Alessandro Oppo
Host and founder
Builds civic technology, hosts the conversations and keeps the archive. Based in Italy, working across participation tools, open government and the stubborn problem of getting people into a decision.
Independent · Curious · Rigorous
About the podcast
Democracy Innovators is an independent publication exploring democracy, governance and civic technology through conversations with the people doing the work — 68 of them so far, each published with a full transcript you can search, quote and cite to the second.
Mission
Document practical democratic innovation.
We share the experience of civic hackers, public innovators, researchers and reformers developing new forms of participation and collective decision-making. Not commentary about democracy in the abstract, but the specifics: what was built, who used it, what broke, and what would be done differently next time.
Every episode is transcribed and indexed, so the archive answers questions rather than merely storing them. Nothing here is sponsored or placed, and no guest pays or is paid to appear.
The editors
Carlo Michaelis
Producer and Co-Founder
Edits episodes, manages social media, and oversees strategic development. Based in Sweden, Carlo manages software development and researches how democratic governance can become scalable and efficient.
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