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Awesome Polis Awesome

A curated comprehensive list of resources and tools for using Polis and building things on top of it.

🚧 Until this line is removed, please consider this a work-in-progress.

Full spreadsheet of all known resources

Unlike some Awesome Lists, since the Polis development and practitioner community is rather nascent and disconnected, this list will start off as very COMPREHENSIVE, rather than CURATED. This means it will include code or projects even marginally related to Polis. This will include non-functional projects. At some point, once there is more maturity in the ecosystem, inactive or incomplete projects will likely migrated in a less prominent collaborative spreadsheet also listed amongst these resources.

Table of Contents

Maintainers

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Forks & Deployments

  • 2024-11: 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
  • 2024-10: 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
  • 2020-08: Demos UK - Polis fork run by the UK thinktank Demos. Source
  • 2023-07: DFE-Digital/polis-whitelabel - A pared-down fork of Polis created by the Gov.UK Policy Lab Source
  • 2023-10: Fork: Demdis - A Slovakian fork seeking to build a community around better ways of engaging in divisive conversations. Source
  • 2024-11: Fork: InnoPolis - A decentralized version of Pol.is built on Ethereum, for community engagement and decision-making with ML-powered opinion analysis. Source
  • 2023-10: Fork: Kennislink - A Dutch fork seeking to build a community around better ways of engaging in divisive conversations. Source
  • 2023-04: Fork: Polis DigiFinland v1 - An initial V1 set of deploy scripts, settings files, custom patches, translations and utilities for running Polis experiment deployments for DigiFinland. Source
  • 2024-09: 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
  • 2024-09: 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
  • 2022-11: Fork: sirodoht/suburb - Suburb is an experimental fork of Polis, with cleanup in code and infrastructure requirements.
  • 2024-11: Metropolis - A new Polis frontend and collective-response tool, funded for Filecoin governance and integrated with GitHub. Source
  • 2017-06: Pentano - An early iteration of the Pushing Together reimplementation of Polis. (Brazil)
  • 2021-03: Polis deployment: Crowd Wisdom Project - An unmodified deployment of the Polis codebase, hosted by the UK-based Crowd Wisdom Project. Source
  • 2023-08: Polis deployment: Polis.tw - An slightly modified deployment of the Polis codebase, hosted by PDIS.tw, a division of the Taiwanese national government. Source
  • 2023-12: polispilot/polis-whitelabel - A modified deployment of the Polis codebase, called Partici.app. Built by affiliates of Code for NL, related to PolisPilot. Source
  • 2023-05: Pushing Together (EJ Platform) - A comprehensive platform and funded project to create a social participation app, reimplementing Polis. (Brazil) Source
  • 2022-07: Tolerance Carousel - Code for deployed fork of Polis that paired with the Tolerance Carousel project.

Official

People

  • 2024-12: Bluesky List: Polis Practitioners - 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. Source
  • 2024-12: 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.
  • 2024-12: 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
  • 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: Polis User Group (PUG) - An unofficial Discord server for the Polis User Group (PUG). See PUG entry for details.
  • 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.
  • Discord: ZKorum / Agora - See entry for "Agora Citizen Network" project, a reimplementation of Polis.
  • 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)
  • 2022-05: 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2024-12: 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.)
  • 2024-12: 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.)

