Rewiring Democracy Series on The Renovator
Nathan E. Sanders and I are writing a series of essays on real-world examples of democratic technologies for The Renovator. I haven’t been posting the full text on the blog because they’re a bit long, but here are links.
Part 1 is about the Japanese digital democracy party, Team Mirai.
Part 2 is about the Swiss Public AI model, Apertus.
Part 3 is about the civic technologists of Open Knowledge Brazil.
And the new one, Part 4, is about civic AI in Scotland.
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