Topic dossier · 18 conversations
Civic technology
The tools, platforms and open-source infrastructure built to make democracy work better in practice. Conversations with the people building participation platforms, civic apps and public digital services — including honest discussion of why so many civic tech projects fail, and what separates the ones that last.
Thomas Lorenz on Brief nach Berlin, lowering barriers to participation & open-source civic tech→Olivier Schulbaum on GRID, collective AI & slowing AI in democratic deliberation→Ryan Koch from the Civic Tech Chat podcast on civic innovation and effective use of AI→Kenobit on Mastodon, the Fediverse, and Decentralized Social Networks→Giovanni Di Sotto on electronic voting, security and democratic innovation→Cecile Green & Seth Frey on the Commoning Standard and the role of self-governance for democracy→Sylvain Le Bon from Startin'blox about Data Spaces, Democracy and Interoperability→Marcello Coppa on the Feel Community, the Govtech Forum and accelerating innovation→Massimo Bugani and the Rousseau platform: a democratic experiment→Matt Stempeck on the Civic Tech Field Guide and why projects succeed or fail→Vir Sanghavi about Tilt.vote and how it can improve debates in democracies→Richard Bartlett about Loomio and how horizontal decision-making is different from society's habits→Margo Loor about CitizenOS, an open-source, community-based, grassroots decision-making platform→Magnus Strobel about the Future of Civic Engagement: Inside the Nexus Politics Platform→Evelien Nieuwenburg about Dembrane ECHO and mirroring insights from large groups' conversations→Josef Lentsch about the Political Tech Summit and huge potential in digitally assisted democracy→Marcin Woźniak about Swarmcheck and Argument Mapping: How democratic discourse can be more rational→Valentin Chaput about Open Source Politics. A decade of digital tools & the next generation→