November 2024

Agora is a Polis-inspired platform that enables citizens, organizations, and governments to engage in meaningful large-scale discussions on social and political issues.

October 2024

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.

October 2023

A Slovakian fork seeking to build a community around better ways of engaging in divisive conversations.

August 2020

Polis fork run by the UK thinktank Demos.

July 2023

A pared-down fork of Polis created by the Gov.UK Policy Lab

November 2024

A decentralized version of Pol.is built on Ethereum, for community engagement and decision-making with ML-powered opinion analysis.

November 2024

A new Polis frontend and collective-response tool, funded for Filecoin governance and integrated with GitHub.

March 2021

An unmodified deployment of the Polis codebase, hosted by the UK-based Crowd Wisdom Project.

August 2023

An slightly modified deployment of the Polis codebase, hosted by PDIS.tw, a division of the Taiwanese national government.

April 2023

An initial V1 set of deploy scripts, settings files, custom patches, translations and utilities for running Polis experiment deployments for DigiFinland.

September 2024

A current V2 set of deploy scripts, settings files, custom patches, translations and utilities for running Polis experiment deployments for DigiFinland.

September 2024

PolisOrbis is a Polis fork with extensive rewrites, aiming for GDPR compliance, OpenID Connect auth support, and improved docs, among other things.

December 2023

A modified deployment of the Polis codebase, called Partici.app. Built by affiliates of Code for NL, related to PolisPilot.

May 2023

A comprehensive platform an funded project to create a social participation app based on Polis.

November 2022

Suburb is an experimental fork of Polis, with cleanup in code and infrastructure requirements.

July 2022

Code for deployed fork of Polis that paired with the Tolerance Carousel project.

October 2024

Data exports from select “open data” Polis conversations

January 2023

Scripts to streamline the running of the pol.is instance used in Policy Lab. Some of these will become features later on.

A guide for those who are thinking about the interaction between techniques for listening at scale and in-person deliberation

The table of contents for an incomplete stub of a currently unpublished Polis book.

June 20, 2023

An official collaborative paper with AnthropicAI, on applying LLMs to Polis outputs and processes.

Open Source AI for large scale open ended feedback

July 2023

Examples illustrating how to embed a Polis conversation in another website.

2024

The Computational Democracy Project maintains an extensive (and growing) knowledge base for Polis and related facilitation methods.

April 29, 2021

The authoritative paper on Polis internals and math.

November 24, 2022

An official paper proposing modification to Twitter’s Community Notes UI to support deliberative process.

May 2024

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?

October 2023

Analyses Polis data with Vitalik’s simplified version of Community Notes algorithm, evaluating for quality and polarization.

June 2024

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.

October 2024

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.

March 2019

Polis export data and perl scripts for g0v.tw conversations, including Talkto.tw

June 2020

Ansible playbook for deployment of Polis instances.

November 2024

A more curated Bluesky user list, including people actively working on Polis & Polis-related projects. Best-suited as a pseudo-feed of user posts, via the “Pin to Home” feature.

November 2024

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.

November 2024

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 Bluesky list as much as possible.)

June 2024

A Chrome extension allow polis moderator to accept/reject comments with hotkeys

October 2024

Join the active #polis channel in this Slack team to participate in projects PolisPilot / Partici.app

February 2021

Wrapper for Polis discussion on Code for NL.

September 2014

An app for conferences built around pol.is

February 2019

An experimental Ruby on Rails app attempting to reimplement the Polis frontend.

October 3, 2024

Part of a 5-post blog series about adapting and improving Polis for evaluation by several Dutch provincial governments and central government ministries

August 2024

A Decidim module to integrate Pushing Together (EJ) into Decidim. (EJ was started by previous Polis users.)

June 2024

A general-purpose deliberation platform to host online conversations, inspired by Polis. In talks with potential partners for field experiments.

November 2024

Democracy Chamber is an open platform for meaningful, democratic political discussion. The goal is to provide citizens with more tools to influence decision-making.

August 2020

A small site built to receive incoming Dynata ids, show people an embedded Pol.is survey, and send them back off when done.

July 2017

Holopolis was an open project launched by PDIS and Pol.is with the help of Microsoft Hololens Team and Re:public Inc.

November 2024

A lightweight polis-like library, aspiring to reproduce the Polis math algorithms in Python.

September 2024

A research project to help create simulated preliminary policy recommendations, by simulating a Polis engagement with LLMs.

December 2018

Web mobile app that through geolocalization and the use of stickers with QR codes promotes democractic deliberation processes everywhere in the world.

October 2021

Polis implementation for Tribu (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.

May 2020

A series of Locust test to meaningfully load-test Pol.is instances

A defunct virtual legislature platform founded in 2001 that integrated Polis.

