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Interviews and field notes from people building new forms of democratic practice.
Paolo Spada is a political scientist at the University of Southampton working on participatory budgeting, citizen assemblies, and democratic innovation. In this episode, we talk about feedback loops, scaling participation, political parties, online deliberation, and why democratic innovation needs s
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Sorry for the pronunciation and thank you for your time. Antoine (00:08) No problem. Alessandro Oppo (00:10) And I was reading the description on your LinkedIn profile and I like the phrase like, "Bringing citizens into global policy? Working on it." So, I mean, you are working at Missions Publi
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Giovanni Di Sotto is the CEO and founder of Multicast, a company specialized in electronic voting, digital governance, and assembly management. In this conversation with Alessandro Oppo, we discuss security, usability, digital identity, institutional transparency, digital divide, and the possible us
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⁓ Thank you for your time. Paul Zeitz (00:15) to be here with you, Alessandra. Alessandro Oppo (00:17) And as I said before, you're doing many things related to democracy and society and I wonder how everything started. Paul Zeitz (00:30) Yes, am a thanks Alexander. Really great to be here. ⁓ I feel
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Alessandro Oppo (00:00) Welcome to another episode of the Democracy Innovator Podcast and our guest of today is Ben Nelson. So welcome Ben and thank you for your time. Ben Nelson (00:08) The question is, is here? Alessandro Oppo (00:10) You are working on the Minerva project, And also the Minerva University. Would...
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So thank you both for your time. You're working on the economy standard, right? ⁓ So would you like to tell us something about it? Seth Frey (00:26) Go ahead, Cecile. Cecile Green (00:28) Yeah. Yeah, thank you. It's a delight to be here. And I guess a short summary of the commoning
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Alessandro Oppo (00:00) Welcome to another episode of the Democracy Innovator podcast. My name is Alessandro Appu and our guest of today is Silveon Leborn. So welcome Silveon and thank you for your time. Sylvain (00:13) Thanks. Thanks for having me. Alessandro Oppo (00:14) And you're working at Starkey Block,...
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Thank you for your time. Jorge (00:09) Thank you for the invitation. Alessandro Oppo (00:12) and you're working at Lab X, And you're also directing it? yeah, would you like to tell us something more about what is happening at Lab X? Jorge (00:19) Yes, love it. Yeah, sure. So LabX is the Innovation D
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Alessandro Oppo (00:00) Welcome to another episode of the Democracy Innovator Podcast and our guest of today is Witze von Rasbich. Thank you for your time and for being here. Thanks for having me. And I mean, you're working on GoVocal, right? And ⁓ yeah, how did it start? If you would like to tell us something....
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Alessandro Oppo (00:03) Welcome to another episode of the Democracy Innovator Podcast and our guest of today is Marcello Coppa. So thank you for your time and for being here. Marcello Coppa (00:12) Thank you, Alessandro. Thank you for hosting me. It's a pleasure. Alessandro Oppo (00:15) And as a first question I'd...
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Donate on PayPal Automatic transcription, it can have errors. Alessandro Oppo (00:00) Welcome to another episode of the Democracy Innovator Podcast and our guest of today is Stefan Fairholst. So, thank you for your time....
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Donate on PayPal Automatic transcription, it may have errors. Alessandro Oppo (00:00) Welcome to another episode of the Democracy Innovator Podcast and our guest of today is Yuting Zhang from Agora Citizen Network. So th...
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Donate on PayPal Automatic transcription, it can contain errors. Alessandro Oppo (00:00) welcome to another episode of the Democracy Innovator podcast and our guest of today is Ellen Landemore. ⁓ Thank you for your time....
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Donate on PayPal Related article: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/02/constitutional-agents-for-online-governance/ Automatic transcription, there could be errors. Alessandro Oppo (00:00) Welcome to another episode of th...
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Donate on PayPal Automatic transcription and translation, it can have errors. The original italian transcription is after the English one. [0:00] Alessandro Oppo: welcome to another episode of the Democracy Innovators po...
