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: 58 Transcribed: 58 Category: Democracy Language: en
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Episodes

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Title Published Duration Confidence Keywords
Ryan Koch from the Civic Tech Chat podcast on civic innovation and effective use of AI 2026-08-25 1:03:01 1.00 tech, civic, civic tech, folks, mean
Gianluca Misuraca from Inspiring Futures on AI in the public sector 2026-08-12 49:14 0.99 mean, course, european, technologies, digital
Alvaro Oleart on the instrumentalisation of EU participation processes & limits of AI for democracy 2026-08-04 50:19 1.00 technology, citizen, citizen assemblies, assemblies, mean
Alberto Fernandez Gibaja from International IDEA on Technology and Democracy 2026-07-29 1:00:18 1.00 countries, technology, democracy, data, democratic
Simon Horton on Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and How AI Can Help End War 2026-07-15 52:59 1.00 negotiation, negotiators, israel, process, collaborative
Anthony Zacharzewski from Democratic Society on democratic infrastructure, participation and power 2026-07-08 53:13 1.00 political, participation, democracy, government, parties
Alice Casiraghi on designing regenerative systems, public services, and democratic participation 2026-06-30 52:12 1.00 need, citizens, municipality, milan, assembly
Paolo Spada on participatory budgeting, citizen assemblies, and scaling democratic innovation 2026-06-09 1:20:05 1.00 citizen assembly, assembly, citizen, participatory budgeting, participatory
Antoine Vergne from Missions Publiques on scaling deliberative decision-making and random selection 2026-06-02 1:03:21 0.99 scaling, democratic innovation, innovation, democratic, random selection
Paul Zeitz about permanent citizens' assemblies in the US and using technology to scale it 2026-05-05 45:26 1.00 democracy, citizens, united states, states, united
Ben Nelson on the Minerva Project, reforming higher education and its role for democracy 2026-04-28 50:48 1.00 minerva, education, students, system, able
Cecile Green & Seth Frey on the Commoning Standard and the role of self-governance for democracy 2026-04-21 50:24 1.00 power, share power, share, cecile, skills
Sylvain Le Bon from Startin'blox about Data Spaces, Democracy and Interoperability 2026-04-14 49:43 1.00 data space, data, space, data spaces, democracy
Jorge Lagarto about LabX and human centric design in the public sector 2026-04-10 45:36 1.00 public, services, service, public sector, portugal
Wietse van Ransbeeck about Go Vocal and how to integrate participation into governance 2026-04-01 48:03 1.00 residents, different, city, brussels, participation
Marcello Coppa on the Feel Community, the Govtech Forum and accelerating innovation 2026-03-24 49:26 1.00 public, public system, innovation, public administration, govtech
Stefaan Verhulst about governance, decision-making and how to ask good questions 2026-03-17 45:44 1.00 anyway, alessandro, collective intelligence, data, well
Yuting Jiang on the Agora Citizen Network, Polis and bridging-based algorithms 2026-03-10 42:36 1.00 agora, algorithm, different, data, community
Hélène Landemore about deliberative democracy, citizens' assemblies and the future of democracy 2026-03-03 51:52 1.00 democracy, assembly, assemblies, citizens, mean
Nathan Schneider on protocols, modular politics and the governance of online communities 2026-02-26 46:34 1.00 governance, self governance, online, modular, online spaces
Matt Stempeck on the Civic Tech Field Guide and why projects succeed or fail 2026-01-27 50:49 1.00 civic, tech, civic tech, government, field
Samuel Vance-Law on how digital transformation gives space to governance innovation 2026-01-19 49:34 1.00 governance, blockchain, time, democracy, daos
Cross-podcast dialogue on governance, democracy, and institutional innovation 2026-01-13 1:02:04 1.00 carlo, tools, governance, alessandro, time
Simone Maria Parazzoli about the Agentic State and how algorithms can transform governments 2026-01-06 1:03:58 1.00 agentic, agentic state, mean, state, governments
Marco Cappato & Francesco Vecchi discuss how AI can empower democracy 2025-12-16 54:33 1.00 european, public, data, mean, democracy
Vir Sanghavi about Tilt.vote and how it can improve debates in democracies 2025-12-04 53:08 1.00 tilt, debate, logic, logic score, logical
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, trust, democracy, cryptography
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, citizens, citizen, 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, comments, social, europe
Sonia Bussu about using arts to bring emotions in democratic settings 2025-10-14 41:52 1.00 assemblage, young, democratic, 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, participation factory
Margo Loor about CitizenOS, an open-source, community-based, grassroots decision-making platform 2025-09-01 58:10 1.00 estonia, citizen, civic, idea gathering, mean
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 human, cannot, ally, italy, rector
Andrew Gray about Suffrago and how to use the wisdom of people's voices for politics 2025-08-11 47:33 1.00 united kingdom, kingdom, united, safrago, polis