Uncategorized

  • 2024-05: 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
  • 2023-10: AIObjectives/community-notes-experiment - Analyses Polis data with Vitalik's simplified version of Community Notes algorithm, evaluating for quality and polarization.
  • 2024-06: 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
  • 2024-10: 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
  • 2019-03: audreyt/polis-tally - Polis export data and perl scripts for g0v.tw conversations, including Talkto.tw
  • 2020-06: ballPointPenguin/polis-playbook - Ansible playbook for deployment of Polis instances.
  • 2024-06: CivicTechTO/polis-moderator-hotkey - A Chrome extension allow polis moderator to accept/reject comments with hotkeys
  • 2024-10: Code for NL Slack - PolisPilot - Join the active #polis channel in this Slack team to participate in projects PolisPilot / Partici.app
  • 2021-02: codefornl/polis-splash - Wrapper for Polis discussion on Code for NL.
  • 2014-09: colinmegill/conference - An app for conferences built around pol.is
  • 2024-07: 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.
  • 2024-03: 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
  • 2019-02: Conversa - An experimental Ruby on Rails app attempting to reimplement the Polis frontend.
  • 2024-10-03: 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
  • 2024-08: Decidim-EJ - A Decidim module to integrate Pushing Together (EJ) into Decidim. (EJ was started by previous Polis users.)
  • 2024-06: DELiberation.io - A general-purpose deliberation platform to host online conversations, inspired by Polis. In talks with potential partners for field experiments. Source
  • 2020-08: 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.
  • 2017-07: 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.
  • 2024-11: eterps/polislite - A lightweight polis-like library, aspiring to reproduce the Polis math algorithms in Python.
  • 2024-09: Generative Policy - A research project to help create simulated preliminary policy recommendations, by simulating a Polis engagement with LLMs.
  • 2024-12: Github List: Polis-like - A list of all GitHub repos (both source and forks) where Polis-related code exists.
  • 2018-12: 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
  • 2021-10: jerojero/polis-tribu - 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.
  • 2023-10: JosephGubbels/delibdem - A few scripts for running various experiments. Very incomplete. Source
  • 2020-05: joshsmith2/polis-loadtesting - A series of Locust test to meaningfully load-test Pol.is instances
  • 2024-11: 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).
  • 2024-12: 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
  • 2024-11: 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
  • 2024-11: 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
  • 2024-11: 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
  • 2024-11: 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
  • 2024-11: 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)
  • 2024-11: 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
  • 2024-11: 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)
  • 2024-11: 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
  • 2024-11: 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
  • LegSim - A defunct virtual legislature platform founded in 2001 that integrated Polis. Source
  • 2024-11: MaanasArora/polis-ctto - A simple and efficient polis-like system built as a learning exercise by a contributor from Civic Tech Toronto.
  • 2016-12: MyDemocracy.ca - Mini-site wrapping Polis for a citizen-run online consultation experiment. Source
  • 2024-05-09: NewJerseyStyle/LitePolis - LitePolis is a WIP aiming provide a developer- and data-scientist-friendly port of Polis written in Python.
  • 2020-08: NewVote/newvote-rhok - NewVote was an online crowd-sourcing tool in Australia that integrates Polis, supports co-design, communication and decision-making. Source
  • 2024-12: 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
  • 2017-12: OpenSourcePolitics/decidim-efb - An example Decidim codebase with the Decidim::Polis module installed Source
  • 2022-09: OpenSourcePolitics/decidim-polis - Decidim module for integrating Polis into that platform. Source
  • 2014-09: 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.
  • 2016-06: padagraph/vTaiwanAirBnbImporter - An experiment with Airbnb Pol.is data, importing it into graph database.
  • 2024-06: Partici.app - An Alternative Polis frontend, used in the PolisPilot demo. (Kanban board) Source
  • 2024-06: Partici.app Docker - Support infrastructure to host Partici.app and their Polis fork.
  • 2024-06: ParticiAPI - A server providing an alternative API on top of the Polis database, supporting third-party frontends for the Polis project. Source
  • 2024-11: 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