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https://youtu.be/jQ-PZUNkNfg Automatic transcription, it may contain errors Alessandro Oppo (00:02) Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovator podcast and our guest of today is Matt Stempek. And you're working on ...
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Donate on PayPal Automatic Transcription: it could contain errors Alessandro (00:00) Welcome on another episode of Democracy Innovator Podcast and our guest of today is Samuel Vans Lowe. So welcome Samuel and thank Samue...
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Donate on PayPal Automatic transcription, it could contain errors. [0:01] Eugene: today is december 11 and i'm very excited for the conversation we are having today it's a little podcast crossover livestream action we go...
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https://youtu.be/q1rJjjtRPC8 Automatic transcription, there could be errors. Alessandro Oppo (00:00) Welcome to another episode of the Democracy Innovator podcast. Today’s guest is Simone Maria Parazzoli. Thank you for y...
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Donate on PayPal Automatic transcription, it can contain errors: Alessandro Oppo: Welcome on another episode of Democracy Innovator Podcast and our guests of today are Marco Cappato and Francesco Vecchi and thank you for...
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Donate on PayPal Automatic transcription, it can contain errors: Alessandro Oppo: Welcome on another episode of Democracy Innovator Podcast and our guest of today is Vir Sangavi. Is it right the pronunciation? Vir Sangav...
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Donate on PayPal Automatic transcription, it can contain errors: Alessandro Oppo: Welcome on another episode of Democracy Innovator Podcast and our guest of today is Bruce... Bruce Schneier. And thank you for your time. ...
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Donate on PayPal Update 2025-11-28: Tiago has just published a paper that goes into much more detail about the topics he talked about in the episode. Especially if AI is able to translate deliberation into political effe...
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Donate on PayPal Automatic transcription, it could contain errors. welcome on another episode of democracy innovator podcast and our guest of today is jonathan moskovic moskovic is fine you can say whatever thank you for...
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Carol Romero & Andrés Pereira de Lucena about Decidim, a modular open-source participation tool Carol Romero & Andrés Pereira de Lucena about Decidim, and why technology is political
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Alex Blaga from Trollwall about using AI to combat toxic content and misinformation on social media
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Donate on PayPal Automatic Transcription of the interview with Sonia Bussu, it may contain errors. Alessandro Oppo: Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovators Podcast, and our guest today is Sonia Bussu. Thank yo...
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Donate on PayPal Automatic transcription of the interview with Graham Wetherall-Grujić, it may contain errors. Alessandro Oppo: Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovator Podcast. Our guest today is Graham Wethera...
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Donate on PayPal Automatic transcription of the Interview with Richard Bartlett, it may contain errors. Alessandro: Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovator podcast, and our guest today is Richard Bartlett. Than...
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Donate on PayPal Automatic transcription of the interview with Martin Carcasson, it may contains errors. Host: Alessandro Oppo Guest: Martin Carcasson, Director of Colorado State University Center for Public Deliberation...
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Donate on PayPal Interview with Tomas Rakos: automatic transcription, it may contain errors. Alessandro Oppo (00:00): Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovator Podcast, and our guest today is Tomas Rakos. Welcome...
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Donate on PayPal Automatic transcription of the interview with Margo Loor from CitizenOS: there may be errors. Alessandro Oppo: Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovator podcast. Our guest today is Margo Loor fro...
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Automatic transcription of the Interview with Daniel Mackisack: it may contain errors. Alessandro: Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovator Podcast. Our guest today is Daniel Mackisack. Thank you for your time a...
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Donate on PayPal Interview with Guido Saracco: automatic transcription, it may contain errors. Alessandro Oppo: Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovators podcast and our guest today is Guido Saracco. Thank you f...
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Check www.suffrago.org Automatic transcription, it may contains errors. Host (Alessandro): Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovators podcast, and our guest today is Andrew Gray. Thank you for your time and welco...
