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Interviews and field notes from people building new forms of democratic practice.
Lukas Salecker discusses deliberAIde and how generative AI can change deliberative democracy. The conversation explores AI-supported facilitation, argument structuring, synthesis, and the risks of using language models in public participation, focusing on how technology can assist deliberation without replacing human judgment.
Geert Lovink discusses democracy and the internet, asking whether digital technologies help or harm public life. The conversation explores platform power, online culture, political communication, and the failures and possibilities of internet-based democracy after decades of experiments, hype, and institutional disappointment.
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.
Artem Zhiganov presents Harmonica as a tool for collective sense-making with generative AI. The conversation explores how groups can map ideas, summarize discussion, and use AI to support governance innovation while preserving human interpretation, shared context, and accountability for collective decisions.
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.
Alessandro Oppo and Carlo Michaelis introduce the Democracy Innovators Podcast and explain its focus on democracy, governance, and technology. The conversation frames the project as a space for learning from practitioners, researchers, and builders experimenting with new forms of participation and democratic innovation.