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

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia

Partagez vos opinions et construisons ensemble notre avenir.

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

This course uniquely combines the critical lens of art with the innovation framework of DesignX, promoting introspection and thoughtful deliberation before diving into design interventions.

• Academia
• Courses
• Design

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.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

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.

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Civic and social impact companies

we’re a highly experienced team of facilitators and community engagement practitioners specialising in high influence and deliberative engagement

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Civic and social impact companies

Citizen assembly model

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Deliberation
• Democratic Innovations

Meta's "Community Forums bring people together to discuss tough issues, consider hard choices and share recommendations for improving people’s experiences across our apps" using Stanford's deliberative polling method

• Facebook

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Group decision making

Augmenting participation, co-creation, trust and transparency in Deliberative Democracy at all scales

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Deliberation

We seek to make democracy more deliberative – to empower people to talk across differences, find common ground, and build political change for the public good.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Deliberation

Bringing together 50 members of the UK public to deliberate on the use of biometrics technologies like facial recognition.

• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech
• Digital security and privacy

The Deliberative Democracy Lab (formerly the Center for Deliberative Democracy), housed within the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, is devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliberative Polling®.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Surveys & polling

The OECD's 700+ case studies of citizen juries, councils, assemblies, and more

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.  

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Deliberation

Talk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters.

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Next-generation engagement tools for 21st century democracy.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

The Deliberative Democracy Digest publishes a roundup of recent developments in the theory and practice of deliberative democracy. It is the companion piece of the academic publication Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly Journal of Public Deliberation).

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

The Center for News, Technology & Innovation will provide issue primers with research and legislative activity from around the world and host deliberative discussions among thought leaders in journalism, technology, and policy.

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Journalism

O coletivo delibera trabalha com uma forma inédita e democrática de atuação da sociedade nas decisões de pautas políticas do país, de comunidades, de cidades e até mesmo de bairros.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Deliberation

A report for lawmakers, governments and policymakers at national and European level, 2023

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Fieldwide resources

A research article in the Journal of Deliberative Democracy by Espen Leirset

• Academia
• Communicating with the people
• Peer-reviewed research

Academic center at the University of Canberra, Australia and publisher of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Deliberation

The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy.

• methodology
• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Deliberation

Book edited By Baogang He, Michael Breen, James Fishkin (2021)

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Deliberation

A magazine established to provide people working in politics and the industry of Democracy Technologies with in-depth information about new developments and technologies in the field of digital participation and deliberation, electronic voting, and other digital tools that improve political organisations.

• Learn about civic tech
• Digital transformation
• News and blogs

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making
• Deliberation

Dialogue is a digital platform for building consensus via ideas, comments and ratings in a shared space. Manage closed conversations with defined groups of stakeholders, or open up a public debate.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

The Disinfo Defense League (DDL) is a distributed national network of organizers, researchers and disinformation experts disrupting online racialized disinformation infrastructure and campaigns that deliberately target Black, Latinx, Asian American/Pacific Islander and other communities of color.

• racial equity
• Latinx

• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Deliberation

@Stake is a digital multiplayer roleplaying game that fosters creativity and empathy in small group deliberation

• Games and gamification
• Group decision making
• Deliberation

Your Priorities is an eDemocracy web application designed by the non profit Citizens Foundation to help groups speak with one voice.

• Your Priorities

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Makers of Citizen Space, Dialogue, and Simulator.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Public engagement has never been easier

• Participatory budgeting
• Budget explorers
• Deliberation

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

Holopolis HiFi uses the High Fidelity VR platform to create a virtual commons. It imagines a far future in which we can all connect to and immerse in public policy deliberation anytime we choose. This may be h…

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Deliberation

DemocracyOS is an online space for deliberation and voting on political proposals. The software aims to stimulate better arguments and come to better rulings.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech