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Informational Democracy

A working group of the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science. Informational Democracy publishes provocations, groundings, and reflections on topics such as collective intelligence, the role of AI in democratic systems, attention as a democratic resource, and the infrastructural transformation of the public sphere.

2026

Hunome

Hunome is a collective sensemaking platform and delivers deliberative intelligence.

Finland

Citizens' Track on AI

An initiative to use participatory practice to address the democratic deficit in AI governance, and bring greater alignment with the public interest, agency for communities, and accountability to AI governance.

UK
2026
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Cosmik

Building tools and networks for collective sensemaking

Cambridge, MA
2026

ANTIPARTY

Born from the partygate scandal in the UK, discover how the movement has evolved to challenge the two-party system and dismiss party politics in favour of a more direct, deliberative democracy that empowers citizens

UK

Plurality Institute

The Plurality Institute develops and experiments with plural technologies by convening researchers and collaborators from a range of fields including computer science, political ethics, sociology, and government.

USA

School of Collective Intelligence (SCI)

UM6P School of Collective Intelligence – SCI trains future changemakers to solve complex challenges through interdisciplinary methods, data-driven insights, and collective problem-solving.

Morocco

Interoperable Deliberative Tools (IDT) Cohort

The mission of this research area is to make today’s collective intelligence tools more open, modular, and interoperable, laying the groundwork for a capture-resistant ecosystem of deliberative tooling in which process innovation thrives and local creativity blossoms.

USA

Swarmcheck

Argument mapping software combining collective intelligence and AI

Poland