awesome-polis
Community list of awesome projects, apps, tools and more related to Polis.
https://github.com/patcon/awesome-polis
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Academic
- Paper: Re-Mediatization as a New Digital Approach Towards Local Political Deliberation: Using Real-Time Participatory Media Production to Bring Nuance to Public Debates on Religion, Sexuality, and Migration - This paper used a remodeled version of Polis (see "Tolerance Carousel" entry) to try to redress and combat toxic polarization, and found it contributed to productive polarization and creative relating.
- Paper: Re-Mediatization as a New Digital Approach Towards Local Political Deliberation: Using Real-Time Participatory Media Production to Bring Nuance to Public Debates on Religion, Sexuality, and Migration - This paper used a remodeled version of Polis (see "Tolerance Carousel" entry) to try to redress and combat toxic polarization, and found it contributed to productive polarization and creative relating.
- Academic citations of original Polis paper - Google Scholar listings for all academic papers citing the original paper: _Polis: Scaling deliberation by mapping high dimensional opinion spaces_". (55 citations as of Jan 2025)
- Course Project: How Consensus can be Involved through Innovating Voting Mechanism? Using Polis Platform as an Example - This graudate studies project seemingly attempts to determine if consensus is created over the course of a long-lived Polis conversation. [Source](https://github.com/Oliz888/Voting_Consensus_Detection)
- Opportunities and Risks of LLMs for Scalable Deliberation with Polis - An official collaborative paper with AnthropicAI, on applying LLMs to Polis outputs and processes.
- Paper: AI and the Future of Digital Public Squares - Paper reflecting on implications of LLMs on democracy, including discussion and participation from experts in deliberation tools like Polis.
- Paper: Boosting, not replacing: Online deliberation tools in a face-to-face student citizens’ assembly - This paper offers an analysis of two software programmes specifically designed to facilitate high-quality online deliberation -- Decidim and Polis.
- Paper: Bridging Systems: Open problems for countering destructive divisiveness across ranking, recommenders, and governance - A paper prominently featuring Polis as a major example. The authors' scholarship have been key in supporting consensus-based systems to be integrated into platforms like Twitter's Community Notes. [Source](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09976)
- Paper: Collective Constitutional AI: Aligning a Language Model with Public Input - A paper that leaned highly on Polis to help public input shape a constitution that would direct AI responses. [Source](https://github.com/saffronh/ccai)
- Paper: EM algorithms for PCA and SPCA - The original paper describing expectation-maximization PCA (EMPCA), which is the incremental PCA algorithm that Polis uses to update its sparse matrix in a computationally efficient way as new vvotes come in. The Polis paper refers to EMPCA as the "power iteration method" of PCA.
- Paper: Error in the Euclidean Preference Model - An important analysis of Euclidian spatial models of preference, such as is used by Polis in its PCA dimensional reduction methods. [Source](2022-08)
- Paper: Generative Social Choice - An implementation of methods beneficial to vote prediction, a known opportunity for extending Polis into "virtual democracies".
- Paper: Metric Distortion with Elicited Pairwise Comparisons - A paper discussing constraints and considerations of what Polis calls "comment routing", or the order in which statements are presented to users in a fair way.
- Paper: Re-Mediatization as a New Digital Approach Towards Local Political Deliberation: Using Real-Time Participatory Media Production to Bring Nuance to Public Debates on Religion, Sexuality, and Migration - This paper used a remodeled version of Polis (see "Tolerance Carousel" entry) to try to redress and combat toxic polarization, and found it contributed to productive polarization and creative relating.
- Paper: Rethinking gamified democracy as frictional: a comparative examination of the Decide Madrid and vTaiwan platforms - A paper on vTaiwan that discusses the user experience of Polis, including some developer interviews and discussion of gameification of the interface.
- Paper: Science Communication as a Collective Intelligence Endeavor: A Manifesto and Examples for Implementation - This paper offers a Polis-based metholodology from writing a manifesto in a collective fashion.
