Group decision making
Tools and platforms that aid group decision making through deliberate design decisions to improve the likelihood of desired outcomes, such as consensus.
Suggested reading:
- Seeds for Change guide to consensus-based decision making, including benefits, drawbacks, when to use it, and when not to.
- Facilitation tools for meetings and workshops.
- University of Waterloo’s Centre for Teaching Excellence guide to (analog) Group Decision Making.
- Wikipedia has articles about the long history of attempted Decision Support Systems and online deliberation.
Small Hassles Court
Small Hassles Court is a digital game where players practice different approaches to interpersonal conflict resolution and self-governance.
Sociocracy For All
We help organizations, communities, workplaces, and collectives learn sociocracy — a decentralized way of organizing that makes decision-making more equitable, efficient, and transparent.
CONSUL DEMOCRACY
The most complete citizen participation tool for an open, transparent and democratic government.
Deliberation.io
Facilitating large-scale, open dialogues between citizens to strengthen collective decision-making.
Swarmcheck
Argument mapping software combining collective intelligence and AI
geo.pol.is
Public opinion infrastructure for cities
Frankly
Frankly™ is an open source online video-based discourse platform designed to facilitate constructive dialogue and collaborative decision-making across and within diverse groups.
PSi
Gain insights from real-time conversations in less than one hour. No matter how many people.
Agora Citizen Network
Where citizens converge to exchange and debate ideas. Let’s turn our differences into progress, rather than conflict.
AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation (Habermas Machine)
Google DeepMind and Stanford researchers built the "Habermas Machine" and found that AI mediators generated more palatable summary statements of the discussions, as rated by participants, than human-w...
Softening Online Extremes Using Network Engineering
Online Technology as a Pathway for Citizen Deliberation and Depolarization
This article proposes, and presents results from, an online technology platform and a methodology, which can help depolarize sectors of society, with the specific application to the current divisive p...
Harmonica
Your virtual facilitator.
AI tools for Decidim
Work in progress AI integration for the participation platform that allows platform admins to install and configure a spam detection service so that any suspicious content gets reported at the earlies...
Unanimous AI
Unanimous AI develops Swarm® & Swarm AI® technology that amplifies human intelligence, empowering groups to optimize their collective knowledge, wisdom, and intuition by forming real-time AI systems [...
Stanford Online Deliberation Platform
The Online Deliberation Platform is a video discussion platform for groups of 8-15 people.
Policy Synth
Policy Synth is an open-source TypeScript library developed by the Citizens Foundation to facilitate the creation of multi-scale AI agent logic flows, APIs, and real-time web applications.
Common Good AI
Common Good AI is a tech non-profit organization dedicated to building common ground for the common good.
Empurrando Juntas
Free tool to gather opinions and simplify participation.
deliberAIde
We are developing an end-to-end platform for in-person, online and hybrid deliberative participation processes, starting with: AI-assistance for defining the process; anonymously transcribing and docu...
Meta's Community Forum on Generative AI
Meta's "Community Forums bring people together to discuss tough issues, consider hard choices and share recommendations for improving people’s experiences across our apps" using Stanford's deliberativ...
City-Level Decision-Making Tool
The Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.
Network-Centric Resources
Network-centric resources are people-powered and participatory resources that aim to maximise usage and engagement. They are developed through sharing ownership, enabling contribution and supporting c...
MobPoll
Quick poll creation tool
StrawPoll
Want to ask your friends where to go friday night or arrange a meeting with co-workers? Create a poll - and get answers in no time.
Decisive Team
Fast group decision-making.
Kosningakerfi Pírata
Digital participation platform for the Icelandic Pirate party
Participa Podemos
Radically open political party in Madrid with over 500,000 members making decisions on its online platform
Digital Parties: The Challenges of Online Organisation and Participation
This book analyzes how mainstream and new parties are building their digital platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) organizations into the digital world
Doing Better Work Together
Doing Better Work Together is an online learning and collaboration event for organisational innovators.
MixOn (previously 빠띠 믹스 / Parti.mx
Create a digital public sphere to discuss and decide together
Collective Intelligence Tools Trello
A Trello board of many collective intelligence tools like Pol.is and Loomio
Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions: Catching the Deliberative Wave by OECD
Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging fro...
Community Rules: Simple Templates for Great Online Communities
A free e-book covering common patterns in open project governance
PolicyKit
A tool for building and evolving governance in online communities.
Loomio Cooperative Limited
Parent company of the Loomio tool
Discuto
Online collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.
Govbase
Govbase is the most comprehensive database of projects and organizations in online governance.
VoxVote
Free and easy Mobile Voting tool for ANY speaker or teacher.
Lemejs.lv
Latvian survey + group decision-making tool
Maptionnaire Community Engagement Platform
Stop Guessing. Start Community Mapping.
Make.org
Express your opinion on social issues that matter to you by voting on our consultations. Together – citizens, organizations, companies – let's set our priorities to make a change through concrete acti...
Parti Town Hall
The ultimate real-time discussion platform for all-inclusive events and meetings
@stake
@Stake is a digital multiplayer roleplaying game that fosters creativity and empathy in small group deliberation
Civic Action Teams
Closing feedback loops and building accountability in communities
DemocraciaOS
DemocracyOS is an online space for deliberation and voting on political proposals. The software aims to stimulate better arguments and come to better rulings.
Delib Suite
Makers of Citizen Space, Dialogue, and Simulator.
LiquidFeedback
Decisions made easy.
vTaiwan
A public engagement method that invites citizens and stakeholders to come to a consensus together, using a mix of digital tools.
Citizen OS
Open source platform for collaborative decisions and e-democracy applications.