We're excited to be present at two upcoming democracy conferences:
The Digital Democracy conference, The Hague ddth25.polisnl.org/en
And Democracy R&D conference Brussels www.drd2025.org
@andypaice.bsky.social will be at both, representing us. Do come and say hello! 👋
It's a privilege to be working with such brilliant people!
Hello Bluesky! We're CrownShy! We won the 2025 Civtech challenge 10.7 to partner with @scotgov
and we're developing a platform to scale quality public participation, integrating open source tools into our 'Comhairle' platform. Find out about our journey here crown-shy.com/blog/our-civ...
Another great day yesterday in Huddersfield celebrating local participatory democracy and citizen agency at the 10th #notwestminster conference. Great to see everyone and thank you @notwestminster.bsky.social and Diane for your great efforts in making it a consistent success!
We've made a starter pack of some people and organisations promoting public participation through sortition, deliberative democracy and citizens' assemblies. Get following:
go.bsky.app/7pp3mDu
Hi @colinmegill.com just written an article on exactly this topic. Feel free to comment. It's for co-intelligence institute & written from my participatory democracy practitioner viewpoint rather than a techy one I included your exciting news on Polis 2! www.co-intelligence.institute/blog-parts-w...
I recommend this fantastic conference on local democracy in the UK. Book your train tickets to Huddersfield for 15th Feb and check it out!
Most of what people have been asking for for years is on its way in polis :)
really excited
Very exciting!
Hello Bluesky! Testing the waters here to see what's going on👀