- Paper: Using LLMs to Structure and Visualize Policy Discourse - A DARPA-funded winner of the Best Paper Award at the 4th International Workshop on Democracy and AI. This paper "introduces a unique approach to visualizing opinion data gathered from the Polis online platform in which LLMs are used to generate positions and structure the data into argument maps." [Source](https://ial.eecs.ucf.edu/pdf/Sukthankar-Democrai2024.pdf)
- Polis: Scaling Deliberation by Mapping HighDimensional Opinion Spaces - The authoritative paper on Polis internals and math.
- Thesis: Advancing Policy Insights: Opinion Data Analysis and Discourse Structuring Using LLMs - Using Polis datasets to propose automated content moderation pipelines via LLM reasoning. Argument maps are also generated from the data.
- Thesis: The Efficacy of Different Analysis Algorithms for Summarizing Online Deliberations - A review of Polis' clustering-analysis summary algorithms, and comparison with two newer algorithms based on (1) computational social choice theory or (2) abstract argumentation theory. An important analysis of Euclidian spatial models of preference, such as is used by Polis in its PCA dimensional reduction methods.
- “Coherent Mode” for the World’s Public Square - An official paper proposing modification to Twitter's Community Notes UI to support deliberative process.
- Toward building deliberative digital media: From subversion to consensus - This paper (Pentland & Tsai) analyzes Polis "to illustrate how social science might enable design of next-generation digital media suitable for democratic deliberation, and in which generative artificial intelligence might be useful."
- Paper: Re-Mediatization as a New Digital Approach Towards Local Political Deliberation: Using Real-Time Participatory Media Production to Bring Nuance to Public Debates on Religion, Sexuality, and Migration - This paper used a remodeled version of Polis (see "Tolerance Carousel" entry) to try to redress and combat toxic polarization, and found it contributed to productive polarization and creative relating.
- Paper: Re-Mediatization as a New Digital Approach Towards Local Political Deliberation: Using Real-Time Participatory Media Production to Bring Nuance to Public Debates on Religion, Sexuality, and Migration - This paper used a remodeled version of Polis (see "Tolerance Carousel" entry) to try to redress and combat toxic polarization, and found it contributed to productive polarization and creative relating.
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Misc
- Deliberative Reasoning Index (DRI) in Polis - A repository of DRI experiments carried out by members of Metagov's emerging "DRI in Polis" project, part of the "Interoperable Deliberative Tools" topic area.
- Public Square TO - A website embedding Polis conversations about issues relevant to residents of Toronto. Built by members of Civic Tech Toronto. [Source](https://github.com/publicsquareto/publicsquareto.github.io)
- Polis-like Opinion Landscape Painting - Experimental data-painting interface for exploring opinion landscapes created from Polis-like wikisurvey data. [Source](https://github.com/patcon/polislike-opinion-map-painting)
- Junction hackathon: Viewpoint - A proposal to generate Polis-like conversations about news. This was a Junction hackathon project (see other entry for details), within SITRA's digital democracy challenge. (Finland) [Source](https://github.com/nilsson-v/Viewpoint_Junction2024/blob/main/prompts.py)
- Junction hackathon: Zero-Friction - An attempt to create a multimodal, accessible UI for Polis-type visualizations. This was a Junction hackathon project (see other entry for details), within SITRA's digital democracy challenge. (Finland) [Source](https://github.com/mrbesher/junction-hackathon)
- aadityabhatia/polis-argmap - Polis Argument Mapping to Guide Policy Decisions. How can large language models enable us to ingest massive streams of unstructured information, incorporate diverse perspectives and distill them into actionable insights that demonstrably align with public opinion? [Source](https://github.com/aadityabhatia/polis-argmap)
- AIObjectives/community-notes-experiment - Analyses Polis data with Vitalik's simplified version of Community Notes algorithm, evaluating for quality and polarization.
