🎙️ Paul Nemitz is a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, where he teaches AI law and data protection law. As a retired director and principal adviser at the European Commission, he led the conceptual work that brought the GDPR onto the law books and was involved in the AI Act.

Paul Nemitz on AI’s threat to democracy, Big Tech power & decentralization

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🎙️ Thomas Lorenz built Brief Nach Berlin, an open-source tool that helps citizens formulate concerns and address them to the right politician. His approach combines AI with a surprisingly human form of political communication: handwritten letters.

Thomas Lorenz on Brief nach Berlin, lowering barriers to participation & open-source civic tech

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🎙️ Terry Bouricius is a former Vermont lawmaker and democracy reformer who has spent decades exploring the use of random selection in democracy. His experience inside electoral politics gives him a distinctive perspective on its limits and on whether elections are as democratic as we assume.

Terry Bouricius on multi-body sortition and redesigning democratic lawmaking

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🎙️ Malik Lakoubay co-leads the Civilization Options Fund at Dark Matter Labs, where he builds financial architectures to fund civic and democratic infrastructure. He has worked on quadratic voting, data ownership, and civic tech projects across the US, Latin America, and Europe.

Malik Lakoubay from Dark Matter Labs on financing civic infrastructure and democratic innovation

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🎙️ Olivier Schulbaum is co-founder of Platoniq, working at the intersection of participation, culture, social innovation, and democratic experimentation. With a background in art, documentary filmmaking, open licensing, and civic technology, he approaches democracy from various angles.

Olivier Schulbaum on democracy after the platform and the struggle for democratic infrastructures

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🎙️ Ryan Koch is the host of the Civic Tech Chat podcast and a software engineer working in government technology. After more than seven years and 100+ episodes, he followed the evolution of civic tech from volunteer communities into a more professional field.

Ryan Koch from the Civic Tech Chat podcast on civic innovation and effective use of AI

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🎙️ Simon Horton is the founder of Negotiation Mastery. He is a negotiation expert, author, and lecturer who has taught negotiation for more than 20 years.

Simon Horton on negotiation, conflict resolution, and how AI can help end war

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🎙️ Gianluca Misuraca is Vice President of International Relations at Inspiring Futures. Drawing on his international experience in innovation and digital democratic governance, Gianluca offers insights into how societies can influence technological change while maintaining democratic control.

Gianluca Misuraca from Inspiring Futures on AI in the public sector

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🎙️ @anthonyzach.be is the founder of Democratic Society, an organisation that works across Europe to build democratic infrastructure and improve participation in government. With over 15 years' experience in this field, he offers a realistic perspective on politics, democracy and civic tech.

Anthony Zacharzewski from Democratic Society on democratic infrastructure, participation and power

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🎙️ Alvaro Oleart is an academic researcher based at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels. He offers a critical yet visionary perspective on current developments in institutions and technology.

Alvaro Oleart on the instrumentalisation of EU participation processes & limits of AI for democracy

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🎙️ Alberto Fernandez Gibaja is the head of the Digitalization and Democracy Programme at International IDEA. His work and expertise focuses on the intersection of technology and democracy, especially from a regulatory perspective and the impact of technology on the state of democracy.

Alberto Fernandez Gibaja from International IDEA on technology and democracy

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🎙️ Alice Casiraghi is a systemic designer working on sustainability, circular economy, regenerative systems, and public services. Through her systemic approach, she gives new perspectives on participation of citizens and beyond.

Alice Casiraghi on designing regenerative systems, public services, and democratic participation

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🎙️ Paolo Spada is a political scientist at the University of Southampton. His work focuses on participatory budgeting, citizen assemblies, democratic innovation, and the politics of scaling participation.

Paolo Spada on participatory budgeting, citizen assemblies, and scaling democratic innovation

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🎙️ Antoine Vergne is the co-director of Missions Publiques and the co-author of the ScaleDem Analytical Framework. His passion for innovating democratic processes is reflected in his academic background in political science and his nearly 15 years at Missions Publiques.

Antoine Vergne from Missions Publiques on scaling deliberative decision-making and random selection

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(🇮🇹 Italien episode) 🎙️ Giovanni Di Sotto is CEO and founder of Multicast, a company working on electronic voting, digital governance, & assembly management. This episode focuses on one of the most practical questions in democratic innovation: what does it take to make electronic voting trustworthy?

Giovanni Di Sotto su Multicast, voto elettronico e governance digitale

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🎙️ Paul Zeitz is an author and advocate for global justice and human rights. With over 35 years of experience and several publications he is addressing systemic challenges. Especially in his book "Hit Refresh on the U.S. Constitution", he calls for more deliberation in our democracies.

Paul Zeitz about permanent citizens' assemblies in the US and using technology to scale it

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🎙️ Ben Nelson is founder and CEO of the Minerva Project and founder of the Minerva University. His mission is to reinvent higher education by utilizing a systematic and evidence-based approach to learning. He offers valuable insights into the relationship between education and democracy.

Ben Nelson on the Minerva Project, reforming higher education and its role for democracy

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🎙️ Cecile Green is a social entrepreneur and Seth Frey is a computational social scientist. They share a mission to enable healthy self-organization and improve relationships in society, which naturally impacts democracy. Together, they work on the Commoning Standard for effective self-governance.

Cecile Green & Seth Frey on the Commoning Standard and the role of self-governance for democracy

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Sylvain Le Bon is co-founder of Startin’blox, a company that helps building data spaces. Drawing on his extensive entrepreneurial experience, Sylvain provides an overview of data spaces and their role in establishing the foundation for digital democracy.

Sylvain Le Bon from Startin'blox about Data Spaces, Democracy and Interoperability

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🎙️ Jorge Lagarto is director at LabX, a center for public sector innovation. With many years of experience in the field, Jorge provides clear guidance on making services more citizen-friendly by integrating their needs and expectations.

Jorge Lagarto about LabX and human centric design in the public sector

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Wietse van Ransbeeck is the CEO and co-founder of Go Vocal, a leading platform for community engagement. The company partners with over 600 municipalities and cities worldwide to facilitate citizen dialogue and provide governments with insights for better decision-making.

Wietse van Ransbeeck

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🎙️ Marcello Coppa has a background in economics and communications. He has 15 years' experience in innovation management and consultancy. As CEO of the Feel Community and curator of the GoVTech Forum, he is working to accelerate innovation in public systems.

Marcello Coppa on the Feel Community, the Govtech Forum and accelerating innovation

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🎙️ Stefaan Verhulst, PhD is co-founder of the Governance Laboratory (The GovLab), a research center that is focused on transforming decision-making by using advances in science and technology. We talked about legitimate and effective decision-making and the importance of asking the right questions.

Stefaan Verhulst about governance, decision-making and how to ask good questions

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🎙️ Yuting JIANG is CEO and co-founder of the Agora Citizen Network. The Agora tool was inspired by the well-known Polis platform. Yuting has a sound understanding of how modern technologies can improve democratic processes and offers interesting insights into future developments.

Yuting Jiang on the Agora Citizen Network, Polis and bridging-based algorithms

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🎙️ Matt Stempeck is founder and curator of the @civictechguide.bsky.social, which lists civic tech projects from all over the world. With 20 years experience in civic tech, Matt has a profound understanding of what makes a project successful and what makes it fail.

Matt Stempeck on the Civic Tech Field Guide and why projects succeed or fail

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