• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research

This article proposes, and presents results from, an online technology platform and a methodology, which can help depolarize sectors of society, with the specific application to the current divisive post-war landscape within Colombia.

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research

Google DeepMind and Stanford researchers built the "Habermas Machine" and found that AI mediators generated more palatable summary statements of the discussions, as rated by participants, than human-written summaries, while still representing minority views in the final version.

• Google

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research

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

• Google

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research

"Google can turn your Discover feed into an AI-generated podcast" - The Verge

• Google

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

In the Democratic AI series, Simon and Yung-Hsuan guide the audience to explore how various AI tools can foster healthy democratic deliberation and collective decision-making.

• Newspeak

• Artificial Intelligence
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

AI-powered insights to help you find out what the f(ed) the US government is doing

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

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

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

Dokopalsya! (which playfully means "got to the bottom of it" in Russian), leverages large language models to serve as a rapid fact-checking assistant in Russian. When users share claims or news snippets, the bot identifies key assertions and checks them against reliable sources, providing evidence-based verification with links to authoritative references.

• Telegram

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

"Naskvoz" (meaning "seeing through" in Russian), analyzes news texts for emotional manipulation techniques and propaganda markers.

• Telegram

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements and build long-term power among the people and communities that AI is leaving behind.

• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

The platform to reimagine the future of our cities.

• cities
• apps

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Impulsgeber für die digitale Gesellschaft

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data governance
• Civil society research outfits

Findet es im Kartenspiel KI-Kompass heraus! Hier schlüpft ihr in die Rolle von ultimativen KI-Expert*innen und helft Bürger*innen bei ihren Anfragen.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Games and gamification
• Physical games

Line chatbot to help people interact with and understand Tainan City Council data. Users can ask in Mandarin, Taiwanese, English or by voice.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

• IBM Watsonx

• Artificial Intelligence
• Natural Language Processing

This book, developed by Bússola Tech in partnership with the Organization of American States (OAS), the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), and the Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil),...guide[s] an exploration of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can significantly enhance parliamentary services.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Books

Community-led AI Audits: Making AI Systems Fair & Accountable

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

Your virtual facilitator.

• Newspeak

• Artificial Intelligence
• Group decision making
• Meeting tech

Digital Infrastructure for Governance and Inclusive Transformation (DIGIT) is an open-source, scalable, interoperable platform for responsive public service delivery and good governance.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital Public Infrastructure

AI Digital Public Goods for Justice in India

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Justice tech

The AI4CI Hub is a UKRI National AI Research Hub involving universities from each of the UK’s four constituent nations and over forty initial stakeholder partners from across academia, government, charities and industry.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Collective intelligence

The AI4CI Hub’s Rapid Response Fund offers an exciting opportunity for small-scale, high-impact projects that unite academic and non-academic partners from across the UK. This fund is designed to support collaboration on AI for Collective Intelligence research, with the potential to achieve concrete outcomes that pave the way for more significant research activities.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Collective intelligence

An AI Inventory is an important transparency mechanism that enables the City of San José to meaningfully communicate the AI systems that it uses to its residents. In January 2023, the DPO began maintaining an AI Inventory in an effort to increase transparency of the technological tools used by the City.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Registers of government AI

The GovAI Coalition went public...publishing a set of deliverables any organization could use to help jumpstart their agency with responsible AI practices.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The OASI Register compiles information about algorithms with the aim of increasing public awareness and providing the necessary knowledge for an informed public conversation, and of making possible for experts and the public to search and analyse the use and social impact of algorithmic systems across the world.

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing
• Algorithmic transparency

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]

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Crowdsourcing

How AI-powered tenant screening hurts renters: Research paper by TechEquity Collaborative

• housing
• landlord
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

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

• Your Priorities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

Where Conversations Shape Our Future

• Polis
• ChatGPT
• Claude

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic forums

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

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia

SSARE serves as an efficient and scalable resource for semantic search and article recommendations, catering primarily to political news data.

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis

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

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Group decision making

US federal website launched by the Biden Administration

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Policy explainers

Tracking AI legislation across all 50 US states as of January 2024

• state

• Artificial Intelligence
• Policy

Apply for a 15% discount for non-profits.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech

The US federal government is rapidly hiring talent to build and govern AI to fulfill the priorities set forth by the Biden-Harris Administration.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech talent

In Spring 2024, NCSL surveyed eight legislative staffing groups about their use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools for legislative work.

• state

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

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.

• local
• ChatGPT

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Bots for Slack, Discord, Google Chat, and Microsoft Teams. You will tell these bots which cases to follow, and you'll get updates for those cases right in your chat app.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Access to laws

We use satellites, other remote sensing techniques, and artificial intelligence to deliver a detailed look at global emissions that gets even better over time.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Satellites

Faster, market-informed hiring for govs

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Find a job or hire someone

• guides
• Newspeak

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech

An open platform for training, serving, and evaluating large language models. Release repo for Vicuna and Chatbot Arena.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI

OpenLLaMA, a permissively licensed open source reproduction of Meta AI’s LLaMA 7B trained on the RedPajama dataset

• commercial
• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI

The OSAID offers a standard by which community-led, open and public evaluations will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source AI. This first stable version of the OSAID is the result of multiple years of research and collaboration, an international roadshow of workshops, and a year-long co-design process led by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), globally recognized by individuals, companies and public institutions as the authority that defines Open Source.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• Open source AI

Making Generative AI Models Accessible

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI

Comprehensive database tracking the use of AI systems in the Slovenian public sector.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

AI-generated election information hub

• US Election 2024
• 2024 elections

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections