Compendiums Deciding together
Deciding together
Open tools and documented practices for groups, towns and countries working out what they agree on.
20 resources, read at their own pages, most recently on 2026-10-21. Licences are given as each page states them. Links last checked 2026-10-23, all reached.
Tools
Polis
The Computational Democracy Project
Run a conversation where many people write short statements and vote on each other's, then see the opinion groups and the points most groups share.
Decidim
Decidim Association
Set up a participation platform for proposals, debates, meetings, voting and participatory budgeting, on software an organisation hosts itself.
CONSUL DEMOCRACY
Consul Democracy Foundation
Install software for public debates, citizen proposals, voting and participatory budgeting that more than 250 cities and organisations have used.
Weval
The Collective Intelligence Project
Read and build community-written evaluations that test AI models on what a community cares about, and see the resulting leaderboards.
Loomio
Loomio
Give a group a shared space to discuss a question, make a proposal and record what was decided and why.
LiquidFeedback
Public Software Group e. V.
Install software for drafting proposals together and deciding on them in medium and large groups.
Your Priorities
Citizens Foundation
Use open-source software for idea generation, debate, voting, surveys and participatory budgeting that has been used in more than 50 countries.
Talk to the City
AI Objectives Institute
Turn interviews or open-ended public input into a report that groups themes and links each one back to what individual people said.
adhocracy+
Liquid Democracy e.V.
Set up online participation projects for a municipality, NGO or local group, such as idea collection, text commenting and polls.
All Our Ideas
All Our Ideas
Create a wiki survey where people vote between pairs of ideas and add their own, so the most supported ideas rise to the top.
Panelot
Panelot
Compute a lottery that picks a citizens' panel meeting your demographic quotas while giving every volunteer as fair a chance as possible, then draw the panel.
Documented practices
vTaiwan
vTaiwan community
Read public policy issues under discussion in Taiwan and follow how online and in-person discussion turns into policy suggestions (site in Traditional Chinese).
Alignment Assemblies
The Collective Intelligence Project
Read how the Collective Intelligence Project has run public input processes on how AI models should behave, and what came of them.
Classroom Toolkit: Citizenship in 21st Century America
Deliberative Democracy Lab, Stanford University
Download teacher and student sessions, surveys and a moderator guide for running a deliberative poll with high school students.
Guides
Catching the Deliberative Wave
OECD
Read a 2020 report that compares close to 300 citizens' assemblies, juries and panels and sets out good practice principles for them.
All about citizens' assemblies
Sortition Foundation
Read a plain explanation of citizens' assemblies, selection by lottery and the steps for running one.
Assembling an Assembly Guide
DemocracyNext
Follow a step-by-step guide to designing, running and following up a citizens' assembly, in English, Spanish, Basque and Japanese.
Resource Library
Participatory Budgeting Project
Find guides, toolkits, case studies and research on participatory budgeting, where community members decide how to spend part of a public budget.
Data and measurements
Participedia
Participedia
Search 2,434 cases, 399 methods and 877 organisations in public participation from 160 countries, and add entries of your own.
Global Dialogues
The Collective Intelligence Project
Explore and download survey responses from rounds of about 1,000 people in more than 60 countries each on how AI affects their lives.