Projects - Engagement tech

Using Collective Dialogues and AI to Find Common Ground Between Israeli and Palestinian Peacebuilders

United States of America 🇺🇸

Human Computer Interaction article by Andrew Konya, Luke Thorburn, Wasim Almasri, Oded Adomi Leshem, Ariel D. Procaccia, Lisa Schirch, Michiel A. Bakker

Construyendo la Agenda de la IX Cumbre Global de la Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto en España

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Building the Agenda for the 9th Open Government Partnership Global Summit in Spain on Consider.it

Mentimeter

Turn presentations into conversations with interactive polls that engage meetings and classrooms.

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Zesumme Vereinfachen

Luxembourg (Luxembourg, Letzebuerg) 🇱🇺

Bienvenue sur la plateforme officielle dédiée à la simplification administrative participative au Luxembourg.

ThemeFinder

10 Downing Street

ThemeFinder is a topic modelling Python package designed for analysing one-to-many question-answer data (i.e. survey responses, public consultations, etc.).

Consult (GOV.UK)

10 Downing Street

Consult is a machine learning and LLM-powered tool to automate the processing of public consultations.

United Kingdom (government)

کارزار (Karzar)

Tehran

The largest Persian e-petition platform in Iran

Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

Stanford + DeepMind study that used LLMs to simulate people with AI agents based on a 2-hour interview

Google

OpenCouncil

Greece (Ellas, Ellada) 🇬🇷

Demystify local government and enable citizen participation

Dembrane

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱

Let participants record conversations, we transcribe and help you analyse it in minutes..

The Platoniq Foundation designs digital participatory processes and facilitates innovative participation methodologies to help form more democratic societies and organizations, making use of open civic technologies.

People Powered

UrbanistAI

Europe

The platform to reimagine the future of our cities.

Thinkscape

San Francisco

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.

San José Data Usage Protocols & Public Comment initiative

San Jose, CA

Public Comment period for emerging place-based tech deployed in San José

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Dublin City Council Engage platform

Dublin, Ireland

Join the Engage platform to share your thoughts on Dublin City Council projects, policies and plans. A Go Vocal instance.

CD37

Decidim

À Vous La Parole !

Decidim

Decidim, a Technopolitical Network for Participatory Democracy: Philosophy, Practice and Autonomy of a Collective Platform in the Age of Digital Intelligence

Barcelona

Open access book by Xabier E. Barandiaran, Antonio Calleja-López, Arnau Monterde, and Carol Romero

Asociacion de Software Libre Decidim (Decidim Free Software Association)

Barcelona

The Decidim Free Software Association is a democratic association for the governance of the Decidim community.

Decidim

AI tools for Decidim

Barcelona

Work in progress AI integration for the participation platform that allows platform admins to install and configure a spam detection service so that any suspicious content gets reported at the earliest possible step.

Decidim

People Powered Decides

An annual participatory decision-making program where members vote on budgets, policies, and board selections

Decidim

Polis Pilot Netherlands

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱

Developing an API and localized version of Pol.is for the Netherlands. De provincie Zuid-Holland, de provincie Brabant, de provincie Groningen en het Overlegorgaan Fysieke Leefomgeving (onderdeel van Ministerie van I&W) willen bij dragen aan de totstandkoming van een Nederlandse versie van de applicatie Polis

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Pencillabs

Brasília

Somos uma empresa de tecnologia para instituições de impacto social. Mais do que códigos e soluções prontas, trabalhamos com nossos clientes para promover empoderamento tecnológico, gerando aprendizado, independência em seus processos e saltos estratégicos.

Crowdsmart

San Francisco

A guidance system for collaborative problem solving.

Unanimous AI

San Francisco

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]

Active Citizen

Reykjavik

Active Citizen is an open source library, API and UI using various AI technologies aimed at empowering citizens democratically.

Your Priorities

SocietySpeaks.io

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Making Disagreement Useful Again

Stanford Online Deliberation Platform

450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

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

Murmuration.org

United States of America 🇺🇸

Amplifying the Power of Civic Engagement

Policy Synth

Iceland (Ísland) 🇮🇸

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

OpenStad.org

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱

Het open source platform voor digitale participatie-projecten.

Participa gencat

Catalonia (Spain)

Portal de participació ciutadana de la Generalitat de Catalunya. Decidim instance.

Decidim

West Ham and Beckton GPT

London

As well as the broad range of information that the regular AI uses, this modified version has been exposed to a specific set of policies and information to help unlock the power of AI for the new constituency of West Ham and Beckton.

CartoDEBAT

Saint-Etienne, France

Argument and transparency in public debate

Common Good AI

PO Box 880264, San Francisco, CA 94188-0264

Common Good AI is a tech non-profit organization dedicated to building common ground for the common good.

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Community-Centered Planning for Mobility as Social Service

Indiana

The project will establish a workshop to bring community-centered planning to the emerging technology of autonomous vehicles (AV)

MOXY

Washington, DC

A Social Ecosystem connecting Voters, Elected Representatives, Thought Leaders and Authorized Organizations

Localwatch

Athens

Civic tech participatory platform focusing on local level (municipalities). Kάνε ερωτήσεις και προτάσεις στο Δημοτικό Συμβούλιο, οργάνωσε εθελοντικές δράσεις , συνδιαμόρφωσε τον προϋπολογισμό του Δήμου και πάρε μέρος στις διαβουλεύσεις και στην αξιολόγησή του

Civic Echo

Geneva

Civic Echo is a citizen survey tool that provides a simple and inclusive way to diagnose the opinions of a population while making the results available in real time in a transparent way.

Instituto Cidade Democrática

São Paulo

Civil society organization that strengthens democracy through digital listening tools and participatory processes.

Empurrando Juntas

São Paulo

Free tool to gather opinions and simplify participation.

SketchMapTool

The Sketch Map Tool is an easy-to-use tool for participatory sketch mapping through offline collection, digitization and georeferencing of local spatial knowledge. The tool has a variety of applications. For example, do you want to work together with people in a community to map their experience and perception of risk in their neighbourhood in a paper-based format, but still be able to quickly analyse the results digitally? Then, the Sketch Map Tool is exactly what you need!

Using machine learning to help vulnerable tenants in New York City

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Our best-performing model can potentially help TSU find 59% more buildings where tenants face landlord harassment than the current outreach method using the same resources.

housing

One Project

We’re building tools for participatory funding connecting resources directly to community-controlled funds on Common, our digital platform that connects people, organizations, and resources to coordinate and grow economic democracy to global scale.

deliberAIde

Berlin

We are developing an end-to-end platform for in-person, online and hybrid deliberative participation processes, starting with: AI-assistance for defining the process; anonymously transcribing and documenting deliberations; summarization and in-depth analysis; and final reporting.

MyPolis

8 Tv. de São Pedro Lisboa

Creating space to build a democracy for all, through games, children and young people learn about participation and citizenship while they play. We are active in 7 countries: Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, and Mozambique.

MASS LBP

Toronto

We have led more than 50 Reference Panels and Citizens’ Assemblies contributing approximately 71,000 volunteer hours to policy-making in Canada — making MASS internationally recognized for its work in public deliberation.