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Automatic transcription, it may contain errors. Donate on PayPal Alessandro: Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovators Podcast. Our guest today is Magnus Strobel. My guest is working on Nexus Politics. Thank you...
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Automatic transcription, there may be errors. Host: Alessandro Oppo Guest: Robert Bjarnason, Co-founder of the Citizen Foundation Alessandro Oppo: Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovator podcast. Our guest toda...
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Automatic transcription, there may be errors. Alessandro: Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovator Podcast, and our guest today is Evelien Nieuwenburg. So thank you for your time. Evelien: Yes, thank you so much...
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Interview with Lucien Langton and Guillaume Saunier Donate on PayPal Automatic Transcription, it may contain errors. Alessandro Oppo: Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovators Podcast. Our guests today are Guill...
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Automatic transcription, it may contain errors. Alessandro: Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovators Podcast. Our guest today is Gianluca Sgueo. Thank you for being here and for your time. Gianluca: Thank you v...
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Donate on PayPal Interview with Stephen Boucher - Democracy Innovators Podcast Disclaimer: This is an automatic transcription and may contain errors. Host: Alessandro Oppo Guest: Stephen Boucher Alessandro: Welcome to an...
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Automatic transcription of the interview with Michihito Matsuda - it may contain errors Host: Alessandro Oppo Guest: Michihito Matsuda (AI Party Japan) Donate on PayPal Alessandro: Welcome to another episode of Democracy...
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Interview with Oliver Klingefjord Note: This is an automatic transcription of an interview conducted by Alessandro Oppo with Oliver Klingefjord. There may be errors in the transcription. Alessandro Oppo: Welcome to anoth...
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https://youtu.be/GeWFtNJWQHg Interview Transcription: Gareth Farry on Democracy Innovators Podcast Note: This is an automatic transcription and may contain errors. Host: Alessandro Oppo Guest: Gareth Farry Alessandro: We...
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Automatic Transcription, it can contain errors. Alessandro Oppo (Interviewer): Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovators podcast. Our guest today is Tate Berenbaum. Tate Berenbaum: Thank you for having me, Alex....
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Automatic Transcription, it can contains errors. Introduction to Democracy X Alessandro Oppo: Welcome to another episode of Democracy Narrators podcast. Our guest today is Bjørn Bedsted—sorry for any pronunciation errors...
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Interview with Josef Lentsch by Alessandro Oppo Note: This is an automatic transcription and may contain errors. Alessandro Oppo: So welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovator. I'm Alessandro Oppo, and our guest t...
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Automatic Transcription: Interview with Lukas Salecker, Co-founder and CEO of deliberAIde Alessandro Oppo: Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovators Podcast. Our guest today is Lukas Salecker, co-founder and CEO...
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https://youtu.be/lsM6mQdWiCQ Geert Lovink - WikipediaWikimedia Foundation, Inc.Contributors to Wikimedia projectsDonate on PayPal Automatic transcription: Alessandro Oppo: Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovato...
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NOTE: Because of some network problems, I had to repeat some questions. I had to cut the video a couple of times: to make it comprehensible, I've inserted a "beep" sound, to make it clear that is not Marcin that is repea...
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Harmonica Session https://app.harmonica.chat/chat?s=hst_7df5646e1e3a AI made transcription: Alessandro Oppo: We are here with Artem Zhiganov from Harmonica. Today, we’ll talk about Harmonica and governance innovation in ...
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Full Transcription of the Interview between Alessandro Oppo and Valentin Chaput Introduction Alessandro Oppo: Welcome to this episode of Democracy in a Way. Today, we are here with Valentin Chaput from Open Source Politi...
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Transcript of the Conversation Between Alessandro Oppo and Carlo Michaelis on the Democracy Innovators Podcast Introduction Alessandro Oppo welcomes listeners to what might be the first episode of the Democracy Innovator...
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This is Democracy Innovators Podcast, a brand new site by Alex Oppo that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and rece...
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