Senior Data Scientist at BuzzFeed in San Francisco // AI content generation ethics and R&D // plotter of pretty charts
https://minimaxir.com
Groundbreaking civic tech and polling platform. VOTE NOW: Should plans for a new Chinese Mega-Embassy in the UK Be Approved? https://suff.ag/Q0FGPH
📊 suffrago.org
Social data scientist with too many questions | Postdoc & data scientist | PhD @EUI
https://laurenleek.eu/
https://laurenleek.substack.com
We're an academic community for Plurality research & technology | Cooperate across differences | DM us your news, research, jobs, grants & fellowships.
plurality.institute
Managed hosting for open-source apps.
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We're the platform for communities, no matter the shape ✨ Use your Guild username as a Bluesky handle and get an AI announcement bot to help with your socials 🦋🤖
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vibe coding is the way. I bootstrapped a remote company before it was cool. Founder @PSPDFKit (exit to Insight). 🏳️🌈
Build AI agents over your documents
Co-Founder at @gainforest.earth; Co-Lead @plresearch.org; XPRIZE winner; WEF davos 50; prev: PhD ETH, MIT, Berkeley daviddao.org
The ACM conference on Conversational User Interfaces
Harnessing social cohesion technology to create digital spaces that foster connection, reduce polarization, and strengthen democracy online and offline.
Cybernetic moral imagineer, tech and data ethicist, philosopher-builder and action researcher living and learning on Bidjigal Country, Australia.
Dreaming up better futures together and making them real.
Website: https://moralimagineer.com
We help organisations to be more human. Kinship Works is a network supporting more human ways of improving our lives together.
For an equitable #postgrowth world 🌿Post Growth Fellowship, Post Growth Alliance, Offers & Need Markets, Free Money Day & more🌍 @postgrowth@mastodon.social
Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, building at Unbreaking.org.
Cofounded the Covid Tracking Project, previously OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Taking action for nature and connecting people with this dramatic upland National Landscape and UNESCO Global Geopark.
By bridging the gap between research and implementation, #ScaleDem ensures that democratic innovations reach those who can use them to foster more inclusive and participatory #governance through a comprehensive #scaling infrastructure.
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We are a global community of sensemakers co-creating a wiser internet that deepens understanding, strengthens connection, and serves collective flourishing.
Web dev @ Orcfax, UX designer, indie researcher, and information architect. Studying patterns, semantics, and sensemaking. ☯️
Austin, TX 🗺️
oscilloscopes, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects.
protocol engineer @bsky.app. formerly archive.org
elsewhere: bnewbold.net / @bnewbold@social.coop
Public Interest Social Networks
Bonfire is built by communities, for communities—rooted in autonomy, mutual care, and collective power. Co-create your […]
🌉 bridged from https://bonfire.cafe/pub/actors/Bonfire on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
Climate data scientist @metoffice specialising in generating interactive websites and bespoke #dataviz. #climate #maps #GIS #mapping #Rstats
Views are my own
Working to bring nature back in North Wales
Gweithio i ddod natur â nôl yng Ngogledd Cymru
www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk
image: Les Binns
Papa of two girls; husband to Alisha Holland; Jew; Founder & Research Lead, Microsoft Research Plural Technology Collaborator; Founder & Chair, Plurality Institute; Founder & Board Member, RadicalxChange Foundation; co-author, Radical Markets and Plurality
LLMs and AI Safety. Assistant Prof @MIT. Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind. CS PhD @MIT. He/him.
www.miba.dev
Design engineer playing with AI and hacky prototypes @githubnext.com
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
📍 London
🌱 maggieappleton.com
Cortico is building a better way to listen.
We use technology to help communities turn small-group conversations into insight and action.
