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.
Democracy .one is a nonprofit "civic social platform" that turns people's civic opinions into structured Polls, Scores, and Ranks, clusters differently-worded expressions of the same position together, and aggregates them into a continuously-updating, comparable measure of public opinion it calls the "Civic Mirror."
Hunome is a collective sensemaking platform and delivers deliberative intelligence.
Chattanooga has launched a pilot with Google's Jigsaw and Change.org called Civic Dialogue, that gathers residents' ideas on parks and transit, then uses "Sensemaking AI" to surface the proposals with the broadest support before a group of residents workshops them into policy.
A Civic Assembly brings together a representative group of residents, selected by lottery, to work through a shared challenge on housing.
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.
A tool to help residents work out and articulate their opinions ahead of joining community deliberation.
Distills large volumes of community input, draws out recurring themes, and ties public decisions back to what residents actually expressed.
issue+design is a non profit providing the Climate Citizen Dialogue program to co-create regional decarbonization policies