Building tools and networks for collective sensemaking

• Artificial Intelligence
• Decentralization
• Social networks

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

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns
• Collective intelligence

In our democracy, how can AI enhance our engagement in society, keep the government in check and improve the function of democratic processes?

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Governance of AI

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.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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

• Academia
• Collective intelligence

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.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Collective intelligence

Argument mapping software combining collective intelligence and AI

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

Gain insights from real-time conversations in less than one hour. No matter how many people.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

The platform to reimagine the future of our cities.

• city
• apps
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Thinkscape® is an AI-powered platform that enables large networked groups (up to 400 people) to hold productive real-time conversations that optimize group insights and amplify collective intelligence.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Collective intelligence

The AI4CI Hub’s Rapid Response Fund offers an exciting opportunity for small-scale, high-impact projects that unite academic and non-academic partners from across the UK. This fund is designed to support collaboration on AI for Collective Intelligence research, with the potential to achieve concrete outcomes that pave the way for more significant research activities.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Collective intelligence

The AI4CI Hub is a UKRI National AI Research Hub involving universities from each of the UK’s four constituent nations and over forty initial stakeholder partners from across academia, government, charities and industry.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Collective intelligence

Unanimous AI develops Swarm® & Swarm AI® technology that amplifies human intelligence, empowering groups to optimize their collective knowledge, wisdom, and intuition by forming real-time AI systems [plus Thinkscape and Mindmix]

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Crowdsourcing

The Online Deliberation Platform is a video discussion platform for groups of 8-15 people.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Policy Synth is an open-source TypeScript library developed by the Citizens Foundation to facilitate the creation of multi-scale AI agent logic flows, APIs, and real-time web applications.

• ChatGPT

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

Free tool to gather opinions and simplify participation.

• Telegram
• WhatsApp

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

The Society Library is a 501(c)3 U.S. collective intelligence nonprofit working on knowledge systems and digital public infrastructure to make "big data democracy" possible in the 21st century.

• Participatory democracy
• Collective intelligence

Vetted methods, key principles, inspiring stories and experts from around the world

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Playbooks and design principles
• Collective intelligence

Mapping the thinking tool landscape with collective intelligence.

• Adjacent Fields
• Decentralization
• Report cards and audits

Our mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

A Trello board of many collective intelligence tools like Pol.is and Loomio

• Participatory democracy
• Civic tech catalogs
• Group decision making

Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.

• ChatGPT

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

The Centre for Collective Intelligence Design will explore how human and machine intelligence can be combined to make the most of our collective knowledge and develop innovative and effective solutions to social challenges.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

CivicWise is an international distributed and open network that promotes citizen engagement, developing concrete actions and projects based on collective intelligence, civic innovation and open design.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

A compilation of reflections, tools and methodologies with the capacity to program and activate Collective Intelligence processes with impact on the Territory.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

bluenove is a technology and consulting company that pioneers massive collective intelligence and is actively committed to civic tech. They operate the Assembl collective intelligence platform.

• Association Civic Tech Europe

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

The 5th Edition of the Collective Intelligence Conference CI is the fifth annual interdisciplinary conference dedicated to advancing our understanding of collective intelligence and the workings of groups.

• Conferences
• Collective intelligence

DecidimFest is an intense 3-day program of activities devoted to the Decidim project, participatory democracy and open source tools for collective intelligence in the era of Global Democracy.

• Decidim

• The Tech
• The People
• Participatory democracy