- AIObjectives/talk-to-the-city-reports - Sample reports generated by Talk to the City, an open-source LLM survey tool to improve collective discourse and decision-making by analyzing detailed qualitative responses to questions and generating an easy-to-navigate report based on the input data. [Source](https://github.com/AIObjectives/talk-to-the-city-reports)
- AIObjectives/tttc-light-js - The codebase for generating reports. Talk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters. [Source](https://github.com/AIObjectives/tttc-light-js)
- audreyt/polis-tally - Polis export data and perl scripts for g0v.tw conversations, including Talkto.tw
- ballPointPenguin/polis-playbook - Ansible playbook for deployment of Polis instances.
- BotPolisCodeHelper - An AI-powered code analysis assistant trained on the Polis codebase, designed to help developers navigate and understand complex codebases. [Example 1](https://poe.com/s/uHMYdsovCgC51w2Z4KyR) | [Example 2](https://poe.com/s/njjAWIhTeXRUmO4X7A1E)
- colinmegill/conference - An app for conferences built around pol.is
- BotPolisSeedComments - A helpful bot for generating list of statements to use as seed statements when creating a conversation on Polis. [Example](https://poe.com/s/PBvusMmVMirF4PTL5icj)
- CivicTechTO/polis-moderator-hotkey - A Chrome extension allow polis moderator to accept/reject comments with hotkeys
- Code for NL Slack - PolisNL - Join the active #polis channel in this Slack team to participate in projects PolisNL / Partici.app
- codefornl/polis-splash - Wrapper for Polis discussion on Code for NL.
- Collective Intelligence with Agents - A general-use collective intelligence framework that allows AI agents to deliberate in a Polis-like way to utilize and demonstrate collective intelligence, with entry points for collective intelligence from a community of human participants.
- Common Ground - Conceptualised as a multi-player variant of Pol.is, this app aims to test whether intimate, small group discussions, enhanced by scalable intra-group communication protocols, can improve wider debate. Grantee in OpenAI "Democratic Inputs to AI" challenge. [Source](https://github.com/openai/democratic-inputs/tree/main/projects/deliberation_at_scale)
- Conversa - An experimental Ruby on Rails app attempting to reimplement the Polis frontend.
- Creating new frontend(s) for Polis (Part 4/5) - Part of a 5-post blog series about adapting and improving Polis for evaluation by several Dutch provincial governments and central government ministries
- Decidim-EJ - A Decidim module to integrate Pushing Together (EJ) into Decidim. (EJ was started by previous Polis users.)
- DELiberation.io - A general-purpose deliberation platform to host online conversations, inspired by Polis. In talks with potential partners for field experiments. [Source](https://github.com/itchytoo/deliberation.io)
- Demos-thinktank/dynata-id - A small site built to receive incoming Dynata ids, show people an embedded Pol.is survey, and send them back off when done.
- Doc: Holopolis - Demo Next Democracy - Holopolis was an open project launched by PDIS and Pol.is with the help of Microsoft Hololens Team and Re:public Inc.
- eterps/polislite - A lightweight polis-like library, aspiring to reproduce the Polis math algorithms in Python.
- Generative Policy - A research project to help create simulated preliminary policy recommendations, by simulating a Polis engagement with LLMs.
- Github List: Polis-like - A list of all GitHub repos (both source and forks) where Polis-related code exists.
- Holopolis Map - Web mobile app that through geolocalization and the use of stickers with QR codes promotes democractic deliberation processes everywhere in the world. [Source](https://github.com/PDIS/Holopolis-Map)
- jerojero/polis-tribu - Polis implementation for [Tribu](https://tribu.ong/) (a Chilean NGO), it includes a complete website with a database that leverages the xid method of the polis embedded conversation to identify users uniquely.
- JosephGubbels/delibdem - A few scripts for running various experiments. Very incomplete. [Source](https://github.com/JosephGubbels/delibdem)
- joshsmith2/polis-loadtesting - A series of Locust test to meaningfully load-test Pol.is instances
- Junction 2024 hackathon: Polis-related projects (SITRA) - The Junction 2024 is Europe's leading hackathon held annually in Helsinki. This year featured SITRA, sponsoring a challenge called "Let’s make Finland the world leader of digital democracy", encouraging a focus on improving Polis. This is a list of the full 28 submitted projects (not all centered on Polis).
- Junction hackathon: Alert Democracy (ALR DMC) browser extension - A browser extension (and backend server) that helps users take action (Polis conversation, petitions, etc.) on the issues they are reading about. This was a Junction hackathon project (see other entry for details), within SITRA's digital democracy challenge. (Finland) [Source](https://github.com/Junction-24/alrdmc-extension)
- Junction hackathon: Democracy Chamber - Democracy Chamber is an open platform for meaningful, democratic political discussion. The goal is to provide citizens with more tools to influence decision-making. This was a Junction hackathon project (see other entry for details), within SITRA's digital democracy challenge. (Finland) [Source](https://github.com/otsoweckstrom/democracy_chamber)
- Junction hackathon: EyeDentity - A human identifying tool based on deep gazing detection, to ensure human participation on Polis. This was a Junction hackathon project (see other entry for details), within SITRA's digital democracy challenge. (Finland) [Source](https://github.com/James-Leste/eyedentity)
- Junction hackathon: Ghost Against the Flow - A project to allow Polis auth and bot detection via browser fingerprinting, mouse movements, and request patterns. This was a Junction hackathon project (see other entry for details), within SITRA's digital democracy challenge. (Finland) [Source](https://github.com/shivergard/junction2024-websignature-sitra-challange)
- Junction hackathon: Pol.ly - A proposal for anonymous, phone-based login for Polis. This was a Junction hackathon project (see other entry for details), within SITRA's digital democracy challenge. (Finland) [Source](https://github.com/xypine/junction24-demo)
- Junction hackathon: PoliShield - A proposed Polis extension introducing robust cryptographic security measures to Polis, guarding against automated participation. This was a Junction hackathon project (see other entry for details), within SITRA's digital democracy challenge. (Finland)
- Junction hackathon: True Voice - An attempt to reimagine the Polis interface with LLM involvement. This was a Junction hackathon project (see other entry for details), within SITRA's digital democracy challenge. (Finland) [Source](https://github.com/TGDivy/TrueVoiceClient)
- Junction hackathon: Verified - A proposal to connect Polis with physical verification. This was a Junction hackathon project (see other entry for details), within SITRA's digital democracy challenge. (Finland)
- LegSim - A defunct virtual legislature platform founded in 2001 that integrated Polis. [Source](https://github.com/UWLegSim/legsim-public/)
- MaanasArora/polis-ctto - A simple and efficient polis-like system built as a learning exercise by a contributor from Civic Tech Toronto.
- MyDemocracy.ca - Mini-site wrapping Polis for a citizen-run online consultation experiment. [Source](https://github.com/CivicTechTO/MyDem0cracy.ca-site/)
- NewJerseyStyle/LitePolis - LitePolis is a WIP aiming provide a developer- and data-scientist-friendly port of Polis written in Python.
- NewVote/newvote-rhok - NewVote was an online crowd-sourcing tool in Australia that integrates Polis, supports co-design, communication and decision-making. [Source](https://github.com/NewVote/newvote-rhok)
- Open-source Collective Constitutions for AI - Platform that enables communities to collaboratively create and refine AI models based on collectively defined constitutions, democratizing AI alignment. Uses Polis' participants-votes.csv export data. [Source](https://github.com/collect-intel/osccai)
- ourcity/minneapolis - A platform for creating more transparency and engagement with local government processes in Minneapolis. Groups council agenda items into larger issues, and integrates Polis conversations to explore those issues.
- padagraph/vTaiwanAirBnbImporter - An experiment with Airbnb Pol.is data, importing it into graph database.
- Participa infra - Deployment scripts for deploying Participa platform alongside a self-hosted Polis instance.
- Participa app - Alternative Polis administration app written in Python's Django framework. For self-hosted Polis conversations, aims to improve the interface, and add user management, without forking its Polis core. [Source](https://github.com/participa-lab/participa)
- patcon/astro-test-polis - A sample wrapper app for a Polis conversation, built on Astro framework. [Source](https://github.com/patcon/astro-test-polis)
- patcon/polis-api-proxy - A Pol.is API proxy for experimenting with different API design choices. [Source](https://github.com/patcon/polis-api-proxy)
- Polis IRL: Mobile NFC voting app - A prototype React-Native mobile app for IRL voting in Polis conversations via scanning assigned NFC stickers.
