Projects - Participatory democracy

Leveraging AI for Democracy: Civic Innovation on the New Digital Playing Field

1025 F Street NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20004

3 essays by Beth Kerley, Carl Miller, and Fernanda Campagnucci outline possible paths toward a prodemocratic vision for AI

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Empurrando Juntas

Brazil (Brasil)

Free tool to gather opinions and simplify participation.

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.

Communiti Labs

Melbourne VIC, Australia

Communiti Labs’ AI-powered data analytics allow project teams to collate insights across all channels and convert them into actionable strategies.

Converlens

Melbourne VIC, Australia

Discover the modern engagement platform powered by natural language AI to help you gather feedback, manage your data and understand what is being said.

Parla

Berlin

Dieser Prototyp durchsucht die Schriftlichen Anfragen und die Hauptausschussvorgänge ("Rote Nummern") der Wahlperiode 19 des Berliner Abgeordnetenhauses und erstellt anhand eines Large Language Models Vorlagen für die Beantwortung der gestellten Frage.

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.

AI • Objectives • Institute

The AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core, enabled by broad public input and scalable cooperation.

Speakeasy.ai

Speakeasy AI is a SaaS company building end-to-end tools for better conversations.

Artificial Intelligence for the Legislative Branch

Washington, DC

POPVOX Foundation is working with Demand Progress and the Foundation for American Innovation (formerly the Lincoln Network) to facilitate information-sharing and best practices for the testing, deployment and oversight of automated technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs) in the legislative branch.

Danes je nov dan

Ljubljana

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

Artificial Intelligence in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust

A collection of essays edited by Ana Brandusescu and Jess Reia featuring essays from participants of the AI in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust symposium that took place remotely on February 10, 2022.

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Cortico

Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue

Your Priorities applies AI

Reykjavík, Iceland

Empowering citizens democratically with Artificial Intelligence

Polis

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Polis 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.

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Insights

Washington, DC

Civic engagement tool, powered by algorithms

Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform