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Archive · 18 conversations in Civic technology
Interviews and field notes from people building new forms of democratic practice.
Margo Loor discusses CitizenOS as an open-source, community-based platform for grassroots decision-making. The conversation explores digital participation, civic ownership, open-source governance, community needs, and the challenge of building tools that help groups deliberate and decide without becoming dependent on closed political technologies.
Magnus Strobel discusses Nexus Politics and the future of civic engagement. The conversation explores platform design, political participation, community organizing, and the challenge of creating digital spaces where citizens can coordinate, deliberate, and act in ways that connect everyday engagement with democratic institutions.
Evelien Nieuwenburg discusses Dembrane ECHO and the challenge of mirroring insights from large group conversations. The conversation explores listening at scale, AI-supported synthesis, deliberation, facilitation, and how public engagement can produce usable collective intelligence without losing the nuance of individual contributions.
Josef Lentsch discusses the Political Tech Summit and the potential of digitally assisted democracy. The conversation explores political innovation, parties, civic technology, institutional reform, and why democratic renewal requires both new tools and serious attention to the political organizations that connect citizens with power.
Marcin Woźniak discusses Swarmcheck, argument mapping, and ways to make democratic discourse more rational. The conversation explores structured reasoning, collective sense-making, disagreement, and how digital tools can help groups clarify arguments, evaluate claims, and move public debate beyond noise and repetition.
Valentin Chaput reflects on a decade of Open Source Politics and the evolution of digital participation tools. The conversation discusses Decidim, open-source civic technology, institutional adoption, and the next generation of democratic tools needed to connect participation platforms with real political and administrative change.