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Tools and platforms that aid group decision making through deliberate design decisions to improve the likelihood of desired outcomes, such as consensus.
Suggested reading:
- Seeds for Change guide to consensus-based decision making, including benefits, drawbacks, when to use it, and when not to.
- Facilitation tools for meetings and workshops.
- University of Waterloo’s Centre for Teaching Excellence guide to (analog) Group Decision Making.
- Wikipedia has articles about the long history of attempted Decision Support Systems and online deliberation.
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AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAGoogle 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.
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.
Harmonica
Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UKYour virtual facilitator.
AI tools for Decidim
Barcelona, SpainWork 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.
Unanimous AI
San FranciscoUnanimous 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]
Stanford Online Deliberation Platform
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USAThe Online Deliberation Platform is a video discussion platform for groups of 8-15 people.
Policy Synth
Iceland (Ísland)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.
Empurrando Juntas
São PauloFree tool to gather opinions and simplify participation.
deliberAIde
BerlinWe 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.
Meta's Community Forum on Generative AI
Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USAMeta'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
City-Level Decision-Making Tool
Orlando, Florida, USAThe Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.
Decision 21
Prague, CzechiaOnline platform for civic participation
Network-centric resources are people-powered and participatory resources that aim to maximise usage and engagement. They are developed through sharing ownership, enabling contribution and supporting collaboration.
Want to ask your friends where to go friday night or arrange a meeting with co-workers? Create a poll - and get answers in no time.
Participa Podemos
Madrid (Spain)Radically open political party in Madrid with over 500,000 members making decisions on its online platform
This book analyzes how mainstream and new parties are building their digital platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) organizations into the digital world
Doing Better Work Together is an online learning and collaboration event for organisational innovators.
MixOn (previously 빠띠 믹스 / Parti.mx
Republic of South Korea (Hanguk or Namhan)Create a digital public sphere to discuss and decide together
Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions: Catching the Deliberative Wave by OECD
OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, FrancePublic 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.
A Trello board of many collective intelligence tools like Pol.is and Loomio
PolicyKit
United States of America (the)A tool for building and evolving governance in online communities.
A free e-book covering common patterns in open project governance
Discuto
Amtsgasse 13aOnline collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.
Govbase is the most comprehensive database of projects and organizations in online governance.
Free and easy Mobile Voting tool for ANY speaker or teacher.
Maptionnaire Community Engagement Platform
Finland, Helsinki 00100, Fredrikinkatu 55aDigital heart for building cities together
Make.org
FranceExpress your opinion on social issues that matter to you by voting on our consultations. Together – citizens, organizations, companies – let's set our priorities to make a change through concrete actions!
Parti Town Hall
43, Susaek-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Republic of KoreaThe ultimate real-time discussion platform for all-inclusive events and meetings
Civic Action Teams
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)Closing feedback loops and building accountability in communities
@Stake is a digital multiplayer roleplaying game that fosters creativity and empathy in small group deliberation
Ethelo
VancouverEthelo decisions is a web platform or business intelligence tool built to help groups, communities or organization to find effective decisions quickly and fairly.
Sortition Foundation
Cambridge, UKOrganization dedicated to promoting citizens' assemblies
Loomio
Wellington, New ZealandLoomio is a flexible decision-making tool that helps you create a more engaged and collaborative culture, build trust and coordinate action
Civocracy
BerlinCivocracy is fixing the relationship between citizens and their government using digital citizen participation.
Polis
Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaPolis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.
CoBudget
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Cobudget makes it easy for organizations and groups to allocate funds collaboratively and transparently.
Talkto.nyc
New York CityIt's time to forge stronger connections between NYC citizens and city decision makers.
DemocraciaOS
Buenos AiresDemocracyOS is an online space for deliberation and voting on political proposals. The software aims to stimulate better arguments and come to better rulings.
CONSUL DEMOCRACY
AmsterdamOpen source Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
Delib Suite
Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EHMakers of Citizen Space, Dialogue, and Simulator.
Citizen OS
TallinnOpen source platform for collaborative decisions and e-democracy applications.
vTaiwan
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)A public engagement method that invites citizens and stakeholders to come to a consensus together, using a mix of digital tools.
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