501(c)(3) nonprofit in collaboration with MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication
Open Source Practitioner, bullish on kindness.
https://erlend.sh – about me
@roomy.space – make space
We listen carefully at scale - building open tools and processes for meaningful participation. http://crown-shy.com
First pan-European non-profit promoting mapping, exchange, learning & innovation in #civic #education bottom-up. Running #NECE, the European network for Civic Education. 👥
New_ Public is a nonprofit product studio focused on reimagining community, connection, and conversation online. newpublic.org
prototypes @wikipedia.org
prev @tldraw.com
prev @inkandswitch.com
London
todepond.com
infinite canvas / http://tldraw.com / http://tldraw.dev / https://discord.tldraw.com/bsky
Open Source Pledge is a group of companies with a shared commitment to paying the maintainers of the Open Source software we all consume.
https://opensourcepledge.com
• ex-TechCrunch.
• {Forkable} - A newsletter all about open source: https://forkable.io/
• All pitches: forkable@pm.me
• Anonymous tip-offs @ Signal: PSTC.08
A nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source. #linux #kubernetes #riscv #hyperledger #anuket #openssf #openjs #o3de and more!
Finnish-Australian technologist/humanist/pragmatist. Interested in a lot within a certain spectrum; e.g. AI, aviation, foresight. Post-mortem optimist.
https://transitionlevel.aero/
https://linkedin.com/in/smakelainen
We create digital services that break down barriers to democratic participation, equipping people to take action and drive meaningful change. Subscribe to our updates at http://eepurl.com/gOEVFj
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Permently Temporary #commons #coops #tech #finance #RealDemocracy
Head of Co-operative Development
@Co-operativesUK
Founder of Dandelion @dandelion.events · Writing a book on Technological Metamodernism · Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪 https://stephenreid.net
Your place to find and be found
https://civictech.guide/
Princeton University Press is an independent nonprofit publisher. Our books spark engaging discussions and present bold ideas from leading experts worldwide.
Our organization examines how media and emerging technologies shape democracy. We’re housed at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy, and led by Taylor Owen.
idk tbd \\ marseille \\ pizza \\ grouchy
www.vaughntan.org
Building a studio of practice for founders, entrepreneurs, and builders ~
💥The Project Residency kicks off March 26!
👉 https://playintobeing.com/residency
Advancing the commons. www.Bollier.org. 'Frontiers of Commoning' podcast. Schumacher Center for a New Economics
Director of @SNFAgoraJHU, Professor of PolSci, Director of P3 Lab @JohnsHopkins. Studying organizing, movements, civic engagement, democracy. All views my own.
The Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale advances interdisciplinary research to shape public policy and support democratic deliberation.
My favourite -tions are sorti, collabora, delibera, participa.
An independent multimedia publication by a few
Newspeak House 2024-25 fellow candidates. Covers political technology development and trends. Writing on Substack.
staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Governance program director at Centre for Future Generations | Previously Open Government Partnership & Carnegie Europe | technology ~ democracy ~ music
CFG is an independent think-and-do tank created to help decision-makers anticipate and govern rapid technological change. https://cfg.eu
Bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• blog: https://berjon.com/
• fmr W3C, NYT, ScienceAI, Protocol Labs
• he/him/Ishmael
• Signal robin.77
professor of technology and peace studies, tech ethics and deliberative technology, social justice activist, animal lover, biker, hiker, painter, mother, gardener, earthling, national park lover, photographer, book lover,
recalculating...
🌼 pop.pe
🌳 oakland, ca
CS researcher & musician,
🪿ATProto! Sprezzatura!
@hello.cubes.blue
@atproto.science 🧪
@atproto.berlin 🧔
AI Ecosystem Engineer, CTO @ AI Objectives Institute for humans+planet, convergelady, fullstack ShoggOps, timelines are short — make ceremonial-grade data
https://inclusiveorg.net/ decent tech & cosmolocal community; consent-based self-determination; transformative justice; partnership to dissolve domination culture #opensource #p2p #panarchy #ecojustice #madhyamika #pagan #panentheism
Personal account. #socialwork, PhD student @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @gcsocialwelfare.bsky.social. Read & think about tech ethics, digital literacy, innovation, inequality, & social change. Find refuge & inspiration in #humanities & #openscience.
CEO, AI & Democracy Foundation.
Ensuring democratic capacity can keep pace with AI advances.