- patcon/polis-api-spec - An interactive Swagger API spec for documenting and exploring the Polis API Proxy endpoints. [Source](https://github.com/patcon/polis-api-spec/blob/master/_data/swagger.yml)
- patcon/polis-examples - Minimal sample apps for demonstrating various sorts of integrations. Notably includes passing vote/submit messages out of iframe via postMessage, and using Auth0 accounts. [Source](https://github.com/patcon/polis-examples)
- patcon/polis-exporter - An unfinished, messy work-in-progress set of scripts attempting to generate a Polis zipped export archive from public API endpoints.
- patcon/polis-irl-simulator - A demo to show how Polis conversations might augment in-person meetings.
- patcon/trump-polis-twitter-bot - A Twitter bot to auto-create Pol.is conversations for each Donald Trump tweet. [Source](https://github.com/patcon/trump-polis-twitter-bot)
- PDIS helper scripts - PDIS.tw scripts for performing various tasks directly on the Polis database of self-hosted instances.
- PDIS/aframe-polis - An exploration of visualizing Polis results in the A-Frame web VR framework
- PDIS/holopolis2017 - Polis-inspired Holopolis experiments in 3D, based on both [Overte VR](https://github.com/overte-org/overte) ([née](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/ycpte4/whats_up_with_oasis_vr_and_high_fidelity/) High Fidelity) and Unity VR platforms.
- PDIS/sandstorm-external-site - A sandstorm auth wrapper for Polis.
- PluralCC/pcc-consensus-polling - Plural Polis Discourse, is a forum plugin to integrating Polis into a Discourse fork. It is cited in the linked paper as a demo of a collusion-resistant communication channel. [Source](https://github.com/PluralCC/pcc-consensus-polling)
- PluralCC/plural-discourse - A Discourse Forum fork intended to be used with the Polis-integrating `pcc-consensus-polling` Discourse plugin.
- Polis Analysis & Simulation - This application implements the core analysis algorithms used by the Polis real-time survey and opinion analysis tool, running as a TypeScript effect pipeline in the browser. It has been tested against existing CC-licensed Polis data and runs on surveys of 100s-1000s of participants, with 100s of comments, in 300ms-1s. [Source](https://github.com/raykyri/osccai-simulation)
- Polis Kubernetes Helm Chart - Configuration management code for setting up a Polis instance via Kubernetes.
- Polis link prediction - A data exploration in Jupyter notebook.
- Polis Math module walk-through - Notes from a walk-through of the Clojure math module of Polis, given by CompDem data scientist Chris Small during his technical office hours.
- Polis Resources Spreadsheet - The raw source material for this community-stewarded Awesome Polis directory.
- PolisNL Demo - PolisNL is a demo Partici.app frontend for Polis, accessed via the ParticiAPI server. [Source](https://gitlab.com/betabreak/polispilot/demo)
- PolisNL.nl - A Dutch working group for a Dutch version of Polis subsidised with the innovation fund afiliated to the Dutch Governement.
- PolisOrbis Deploy Blueprints - Scripts and code to deploy PolisOrbis in a provisioned Amazon AWS infrastructure.
- Pushing Together (EJ) bot - An opinion research chatbot for Telegram and WhatsApp. (EJ was started by previous Polis users.) [Source](https://gitlab.com/pencillabs/ej/ej-bot)
- RoboTeddy/polis-poh-embed-example - Example of a Proof-of-Humanity identity provider wrapper for any arbitary Polis conversation. [Source](https://github.com/RoboTeddy/polis-poh-embed-example)
- RxC Conversations - A wrapper for Polis conversations held in the RadicalxChange community.
