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.
Cobi
Cobi engages an entire academic community in planning a large-scale conference. Cobi elicits community members' preferences and constraints.
Stig
Stig est une application gratuite qui permet aux citoyens de construire ensemble la volonté générale à l'échelle de la France ainsi qu'à l'échelle locale.
CoBudget
Cobudget makes it easy for organizations and groups to allocate funds collaboratively and transparently.
Consider.it
A web forum that elevates your community's opinions. Civil and organized discussion even when hundreds of stakeholders participate.
Fora
Human-Led + AI-Supported Listening
Liquid
Demo data visualization of an election held with liquid democracy in place
Go Vocal
The only platform you need for meaningful community engagement.
Decidim
Free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations
Grassroot
Grassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobi...
Place Speak
PlaceSpeak is a location-based citizen engagement platform that authenticates the online public participation process through digital credentials and privacy-by-design to build trust.
Your Priorities
Your Priorities is an eDemocracy web application designed by the non profit Citizens Foundation to help groups speak with one voice.
synAthina
Engagement platform by the City of Athens
Loomio
Loomio is a flexible decision-making tool that helps you create a more engaged and collaborative culture, build trust and coordinate action
Polis
Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.
Civocracy
Civocracy is fixing the relationship between citizens and their government using digital citizen participation.
Ethelo
Ethelo decisions is a web platform or business intelligence tool built to help groups, communities or organization to find effective decisions quickly and fairly.
Sortition Foundation
Organization dedicated to promoting citizens' assemblies