Harvard BKC, GovAI
📧 Email: av@aviv.me
➡️ http://aviv.substack.com
https://shoshincollege.org / https://laniakeabooks.org / https://mataroa.blog
Researcher & entrepreneur | Co-founder @cosmik.network | Building @semble.so | collective sensemaking | https://ronentk.me/ | Ecosystem building @atproto.science @cairos.network | Prev- Open Science Fellow @asterainstitute.bsky.social
Social scientist - BlockScience, RMIT University, BlockchainGov
kelsien.github.io
"Knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge." ― de Tocqueville
Prof in computational commons, collective action, and social emergence. Internet as a governance lab. Science towards nescience
enfascination.com/research
I like the beautiful mess of product development.| newsletter: https://cutlefish.substack.com
Independent tech consultant from Hamburg, Germany. Author of "Architecture for Flow", combining #WardleyMapping, #DDD, and #TeamTopologies as a holistic approach to designing and building adaptive, socio-technical systems optimized for flow.
wisdom accelerationist (w/acc) • sensemaking futurist seeking meaning and balance in the meta-crisis • she/any
Mapper. I like ducks, they're fowl but not through choice.
Political scientist @unibremen.bsky.social
CoLead @glocan.bsky.social
CoChair @ecpr.bsky.social's Standing Group on Democratic Innovations
📍Berlin
ECPR is an independent, scholarly association with a mission to advance political science ▪ https://ecpr.eu/ ▪ https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ecpr/ ▪ @ecprtheloop.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in Politics at Glasgow Caledonian University. Research: perinatal mental health & playgroups, community engagement & deliberative democracy, experts & evidence giving
Polisci PhD
/ Managing editor @spsr.bsky.social
/ Postdoc University of St. Gallen
/ Research on political communication and behavior
https://alexgeisler.netlify.app/
Associate Professor in Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Democratic Futures at Southampton University.
Visiting Professor at Democratic Innovations Research Unit, Frankfurt University.
https://rikkidean.com/
Assoc Professor in Public Policy @University of Birmingham #participatorydemocracy #participatoryresearch #democraticinnovations #participatoryarts
All things democracy, open gov & participation, with a sprinkling of climbing, photography & Ipswich Town.
Democracy & Participation Lead at Open Government Partnership, trustee at MySociety, & former exec director at Involve.
Director and founding partner of We Do Democracy. Expert advisor on deliberative democracy and participation.
Co-founder of Democracy Garage, Denmark’s independent development platform for democratic innovation and deliberation.
www.wedodemocracy.dk
Working to make European democracy work. "Refreshingly free of the usual platitudes". Belge par choix, Brits door opvoeding, Polish roots. President of Demsoc.org
Senior lecturer, University College Cork. Interested in participatory & deliberative democracy, citizens assemblies, climate justice and intergenerational deliberation. Own views.
Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
Examining the intersections of deliberative democracy, craft gin, and Taylor Swift.
Deliberative Democracy @ Shared Future CIC | Climate Change and Water Security | Archaeology and History Enthusiast
Principal, masslbp.com | Helping people shape the policies that shape their lives | Citizens’ Assemblies + Democratic Innovation | Co-author, democracyssecondact.org
Projectmanager NewDemocracy project @BertelsmannStiftung
> (Digital) Democracy
> (Innovative) Citizen Participation
> (Geeky) Boardgames
Chile 🇨🇱 Science and Technology Studies, Deliberative Democracy, Democratic Theory
Professor of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. I direct the CSU Center for Public Deliberation (www.cpd.colostate.edu), which is a nonpartisan organization focused on improving the quality of public discussion and local problem-solving.
CEO Involve. Working to build a stronger democracy that works for everyone, by using the supertools of participatory and deliberative democracy. Also like improv & jumping in cold water.
People Powered co-director, Participatory Budgeting Project founder, #MakingDemocracyFun author. Posts about participatory democracy, vegan eats, dad jokes. he/él
https://cesnulaityte.com
Senior Advisor at DemocracyNext | Fellow at IWM | Advisor to Democracy R&D, Lygiosios