- Praat mee met de Overheid - A Polis implementation by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, where partici.app components where used. [Source](https://gitlab.com/particiapp/)
- proyectourgente/cuestionario-luc - The website code ([hosted archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20211202162952/http://luc.com.uy/)) and collected data of the Polis experiment running in the months prior to the LUC referendum in Uruguay. [Source](https://github.com/proyectourgente/cuestionario-luc)
- Pushing Together (EJ) - A platform using gamification and machine learning to promote discussions and participation in a virtual democracy. (EJ was started by previous Polis users.) [Source](https://gitlab.com/pencillabs/ej/ej-application)
- RxC Voice - RadicalxChange Voice is an app for decentralized democratic governance. [Source](https://github.com/RadicalxChange/rxc-voice)
- saffronh/ccai - Data processing for the Collective Constitutional AI project (a collaboration between The Collective Intelligence Project & Anthropic) [Source](https://github.com/saffronh/ccai)
- shuyanglin/vtaiwan-openai-2023 - A vTaiwan banner website for running a consultation (including Polis) within the Democracy Inputs to AI grant. [Source](https://github.com/shuyanglin/vtaiwan-openai-2023)
- Society Speaks - A fully-launched Polis-centred platform for improved hosting experience and discoverability of public Polis conversations, from local up to international. [Source](https://github.com/zuluwill/Societyspeaks)
- Storybook: Polis - A "storybook" instance to display frontend UI components from Polis and its forks, to allow more collaboration and experimentation on UX and accessibility improvements. [Source](https://github.com/CivicTechTO/polis-storybook)
- Talk to Taiwan - Source for generating the [Talkto.tw website codebase](https://github.com/maylogger/talkto.tw), which used Polis alongside livestreamed interviews of public figures. [Source](https://github.com/maylogger/talkto.tw.source)
- Talkto.NYC - Polis-integrated media platform for the people of NYC to bring their ideas to city politics [Source](https://github.com/g0vNYC/talkto.nyc)
- Tolerance Carousel - An interactive exhibit that integrated a fork of Polis into a multimedia Virtual Agora in-person event. [Source](https://github.com/tolerance-carousel/tolerance-carousel)
- Tuebocracy - Simple wrapper app, intended to help citizens of Tübingen Germany provide input on city issues. Written in Racket language, using Pollen and UnoCSS, built with Nix. Created for a hackathon. [Source](https://github.com/haglobah/tuebocracy)
- Twitter List: Polis-curious - A Twitter list of folks who've built, used or just gotten really stoked about Polis or vTaiwan.
- Viewpoints.xyz - New UI experiment for a Polis-like platform. [Source](https://github.com/Goodheart-Labs/polislike)
- WePublish - Open Source Headless CMS for Publishers and News Rooms, integrating Polis. Created in Switzerland. [Source](https://github.com/wepublish/wepublish)
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_survey - A Wikipedia entry originally created by Nicolas Perez, a member of the Polis User Group (PUG) community, giving Polis its first dedicated section on the platform. [Source](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HUx8ClEF-95t38k8uaCdx3AeReBs3w9OoerSYFPOYT4/edit)
- undefined - Jigsaw’s Sensemaking tools help make sense of large-scale online conversations, leveraging LLMs to categorize statements, and summarize statements and voting patterns to surface actionable insights. Uses Polis computational metrics and imports. [Source](https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/sensemaking-tools)
- OpenSourcePolitics/decidim-polis - Decidim module for integrating Polis into that platform. [Source](https://github.com/OpenSourcePolitics/decidim-polis/)
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Forks
- Partici.app: Dev Demo - The bleeding-edge development demo of Partici.app and ParticiAPI. Part of PolisNL project. [Source](https://gitlab.com/particiapp/particiapp-example-frontend)
- Partici.app: Documentation Website - Documentation website for Partici.app, an alternative Polis frontend, build for the PolisNL project. ([Kanban board](https://gitlab.com/betabreak/polispilot/polis-innovation/-/boards)) [Source](https://gitlab.com/particiapp/)
- ParticiAPI - A server providing an alternative API on top of the Polis database, supporting third-party frontends for the Polis project. [Source](https://gitlab.com/particiapp/particiapi)
