Democracy Innovators

The Democracy Innovators Podcast is an independent publication launched in February 2025 by Alessandro Oppo and Carlo Michaelis. Society is complex, and technology is evolving rapidly. Today, we use technology extensively in governance, and in the future, it will become even more pervasive in the political sphere. This podcast provides a space to discuss these changes, explore possibilities, and ultimately shape the future together. Our mission is to share insider stories about civic tech by interviewing those working on new forms of participation. We aim to highlight and add value to the incredible projects created by civic hackers. www.democracyinnovators.com

Episodes: 32 Transcribed: 32 Category: Democracy Language: en
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Episodes

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Title Published Duration Confidence Keywords
Bruce Schneier on democracy in the context of cryptography, security, e-voting, AI, power and trust 2025-11-26 44:22 1.00 mean, voting, cryptography, trust, democracy
Tiago Peixoto about the role of collective action in reforming democratic systems 2025-11-19 1:06:03 1.00 participatory, participatory budgeting, budgeting, democracy, mean
Jonathan Moskovic about the future of deliberative citizen participation 2025-11-12 50:49 1.00 assembly, assemblies, citizen, citizens, parliament
Carol Romero & Andrés Pereira de Lucena about Decidim, and why technology is political 2025-10-28 1:07:49 1.00 platform, barcelona, community, different, project
Alex Blaga from Trollwall about using AI to combat toxic content and misinformation on social media 2025-10-24 1:01:40 1.00 democracy, political, social, comments, europe
Sonia Bussu about using arts to bring emotions in democratic settings 2025-10-14 41:52 1.00 assemblage, democratic, young, democracy, power
Graham Wetherall-Grujić of the Innovation in Politics Institute about improving political discourse 2025-10-02 1:09:17 1.00 democracy, platform, power, public, political
Richard Bartlett about Loomio and how horizontal decision-making is different from society's habits 2025-09-24 49:58 1.00 scale, mean, different, consensus, hierarchy
Martín Carcasson about the Center for Public Deliberation and overcoming toxic polarization 2025-09-18 1:09:42 1.00 deliberation, work, polarization, better, together
Tomas Rakos about Participation Factory and why fetishising a single method or tool is a bad idea 2025-09-10 1:00:41 1.00 participation, participatory, projects, work, obviously
Margo Loor about CitizenOS, an open-source, community-based, grassroots decision-making platform 2025-09-01 58:10 1.00 estonia, citizen, civic, mean, time
Daniel Mackisack on setting ambitious political goals and testing new forms of governance in space 2025-08-26 1:02:19 1.00 space, policy, democracy, space sector, political
Guido Saracco about Tecnosofia and the importance of combining humanism and technology in education 2025-08-20 51:56 1.00 cannot, human, ally, italy, education
Andrew Gray about Suffrago and how to use the wisdom of people's voices for politics 2025-08-11 47:33 1.00 kingdom, united kingdom, united, safrago, polis
Magnus Strobel about the Future of Civic Engagement: Inside the Nexus Politics Platform 2025-08-04 58:33 1.00 politicians, guess, citizens, politician, instance
Robert Bjarnason about the Citizens Foundation and how technology supports participatory democracy 2025-07-28 1:00:49 0.99 mean, iceland, idea, society, democracy
Evelien Nieuwenburg about Dembrane ECHO and mirroring insights from large groups' conversations 2025-07-21 56:22 1.00 together, space, dembrain, interoperability, well
Guillaume Saunier & Lucien Langton about how Voca helps to distribute the participatory tool Decidim 2025-07-10 49:34 1.00 voca, civic, switzerland, tech, civic tech
Gianluca Sgueo about gamification and how it has potential to improve participation in democracies 2025-07-06 1:03:04 1.00 time, world bank, game, democracy, participatory
Stephen Boucher about Dreamocracy and how collective creativity solves complex problems in society 2025-06-24 41:39 1.00 intelligence, collective, collective intelligence, creativity, political
Michihito Matsuda about the AI Mayor project and why we need to overcome old democratic systems 2025-06-17 35:10 0.99 politics, human, election, japan, mask
Oliver Klingefjord about the Meaning Alignment Institute and how to bring up wisdom in a collective 2025-06-10 49:10 1.00 values, mean, work, value, meaning
Gareth Farry works with Amnesty international on human rights advocacy using blockchain technology 2025-06-02 1:14:29 0.99 mean, consensus, different, blockchain, amnesty
Tate Berenbaum about Arweave and how a blockchain-based permanent storage impacts governance 2025-05-28 1:11:05 1.00 code, mean, weave, data, time
Bjørn Bedsted about Democracy X, local transitions and global participation 2025-05-21 46:59 0.99 mean, citizen participation, participation, democracy, citizen
Josef Lentsch about the Political Tech Summit and huge potential in digitally assisted democracy 2025-05-12 55:29 1.00 political tech, political, course, tech, politics
Lukas Salecker about deliberAIde and why generative AI makes a difference in deliberative democracy 2025-05-06 1:01:02 1.00 platform, participation, assemblies, political, time
Geert Lovink about Democracy and the Internet. Do internet technologies help or harm? 2025-04-28 1:05:08 1.00 computer, internet, content, media, course
Marcin Woźniak about Swarmcheck and Argument Mapping: How democratic discourse can be more rational 2025-04-22 1:50:54 1.00 intelligence, argument, argument mapping, reasoning, collective
Artem Zhiganov, Harmonica: How to improve collective sense-making with GenAI 2025-04-14 1:09:38 1.00 harmonica, facilitation, conflict resolution, conflict, sense making
Valentin Chaput about Open Source Politics. A decade of digital tools & the next generation 2025-04-07 50:59 1.00 tools, open source, open, tool, source politics
Introducing the democracy innovators podcast: The future of of democracy, governance and technology 2025-03-31 1:15:50 1.00 mean, time, perhaps, democracy, different