Projects
Members of Designing Open Democracy work on various democracy-related projects. Below is a full record of projects past and present — join our Telegram channel if you'd like to get involved in any active ones.
Active
An ongoing series in which AI systems from different national and cultural contexts review and critique DOD's governance philosophy framework — testing whether a standard claiming cross-cultural applicability can survive scrutiny from outside the Western liberal tradition.
Charlie
A practical toolkit for building participatory civics structures in Australia, covering cooperative governance, party member funding, and ecosystem design.
Brian Khuu
A proxy advisory service that replaces opaque corporate governance recommendations with decisions made by randomly selected pension fund members — giving members real democratic power over how their retirement savings vote at company AGMs.
Craig Lambie
A self-hosted, modular research framework with a built-in policy scoring system — allowing communities to directly rate and analyse policies, politicians, and special interest groups using a participatory democratic methodology.
Dausume
A prediction market platform that aggregates collective intelligence on policy questions — users stake structured predictions with reasons, and the system surfaces the informed consensus.
Hubertus Hofkirchner
Building short, factual articles on core democracy topics so the wiki is accessible to everyone.
Usmaan, Aya.elfadil
A Windows desktop app that creates a verifiable, auditable record of research and reporting — like a journalist's bodycam for their computer.
Austin
Mothballed
A crowdsourced website to make it easy to find and share the next election date for any country. The project is currently mothballed.
BrianKhuu, Usmaan
A Melbourne-based platform for collaborative democratic decision-making — citizens raise issues, propose options, review research, vote on solutions, and track outcomes. Non-partisan and designed to complement rather than replace existing government.
Danny Johnson
A Melbourne-based policy development platform intended to help the public, institutions, and politicians make better policies — presented at a Designing Open Democracy event in 2019.
Guy Kennedy