Neighbourhood Democracy Movement
Event: A Conversation About Polis with Crowd Wisdom Project
A Conversation About Polis: NDM & Crowd Wisdom Project
Collate wisdom and find harmony.
NDM are honoured to invite you into a conversation about Polis, hosted by the Crowd Wisdom Project who seek to collate wisdom and find harmony. Join us on Zoom, Wed 13 July 11:00am - 12:30pm. Register here.
Founded by a British activist lawyer, Andy Gray, Crowd Wisdom Project are a non-profit organisation, trying to make the world a better place, one project at a time.
‘We believe that people are good. We believe that people want the best for their communities, for their workplaces and for their countries.
By using the best survey technology – Polis – through crowds, we collate wisdom and find harmony. The climate emergency demands that we all must make difficult compromises.’
Crowd Wisdom Project uses open source, copylefted machine-learning technology – Polis – to run online conversations. These facilitated conversations are living, breathing, thinking affairs, unlike all other survey tools before it. Polis has been used to seismic effect in Taiwan, revolutionising their decision-making, whilst quelling antagonism. (Taiwan certainly has much to teach us about responding to a pandemic.)
Andy will be joined by Andy Paice who works as a consultant advising and supporting local authorities to empower and bring the public into decision making processes. His role is to make sure that it’s not just people’s votes that count but also their voices. His work is to design, convene and facilitate fair, democratic processes to do just that. The goal every time is to find wise mutually beneficial solutions.
The session will share the story of Polis and how it has been both internationally and locally.
There will be time for questions and answers to enable you to consider how this may work for you where you live, work and play.
https://crowdwisdomproject.org/about-us/
Learn more about the event and register here.