- Talk to the Government NL / Praat mee met de Overheid - A Polis implementation run by [ITSU](https://ictu.nl) for the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, where partici.app components were used. [Source](https://gitlab.com/particiapp/)
- Agora Citizen Network - Agora is a Polis-inspired platform that enables citizens, organizations, and governments to engage in meaningful large-scale discussions on social and political issues. [Source](https://github.com/zkorum/zkorum)
- Demos UK - Polis fork run by the UK thinktank Demos. [Source](https://github.com/Demos-thinktank/polis/tree/demos-dev)
- DFE-Digital/polis-whitelabel - A pared-down fork of Polis created by the Gov.UK Policy Lab [Source](https://github.com/DFE-Digital/polis-whitelabel)
- Fork: InnoPolis - A decentralized version of Pol.is built on Ethereum, for community engagement and decision-making with ML-powered opinion analysis. [Source](https://github.com/PassKeyRa/innopolis-report)
- Fork: Demdis - A Slovakian fork seeking to build a community around better ways of engaging in divisive conversations. [Source](https://github.com/Demdis/polis)
- Fork: DigiFinland User Interface - An in-progress experimental participation interface for Polis, built in partnership between DigiFinland and the SITRA fund. [Source](https://github.com/polis-digifinland/df-participation)
- Fork: Kennislink - A Dutch fork seeking to build a community around better ways of engaging in divisive conversations. [Source](https://github.com/Simon-Dirks/polis/tree/kennislink)
- Fork: Polis DigiFinland v2 - A current V2 set of deploy scripts, settings files, custom patches, translations and utilities for running Polis experiment deployments for DigiFinland. [Source](https://github.com/polis-digifinland/polis-digifinland)
- Fork: PolisOrbis - PolisOrbis is a Polis fork with extensive rewrites, aiming for GDPR compliance, OpenID Connect auth support, and improved docs, among other things. [Source](https://gitlab.com/copernicani/polisorbis/codebase)
- Fork: sirodoht/suburb - Suburb is an experimental fork of Polis, with cleanup in code and infrastructure requirements.
- Metropolis - A new Polis frontend and collective-response tool, funded for Filecoin governance and integrated with GitHub. [Source](https://github.com/canvasxyz/metropolis)
- Nexus - Nexus is a full-stack application designed to facilitate group deliberation using AI. It draws inspiration from platforms like Polis and Community Notes by X. [Source](https://github.com/sofvanh/MindMeld)
- Pentano - An early iteration of the Pushing Together reimplementation of Polis. (Brazil)
- Polis deployment: Crowd Wisdom Project - An unmodified deployment of the Polis codebase, hosted by the UK-based Crowd Wisdom Project. [Source](https://github.com/NewRedo/polis-fork)
- Polis deployment: Polis.tw - An slightly modified deployment of the Polis codebase, hosted by PDIS.tw, a division of the Taiwanese national government. [Source](https://github.com/PDIS/polis2023)
- Pushing Together (EJ Platform) - A comprehensive platform and funded project to create a social participation app, reimplementing Polis. (Brazil) [Source](https://github.com/ejplatform)
- Red-Dwarf: Polis algorithm Python library - A DIMensional REDuction library for stellarpunk democracy into the long haul. Goal is re-implementing Polis algorithms in Python, supporting easily-tuned variables and alternative dimensional reduction algorithms. [Source](https://github.com/polis-community/red-dwarf)
- Tolerance Carousel - Code for deployed fork of Polis that paired with the Tolerance Carousel project.
- Partici.app: Docker environment - Support infrastructure to host Partici.app and their Polis fork.
- CodeWithAloha/HIERR - Hawaiʻi Economic Recovery & Resilience (HIERR) is a digital engagement platform wrapping around Polis and providing onboarding materials to solicit resident sentiments on vision and value statements for Hawaii's economic future. [Source](https://github.com/CodeWithAloha/HIERR)
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Contribute to this list!
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Official
- compdemocracy/openData - Data exports from select "open data" Polis conversations
- compdemocracy/scripts - Scripts to streamline the running of the pol.is instance used in Policy Lab. Some of these will become features later on.
