awesome-polis

Polis Argument Mapping to Guide Policy Decisions. How can large language models enable us to ingest massive streams of unstructured information, incorporate diverse perspectives and distill them into actionable insights that demonstrably align with public opinion?

Analyses Polis data with Vitalik's simplified version of Community Notes algorithm, evaluating for quality and polarization.

Sample reports generated by Talk to the City, an open-source LLM survey tool to improve collective discourse and decision-making by analyzing detailed qualitative responses to questions and generating an easy-to-navigate report based on the input data.

The codebase for generating reports. Talk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters.

Polis export data and perl scripts for g0v.tw conversations, including Talkto.tw

Ansible playbook for deployment of Polis instances.

Google Scholar listings for all academic papers citing the original paper:

An official paper proposing modification to Twitter's Community Notes UI to support deliberative process.

This graudate studies project seemingly attempts to determine if consensus is created over the course of a long-lived Polis conversation.

An official collaborative paper with AnthropicAI, on applying LLMs to Polis outputs and processes.

Paper reflecting on implications of LLMs on democracy, including discussion and participation from experts in deliberation tools like Polis.

This paper offers an analysis of two software programmes specifically designed to facilitate high-quality online deliberation -- Decidim and Polis.

Agora is a Polis-inspired platform that enables citizens, organizations, and governments to engage in meaningful large-scale discussions on social and political issues.

Hawaiʻi Economic Recovery & Resilience (HIERR) is a digital engagement platform wrapping around Polis and providing onboarding materials to solicit resident sentiments on vision and value statements for Hawaii's economic future.

Polis fork run by the UK thinktank Demos.

A pared-down fork of Polis created by the Gov.UK Policy Lab

A polis instance for coordinating the Blacksky community assembly.

A Slovakian fork seeking to build a community around better ways of engaging in divisive conversations.

A more inclusive Bluesky user list, including people who've expressed interest and enthusiasm about Polis, particularly on social media. Best-suited as a pseudo-feed of user posts, via the "Pin to Home" feature.

A more curated Bluesky user list (as a starter pack), including people actively working on Polis & Polis-related projects. Best-suited for mass-following users. (Sync'd with list of same name as much as possible.)

Citizen Collective is a community that spun out of Jon Alexander's book CITIZENS. There is no specific channel for Polis-related interests, but since many people are active in Citizen Assembly pprocesses, there are a high number of people running experiments or eager to discuss. Search to find past convos.

Plurality Insitute was founded by Glen Weyl and Audrey Tang, two big proponents of Polis, and sees Polis-like tools as central to creating more co-operative democracies.

An unofficial Discord server for the Polis User Group (PUG). See PUG entry for details.

RadicalxChange Foundation uses Polis in its work, and has built several projects on comparable technologies. It's founding members are bullish on it's use in democratic processes.

Data exports from select "open data" Polis conversations

Scripts to streamline the running of the pol.is instance used in Policy Lab. Some of these will become features later on.

A guide for those who are thinking about the interaction between techniques for listening at scale and in-person deliberation

The table of contents for an incomplete stub of a currently unpublished Polis book.

Open Source AI for large scale open ended feedback

Examples illustrating how to embed a Polis conversation in another website.