The civic archive

Researchers, public innovators and builders sharing practical knowledge about democratic change.

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Alex Blaga

Alex Blaga joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Alex Blaga from Trollwall about using AI to combat toxic content and misinformation on social media.

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Andres Pereira de Lucena

Andres Pereira de Lucena joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Carol Romero & Andrés Pereira de Lucena about Decidim, and why technology is political.

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Andrew Gray

Andrew Gray joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Suffrago and how to use the wisdom of people's voices for politics.

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Antoine Vergne

Antoine Vergne joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Antoine Vergne from Missions Publiques on scaling deliberative decision-making and random selection.

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Artem Zhiganov

Artem Zhiganov joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about How to improve collective sense-making with GenAI.

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Ben Nelson

Ben Nelson joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Ben Nelson on the Minerva Project, reforming higher education and its role for democracy.

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Bjorn Bedsted

Bjorn Bedsted joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Bjørn Bedsted about Democracy X, local transitions and global participation.

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Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about democracy in the context of cryptography, security, e-voting, AI, power and trust.

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Carol Romero

Carol Romero joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Carol Romero & Andrés Pereira de Lucena about Decidim, and why technology is political.

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Cecile Green

Cecile Green joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Cecile Green & Seth Frey on the Commoning Standard and the role of self-governance for democracy.

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Daniel Mackisack

Daniel Mackisack joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about setting ambitious political goals and testing new forms of governance in space.

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Evelien Nieuwenburg

Evelien Nieuwenburg joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Dembrane ECHO and mirroring insights from large groups' conversations.

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Francesco Vecchi

Francesco Vecchi joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Marco Cappato & Francesco Vecchi discuss how AI can empower democracy.

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Gareth Farry

Gareth Farry joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Gareth Farry works with Amnesty international on human rights advocacy using blockchain technology.

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Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Democracy and the Internet. Do internet technologies help or harm?.

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Gianluca Sgueo

Gianluca Sgueo joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about gamification and how it has potential to improve participation in democracies.

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Giovanni Di Sotto

Giovanni Di Sotto joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Giovanni Di Sotto on electronic voting, security and democratic innovation.

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Graham Wetherall-Grujic

Graham Wetherall-Grujic joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Graham Wetherall-Grujić of the Innovation in Politics Institute about improving political discourse.

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Guido Saracco

Guido Saracco joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Tecnosofia and the importance of combining humanism and technology in education.

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Guillaume Saunier

Guillaume Saunier joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Guillaume Saunier & Lucien Langton about how Voca helps to distribute the participatory tool Decidim.

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Helene Landemore

Helene Landemore joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Hélène Landemore about deliberative democracy, citizens' assemblies and the future of democracy.

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Jonathan Moskovic

Jonathan Moskovic joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about the future of deliberative citizen participation.

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Jorge Lagarto

Jorge Lagarto joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Jorge Lagarto about LabX and human centric design in the public sector.

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Josef Lentsch

Josef Lentsch joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about the Political Tech Summit and huge potential in digitally assisted democracy.

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Lucien Langton

Lucien Langton joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Guillaume Saunier & Lucien Langton about how Voca helps to distribute the participatory tool Decidim.

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Lukas Salecker

Lukas Salecker joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about deliberAIde and why generative AI makes a difference in deliberative democracy.

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Magnus Strobel

Magnus Strobel joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Inside the Nexus Politics Platform.

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Marcello Coppa

Marcello Coppa joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Marcello Coppa on the Feel Community, the Govtech Forum and accelerating innovation.

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Marcin Wozniak

Marcin Wozniak joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about How democratic discourse can be more rational.

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Marco Cappato

Marco Cappato joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Marco Cappato & Francesco Vecchi discuss how AI can empower democracy.

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Margo Loor

Margo Loor joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about CitizenOS, an open-source, community-based, grassroots decision-making platform.

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Martin Carcasson

Martin Carcasson joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Martín Carcasson about the Center for Public Deliberation and overcoming toxic polarization.

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Massimo Bugani

Massimo Bugani joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about a democratic experiment.

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Matt Stempeck

Matt Stempeck joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about the Civic Tech Field Guide and why projects succeed or fail.

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Michihito Matsuda

Michihito Matsuda joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about the AI Mayor project and why we need to overcome old democratic systems.

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Nathan Schneider

Nathan Schneider joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about protocols, modular politics and the governance of online communities.

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Oliver Klingefjord

Oliver Klingefjord joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about the Meaning Alignment Institute and how to bring up wisdom in a collective.

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Paolo Spada

Paolo Spada joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Paolo Spada on participatory budgeting, citizen assemblies, and scaling democratic innovation.

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Paul Zeitz

Paul Zeitz joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Paul Zeitz about permanent citizens' assemblies in the US and using technology to scale it.

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Richard Bartlett

Richard Bartlett joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Loomio and how horizontal decision-making is different from society's habits.

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Robert Bjarnason

Robert Bjarnason joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about the Citizens Foundation and how technology supports participatory democracy.

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Samuel Vance-Law

Samuel Vance-Law joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about how digital transformation gives space to governance innovation.

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Seth Frey

Seth Frey joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Cecile Green & Seth Frey on the Commoning Standard and the role of self-governance for democracy.

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Simone Maria Parazzoli

Simone Maria Parazzoli joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about the Agentic State and how algorithms can transform governments.

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Sonia Bussu

Sonia Bussu joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about using arts to bring emotions in democratic settings.

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Stefaan Verhulst

Stefaan Verhulst joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about governance, decision-making and how to ask good questions.

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Stephen Boucher

Stephen Boucher joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Dreamocracy and how collective creativity solves complex problems in society.

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Sylvain Le Bon

Sylvain Le Bon joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Sylvain Le Bon from Startin'blox about Data Spaces, Democracy and Interoperability.

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Tate Berenbaum

Tate Berenbaum joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Arweave and how a blockchain-based permanent storage impacts governance.

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Tiago Peixoto

Tiago Peixoto joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about the role of collective action in reforming democratic systems.

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Tomas Rakos

Tomas Rakos joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Participation Factory and why fetishising a single method or tool is a bad idea.

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Valentin Chaput

Valentin Chaput joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Open Source Politics. A decade of digital tools & the next generation.

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Vir Sanghavi

Vir Sanghavi joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Tilt.vote and how it can improve debates in democracies.

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Wietse van Ransbeeck

Wietse van Ransbeeck joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Wietse van Ransbeeck about Go Vocal and how to integrate participation into governance.

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Yuting Jiang

Yuting Jiang joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about the Agora Citizen Network, Polis and bridging-based algorithms.

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