November 2024

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

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.

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?

December 2024

A list of all GitHub repos (both source and forks) where Polis-related code exists.

November 2020

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

March 2016

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

November 2024

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)

January 2017

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

October 2023

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

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.

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.

November 2024

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).

December 2024

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.

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.

February 2025

A Polis implementation by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, where partici.app components where used.

May 2020

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

October 2024

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

March 2019

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

September 2022

Decidim module for integrating Polis into that platform.

December 2016

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

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

September 2024

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

October 2023

Data processing for the Collective Constitutional AI project (a collaboration between The Collective Intelligence Project & Anthropic)

May 9, 2024

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

June 2016

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

October 2024

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

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.

July 2017

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

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

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

February 2021

Wrapper for Polis discussion on Code for NL.

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.

November 2024

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)

June 2024

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

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.)

June 2022

A wrapper for Polis conversations held in the RadicalxChange community.

August 2024

An AI-powered code analysis assistant trained on the Polis codebase, designed to help developers navigate and understand complex codebases. Example 1 | Example 2

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.”

June 2024

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

April 2023

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

December 2018

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

November 2024

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)

September 2024

New UI experiment for a Polis-like platform.

July 2024

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.

August 2017

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

April 2024

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

December 2023

A Dutch working group for a Dutch version of Polis subsidised with the innovation fund afiliated to the Dutch Governement.

September 2024

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

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.

November 2024

A helpful bot for generating list of statements to use as seed statements when creating a conversation on Polis. Example

June 2024

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

August 2024

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

June 2017

A sandstorm auth wrapper for Polis.

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.

November 2024

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.

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 2024

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

December 2023

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

November 2024

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)

February 2025

The Partici.App documentation website for the PolisNL software project.

November 2024

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

November 2024

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)

November 2024

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

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. This was a Junction hackathon project (see other entry for details), within SITRA’s digital democracy challenge. (Finland)

November 2024

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)

February 2019

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

September 2014

An app for conferences built around pol.is

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.

November 2024

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

March 2025

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.

December 2024

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)

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

October 2024

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

August 2024

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

June 2022

RadicalxChange Voice is an app for decentralized democratic governance.

June 2020

Ansible playbook for deployment of Polis instances.

January 2021

A data exploration in Jupyter notebook.

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

March 2024

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.

November 2022

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

June 2024

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

August 2020

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

October 2023

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

June 2024

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

February 2022

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

September 2024

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

December 2017

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

March 2022

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

November 2019

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

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.

November 2024

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)

November 2024

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)

May 2023

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

November 2017

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

October 2023

A few scripts for running various experiments. Very incomplete.

November 2024

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