Citizens’ Collective Intelligence is an untapped resource for policy makers to:
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Design better public policies and make more informed decisions
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Foster trust between citizens and encourage change
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Innovate by including different ideas and spreading what works
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Achieve actionable consensus and smoother policy making
Our goal: renew democracy
Smarter Together is a non-profit whose purpose is to study, design, develop and evaluate democratic innovations and collaborative governance mechanisms.
Our goal is to renew democracy and empower groups to better respond to collective issues.
Discover the latest science at the intersection of politics and Collective Intelligence from the world’s leading academic publisher in Humanities and Social Science.
Democracy is in crisis because today’s governments largely fail to capitalize on their greatest untapped resource: the collective intelligence of their citizens.
The cases in this book show the way to the smarter, more open democracy that humanity deserves.
Prof. Helene Landemore
Yale University, author of Open Democracy (2020)
None of this century’s hardest problems will be solved by a single stroke of genius –rather, we can only make progress by inventing new and better forms of collaboration. This book gives an essential guide to our emerging field.
Prof. Thomas Malone
Founder, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
The extent of the movement toward deliberative democracy has been poorly understood until now. This book enhances our understanding of the breadth of activity across geographies and social institutions, while providing a valuable resource for insights from a host of experiments in collective intelligence.
Dawn Nakagawa
Executive Vice President of the Berggruen Institute
A global and diverse network of 60+ experts, contributors and mentors, from the world’s best academic and consultancy teams. Our network helps public officials, NGOs, and all those seeking to develop innovative and impactful processes that deeply renew democracy.
Passy Amayo Ogolla
Vice Chair at International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA Global Council on SDG7
Julie Anne Jenson
Director of Research Strategy at Concrete
Charlotte Arribe
Consultant at UNDP
Stephanie Arrowsmith
Regional Lead, Asia-Pacific at Impact Hub Network
Mary-Alice Arthur
Story Activist at SOAR
Oumar Ba
Assistant professor, department of government at Cornell University
Explore our democratic innovation toolbox and make it your own. Use these curated methods to get your own projects off the ground ans solve public problems together more effectively. Don’t forget to adapt them to your own context.
Get inspired with 30+ curated examples from around the world.
We’ll be breaking down what works, and why, by adding new featured case studies every week.
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