November 2024

A simple and efficient polis-like system built as a learning exercise by a contributor from Civic Tech Toronto.

December 2016

Mini-site wrapping Polis for a citizen-run online consultation experiment.

May 9, 2024

LitePolis is a WIP aiming provide a developer- and data-scientist-friendly port of Polis written in Python.

August 2020

NewVote was an online crowd-sourcing tool in Australia that integrates Polis, supports co-design, communication and decision-making.

December 2017

An example Decidim codebase with the Decidim::Polis module installed

September 2022

Decidim module for integrating Polis into that platform.

September 2014

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.

June 2016

An experiment with Airbnb Pol.is data, importing it into graph database.

June 2024

An Alternative Polis frontend, used in the PolisPilot demo. (Kanban board)

June 2024

Support infrastructure to host Partici.app and their Polis fork.

June 2024

A server providing an alternative API on top of the Polis database, supporting third-party frontends for the Polis project.

November 2024

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.

September 2024

Deployment scripts for deploying Participa platform alongside a self-hosted Polis instance.

April 2024

A sample wrapper app for a Polis conversation, built on Astro framework.

April 2023

A Pol.is API proxy for experimenting with different API design choices.

October 2024

An interactive Swagger API spec for documenting and exploring the Polis API Proxy endpoints.

January 2021

Minimal sample apps for demonstrating various sorts of integrations. Notably includes passing vote/submit messages out of iframe via postMessage, and using Auth0 accounts.

August 2024

An unfinished, messy work-in-progress set of scripts attempting to generate a Polis zipped export archive from public API endpoints.

February 2022

A demo to show how Polis conversations might augment in-person meetings.

January 2017

A Twitter bot to auto-create Pol.is conversations for each Donald Trump tweet.

November 2019

PDIS.tw scripts for performing various tasks directly on the Polis database of self-hosted instances.

July 2017

An exploration of visualizing Polis results in the A-Frame web VR framework

November 2017

Polis-inspired Holopolis experiments in 3D, based on both Overte VR (née High Fidelity) and Unity VR platforms.

June 2017

A sandstorm auth wrapper for Polis.

May 2023

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.

May 2023

A Discourse Forum fork intended to be used with the Polis-integrating pcc-consensus-polling Discourse plugin.

December 2023

A prototype React-Native mobile app for IRL voting in Polis conversations via scanning assigned NFC stickers.

November 2020

Configuration management code for setting up a Polis instance via Kubernetes.

January 2021

A data exploration in Jupyter notebook.

March 2021

Notes from a walk-through of the Clojure math module of Polis, given by CompDem data scientist Chris Small during his technical office hours.

November 2024

The raw source material for this community-stewarded Awesome Polis directory.

Landing page for a unofficial 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.

An unofficial Discord server for the Polis User Group (PUG). See PUG entry for details.

September 2024

Scripts and code to deploy PolisOrbis in a provisioned Amazon AWS infrastructure.

June 2024

PolisPilot is a demo Partici.app frontend for Polis, accessed via the ParticiAPI server.

December 2023

A very polished fork of Polis being built by affiliates of Code for NL

March 2022

The website code (hosted archive) and collected data of the Polis experiment running in the months prior to the LUC referendum in Uruguay.

October 2024

A platform using gamification and machine learning to promote discussions and participation in a virtual democracy. (EJ was started by previous Polis users.)

October 2024

An opinion research chatbot for Telegram and WhatsApp. (EJ was started by previous Polis users.)

March 2022

Example of a Proof-of-Humanity identity provider wrapper for any arbitary Polis conversation.

June 2022

A wrapper for Polis conversations held in the RadicalxChange community.

June 2022

RadicalxChange Voice is an app for decentralized democratic governance.

October 2023

A vTaiwan banner website for running a consultation (including Polis) within the Democracy Inputs to AI grant.

November 2024

A fully-launched Polis-centred platform for improved hosting experience and discoverability of public Polis conversations, from local up to international.

October 2024

A “storybook” instance to display frontend UI components from Polis and its forks, to allow more collaboration and experimentation on UX and accessibility improvements.

March 2016

Source for generating the Talkto.tw website codebase, which used Polis alongside livestreamed interviews of public figures.

August 2017

Polis-integrated media platform for the people of NYC to bring their ideas to city politics

November 2022

An interactive exhibit that integrated a fork of Polis into a multimedia Virtual Agora in-person event.

October 15, 2024

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.”

A Twitter list of folks who’ve built, used or just gotten really stoked about Polis or vTaiwan.

November 2024

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.)

September 2024

New UI experiment for a Polis-like platform.

November 2024

Open Source Headless CMS for Publishers and News Rooms, integrating Polis. Created in Switzerland.

August 2022

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.