  • 2024-09: Participa infra - Deployment scripts for deploying Participa platform alongside a self-hosted Polis instance.
  • 2024-04: patcon/astro-test-polis - A sample wrapper app for a Polis conversation, built on Astro framework. Source
  • 2023-04: patcon/polis-api-proxy - A Pol.is API proxy for experimenting with different API design choices. Source
  • 2024-10: patcon/polis-api-spec - An interactive Swagger API spec for documenting and exploring the Polis API Proxy endpoints. Source
  • 2021-01: 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
  • 2024-08: patcon/polis-exporter - An unfinished, messy work-in-progress set of scripts attempting to generate a Polis zipped export archive from public API endpoints.
  • 2022-02: patcon/polis-irl-simulator - A demo to show how Polis conversations might augment in-person meetings.
  • 2017-01: patcon/trump-polis-twitter-bot - A Twitter bot to auto-create Pol.is conversations for each Donald Trump tweet. Source
  • 2019-11: PDIS helper scripts - PDIS.tw scripts for performing various tasks directly on the Polis database of self-hosted instances.
  • 2017-07: PDIS/aframe-polis - An exploration of visualizing Polis results in the A-Frame web VR framework
  • 2017-11: PDIS/holopolis2017 - Polis-inspired Holopolis experiments in 3D, based on both Overte VR (née High Fidelity) and Unity VR platforms.
  • 2017-06: PDIS/sandstorm-external-site - A sandstorm auth wrapper for Polis.
  • 2023-05: 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
  • 2023-05: PluralCC/plural-discourse - A Discourse Forum fork intended to be used with the Polis-integrating pcc-consensus-polling Discourse plugin.
  • 2023-12: Polis IRL: Mobile NFC voting app - A prototype React-Native mobile app for IRL voting in Polis conversations via scanning assigned NFC stickers.
  • 2020-11: Polis Kubernetes Helm Chart - Configuration management code for setting up a Polis instance via Kubernetes.
  • 2021-01: Polis link prediction - A data exploration in Jupyter notebook.
  • 2021-03: 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.
  • 2024-11: Polis Resources Spreadsheet - The raw source material for this community-stewarded Awesome Polis directory.
  • 2024-09: PolisOrbis Deploy Blueprints - Scripts and code to deploy PolisOrbis in a provisioned Amazon AWS infrastructure.
  • 2024-06: PolisPilot Demo - PolisPilot is a demo Partici.app frontend for Polis, accessed via the ParticiAPI server. Source
  • 2023-12: PolisPilot.nl - A very polished fork of Polis being built by affiliates of Code for NL
  • 2022-03: proyectourgente/cuestionario-luc - The website code (hosted archive) and collected data of the Polis experiment running in the months prior to the LUC referendum in Uruguay. Source
  • 2024-10: 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
  • 2024-10: Pushing Together (EJ) bot - An opinion research chatbot for Telegram and WhatsApp. (EJ was started by previous Polis users.) Source
  • 2022-03: RoboTeddy/polis-poh-embed-example - Example of a Proof-of-Humanity identity provider wrapper for any arbitary Polis conversation. Source
  • 2022-06: RxC Conversations - A wrapper for Polis conversations held in the RadicalxChange community.
  • 2022-06: RxC Voice - RadicalxChange Voice is an app for decentralized democratic governance. Source
  • 2023-10: saffronh/ccai - Data processing for the Collective Constitutional AI project (a collaboration between The Collective Intelligence Project & Anthropic) Source
  • 2023-10: shuyanglin/vtaiwan-openai-2023 - A vTaiwan banner website for running a consultation (including Polis) within the Democracy Inputs to AI grant. Source
  • 2024-11: Society Speaks - A fully-launched Polis-centred platform for improved hosting experience and discoverability of public Polis conversations, from local up to international. Source
  • 2024-10: 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
  • 2016-03: Talk to Taiwan - Source for generating the Talkto.tw website codebase, which used Polis alongside livestreamed interviews of public figures. Source
  • 2017-08: Talkto.NYC - Polis-integrated media platform for the people of NYC to bring their ideas to city politics Source
  • 2022-11: Tolerance Carousel - An interactive exhibit that integrated a fork of Polis into a multimedia Virtual Agora in-person event. Source
  • 2024-10-15: 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."
  • 2024-11: 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
  • Twitter List: Polis-curious - A Twitter list of folks who've built, used or just gotten really stoked about Polis or vTaiwan.
  • 2024-09: Viewpoints.xyz - New UI experiment for a Polis-like platform. Source
  • 2024-11: WePublish - Open Source Headless CMS for Publishers and News Rooms, integrating Polis. Created in Switzerland. Source
  • 2022-08: 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

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