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Curating experts insights to tackle Covid-19 with Smarter Crowdsourcing

A new method to attract diverse ideas from global experts and rapidly develop actionable proposals.

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Understanding the levers of public opinion: deliberative polling and AI assisted online deliberation

A new way for governments to reduce polarization and uncover how citizens change their mind on important policy issues

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Citizen sourcing health policy with AI idea curation

How Slagelse used AI to gather citizen insights on health and well-being to craft local policy

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How a small French town reduced unemployment with citizen led innovation

Dreaming, remembering, scaling and innovating boldly to spread good ideas

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Actionable consensus from conflicting interests: how Agoras facilitated Germany’s energy transition

A new deliberation format to decide which climate and energy policies to pick for the green economy.

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Deliberative policymaking: how vTaiwan engaged its citizens in policymaking during Covid-19

An online deliberation platform for stakeholders to remove deadlocks on thorny policy-making issues

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Hearing the marginalized: How Indian Jan Sunwais help the voiceless speak, learn and act

To uncover and heal grievances on vital issues, Jan Sunwai use a public hearing format and skilled facilitators to guide debate and emotions.

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Crowd forecasting infectious disease outbreaks: how John Hopkins leveraged the wisdom of crowds

To reinforce its predictive arsenal and tackle uncertainty, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security experimented with a novel method that had previously been used by the US intelligence community to predict

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Increasing policy-making legitimacy and impact: how Gentofte enhanced dialogue between citizens and politicians

Making policy mistakes is costly, but Political Task Committees can make dialogue between citizens and politicians more inclusive and productive.

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When Bottom-Up and Top-Down Meet: the ADDIS Process and the Co-Creation of the Nigeria Startup Bill

Mobilizing collective intelligence and cultural diversity to reach Sustainable Development Goals: From global innovation labs to collective intelligence infrastructures for sustainable development

Co-initiating, sensing, presencing, creating and shaping: How the Scottish government applied Theory U for collective leadership against Covid-19

Slowing down to better tackle a region’s challenges: Lessons from Co-Intelligence Wallonia

A collaborative platform to scale personal initiatives into collective action system-wide: The citizen powerhouse of Sager der Samler in Aarhus

Crowdsourcing a Constitution: The world's first crowdsourced constitution rises from the ashes in Iceland

Collective creativity for political movements and party entrepreneurship: The Alternative in Denmark, or why failure is an option

From Shouting Matches to Argument Maps: An Online Deliberation Experiment in Italy

Turning problem makers into creative problem solvers: How New York state creatively shifted the paradigm from managing troubled kids to engaging them

Tacit knowledge speaks the language of story: Morocco’s Commission spéciale sur le modèle de développement

Challenging received wisdom and spreading innovation: Lessons from the Youth Justice Board

Achieving Parity with Human Moderators: A Self-Moderating Platform for Online Deliberation

Creating collaborative young communities through school participatory budgeting

Public challenges to kindle innovation: How one telegram forever changed public policy in Australia

Creating a ‘voice’ of collective change through simple mobile phones

Collective intelligence and digital participatory platforms: learnings from Barcelona´s DECIDIM

Mediating for a smarter dialogue: A Swedish protest

The power of different perspectives for conflict resolution and community change: An eagle watches over us

Changing the narrative and storytelling for transformation and better community engagement: The Fab City Global Initiative

Pioneering Asia Pacific’s first community-driven investment process through blockchain: Impact Collective

Unlocking the European potential of national parliaments’ collective intelligence: the Open European Dialogue

Crowd forecasting infectious disease outbreaks

Bridging science and diplomacy to build a universal agreement on the science of climate change: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Nurturing the right context for fruitful dialogue: The case of Helmut Kohl's "gastrosophy"

Thinking ahead collectively: the case of African Digital Futures

Smarter Crowdsourcing to tackle Covid-19: Beyond the Open Call

Mobilizing citizen science for adapting to climate change in the Arctic: The case of monitoring Svalbard’s and Greenland’s environment by expedition cruises

Using Collective Intelligence to Assess the Future with the Pandemic Supermind

Using political bots and artificial intelligence to facilitate the interaction between citizens and lawmakers

Turning organizations into innovation ecosystems: the HIP model