Project Update: Interoperable Deliberative Tools in 2026

First Four Tools Join Schema for Interoperability

And we're looking for more

Testing Deliberative Technologies to Identify Optimal Use | Toda Peace Institute

Deliberative technologies are software tools that help create large-scale dialogue among participants. This article outlines the experience of testing four of these tools—Crowdsmart, Pol.is, Talk to the City, and Deliberation.io—with a group of student volunteers to understand their function and effectiveness, and to identify digital facilitation strategies. The paper concludes with recommendations to make deliberative […]

MIRA 2026 - Modular Interoperable Research Attribution

Catalyzing Modular Interoperable Research Attribution - A workshop to design and prototype interoperable frameworks for modular research attribution. June 7-11, 2026 in Ireland.

Release v0.7.0 · idiolect-dev/idiolect

Added dev.idiolect.deliberation, dev.idiolect.deliberationStatement, dev.idiolect.deliberationVote, and dev.idiolect.deliberationOutcome lexicons. The four together model community-scoped delibera...

Sebastian Raschka on Twitter / X

Pretty cool. I think 2025-2026 will be a stronger focus on these in open source tooling.I.e. having LLMs delegate knowledge-based queries to search, which in turn frees up model capacity to improve reasoning capabilities and tool use. https://t.co/wNTg283mb2— Sebastian Raschka (@rasbt) August 12, 2025

[Proposal] WG for group/community standards and infrastructure in ATProto

TLDR: I’m proposing a working group to develop shared interoperable standards for community infrastructure within ATProto. Many teams are independently making foundational design decisions about group/community membership, governance, and infrastructure. Without coordination, a de facto standard will calcify from momentum rather than deliberate evaluation of the ranges of community needs. I provide initial questions and principles to start discussion. Many people, apps and projects in developme...

Aspiration | Better Tools for a Better World

It's our 23rd Anniversary! Nonprofit staff, developers, capacity builders, and grassroots activists will convene at the 2026 Nonprofit Software Development Summit, 18-20 November, 2026, to share knowledge, build capacity, and collectively envision the future of free, open and equitable digital tools and practices to support social change efforts.

in progress works

lightweight accountability community and journal for your side projects

singi-labs/sifa-workspace

Sifa project coordination and issue tracking

The Computational Democracy Project

Tools for deliberative democracy.

Patrick Collison on Twitter / X

I want some kind of LLM workflow tool.• Ability to manage a set of input files (Markdown or similar), plus other general-purpose context.• With real-time collaboration. (And maybe some concept of snapshots or VCS integration.)• And the ability to create/manage a inference…— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) June 6, 2026

2026 List of Identity and Related Conferences and Standards Development Events

Agenda and minutes of meetings of the Federated Identity Community Group - fedidcg/meetings