Projects - Deliberation

DECID (DÉlibération Collective d’Initiatives Démocratiques)

Partagez vos opinions et construisons ensemble notre avenir.

Transversal Design for Social Impact

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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.

deliberAIde

Berlin

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.

MosaicLab

Melbourne VIC, Australia

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

MASS LBP

Toronto

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.

Delibera Brasil

Brazil (Brasil)

Citizen assembly model

Orbis Project

Milan

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

Meta's Community Forum on Generative AI

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA

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

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Ohio State Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA)

Columbus, OH, USA

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.

The Citizens’ Biometrics Council

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

Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab

450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

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®.

OECD Deliberative Democracy Database (2023)

OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, France

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

U.S. Public Assembly on High Risk Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Syracuse, NY

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.

Talk to the City

San Francisco

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.

Delib Citizen Space

Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH

Next-generation engagement tools for 21st century democracy.

Deliberative Democracy Digest

University of Canberra

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).

Center for News, Technology & Innovation

United States of America (the)

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.

coletivo delibera

Brazil (Brasil)

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.

Democracy Technologies in Europe Online Participation, Deliberation and Voting

Vienna

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

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Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance

University of Canberra

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

Journal of Deliberative Democracy (previously the Journal of Public Deliberation)

University of Canberra

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.

Do Open Meetings Affect Deliberation? A Comparative Study of Political Meetings In Two Institutional Settings

Norway (Norge, Noreg)

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

Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy

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

Deliberative Democracy in Asia

China (Zhong Guo)

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

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Democracy Technologies

Vienna

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.

Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions: Catching the Deliberative Wave by OECD

OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, France

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.

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Delib Dialogue

Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH

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.

Disinfo Defense League

Media Democracy Fund, Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

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.