- Guide: Integrating Polis with Citizens Assemblies - A guide for those who are thinking about the interaction between techniques for listening at scale and in-person deliberation
- Official Guide to Polis Methods v1 - The table of contents for an incomplete stub of a currently unpublished Polis book.
- Pol.is - Open Source AI for large scale open ended feedback [Source](https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis)
- Polis Embed Examples - Examples illustrating how to embed a Polis conversation in another website.
- Polis Knowledge Base - The Computational Democracy Project maintains an extensive (and growing) knowledge base for Polis and related facilitation methods.
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People
- Discord: RadicalxChange Foundation - RadicalxChange Foundation uses Polis in its work, and has built several projects on comparable technologies. It's founding members are bullish on it's use in democratic processes.
- Bluesky List: Polis-curious - A more inclusive Bluesky user list, including people who've expressed interest and enthusiasm about Polis, particularly on social media. Best-suited as a pseudo-feed of user posts, via the "Pin to Home" feature.
- Bluesky Starter Pack: Polis Practitioners - A more curated Bluesky user list (as a starter pack), including people actively working on Polis & Polis-related projects. Best-suited for mass-following users. (Sync'd with list of same name as much as possible.) [Source](https://github.com/polis-community/polis-bluesky-sync#readme)
- Discord: Citizen Collective - Citizen Collective is a community that spun out of Jon Alexander's book CITIZENS. There is no specific channel for Polis-related interests, but since many people are active in Citizen Assembly pprocesses, there are a high number of people running experiments or eager to discuss. Search to find past convos.
- Discord: Polis User Group (PUG) - An unofficial Discord server for the Polis User Group (PUG). See PUG entry for details.
- Discord: Plurality Institute - Plurality Insitute was founded by Glen Weyl and Audrey Tang, two big proponents of Polis, and sees Polis-like tools as central to creating more co-operative democracies.
- Discord: ZKorum / Agora - See entry for "Agora Citizen Network" project, a reimplementation of Polis. They are also financially supporting Red-Dwarf, a Python library reimplementing Polis algorithms, and running community calls for developers and other practitioners. Channels: `#dev` (for library conversations)
- Polis Practitioners directory - A canonical contact spreadsheet of almost 400 practitioners (people, projects & orgs) of Polis and Polis-like software, aggregated from public resources by patcon, from almost a decade of working and interacting in the space. This resource will be used to auto-generate others. (private for now, pls feel welcome to request access)
- Polis Practitioners Network Visualization - A network visualization of practitioners of Polis-like tools and processes. Generated from the "Polis Practitioners directory". [Source](https://github.com/patcon/polis-practitioner-graph)
- Polis User Group (PUG) weekly call notes - Landing page and weekly call notes for Polis User Group (PUG), a community for users and fans of the Polis software project, for anyone eager to explore the tool/processes, including prospective conversation moderators & participants, as well as self-hosted server administrators.
- Slack: Civic Tech Toronto - Civic Tech Toronto is a vibrant and diverse community of Torontonians engaged in understanding and creating solutions for civic challenges through technology, design, and other innovative means. Channels: `#polis`, `#polis-portal`, `#polis-content-creation`, `#polis-tool-talk` [Source](https://civictechto.slack.com)
- Slack: Code for NL - Code for NL is the Dutch community of people working together on an open, fair and inclusive digital government and society. Channels: `#polisnl`, `#polis-portal` [Source](https://codefornl.slack.com)
- Slack: Metagov - Metagov is a community of research and practice gathered around the mission to cultivate tools, practices, and communities that enable self-governance in the digital age. Channels: `#deliberative-tools-and-interop` [Source](https://metagov.slack.com)
- Twitter/X List: Polis Practitioners - A more curated Twitter/X user list, including people actively working on Polis & Polis-related projects. Best-suited for following users. (Sync'd with Bluesky lists as much as possible.)
- Twitter/X List: Polis-curious - A more inclusive Twitter/X user list, including people who've expressed interest and enthusiasm about Polis, particularly on social media. Best-suited as a pseudo-feed of user posts, via "pinning" on your list listing page. (Sync'd with Bluesky list as much as possible.)
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