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Better tools for democratic decision-making, reducing polarization, and improving public discourse. Grants and projects supporting civic technology, debate platforms, prediction markets, and sense-making tools.

Prediction Markets and Civil Society

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Prediction Markets and Civil Society

GoodAncestor recently met with Metaculus CEO Deger Turan and core team in Puerto Rico to discuss new collaborations and possibilities for using Metaculus prediction markets to improve the democratic process using bill and legislation data from WeVote. Deger was previously CEO of AI Objectives institute when Good Ancestor provided a

Open 2 Debate plans AI debate

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Open 2 Debate plans AI debate

Grantee Open2Debate has an amazing set of public debates online on many topics, and they are expanding their debate focus on incoming AI topics. Their tagline is "Expert moderation. Good-faith arguments. Reasoned analysis." and we believe this is absolutely essential to a functioning democracy and society. We support

Nuclear Energy - Improving Debates with Society Library

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Nuclear Energy - Improving Debates with Society Library

One of our first supported donor grants was to assist the Benjamin Franklin Society Library in eliciting expert analysis on the topic of nuclear power, pulling together the best arguments for and against it. We were confused by the opposing narratives of Germany (and California) shutting down all their nuclear

Foresight Institute Microgrants and Conference in Puerto Rico

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Foresight Institute Microgrants and Conference in Puerto Rico

We're attending Foresight's 2024 Vision Weekend in San Juan Puerto Rico. This year, in addition to a sustaining donation, thanks to our generous donors we were able to sponsor 5 $10k micro-grants for Foresight Community initiatives. Foresight is famous for convening nerds thinking deeply about some

Hylo - Tools for purpose driven communities

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Hylo - Tools for purpose driven communities

Good Ancestor completed a year end 2x matching grant for funding Hylo.com milestone development, which includes onboarding for some of our ecosystem partners such as Open Source Ecology and the Open Building Institute. Hylo is an open source tool for initiatives to build their own internal social networks, and

"Talk to the City" achieves milestone

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"Talk to the City" achieves milestone

The best way to understand Talk to the city is to see it in use. It is an open source library that pulls a set of public conversations (from tweets to private surveys) and then analyzes, groups and digests them using LLMs to create a better form of comprehensible constituency

WeVote - Annual Report 2024

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WeVote - Annual Report 2024

In addition to helping with the Internet Democracy Project and Talk to the City Projects, WeVote also launched a prototype of a direct democracy website full of open source information as part of their grant. Here are some of their progress metrics taken from their annual report: 1. Launching a

Clearer Thinking module on Social Biases Released

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Clearer Thinking module on Social Biases Released

Check out their latest learning module release here on social biases called "How Other People Can Make You Irrational". Why do we support Spencer Greenberg and Clearer Thinking? Spencer has for more than a decade been one of our society's most credible and tireless advocates for

Civic, Social and Govtech Grantmaking

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Civic, Social and Govtech Grantmaking

Civic and Govtech Development Grants This initiative provides early stage grants and assistance for non-profits working to improve US Democracy, political polarization, sense making, and decision making processes that affect civil society. - Clearer Thinking - co-creation of learning modules on bias and sense making - We Vote Project -

Public Editor - A sense making tool released

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Public Editor - A sense making tool released

Goodly Labs has just released Public Editor, a unique way to provide annotation, identifying cognitive biases and manipulations in documents that goes beyond politicized 'fact checking'. Get the Browser Extension: https://tinyurl.com/kejjsbzz Daily Newsfeed: https://newsreader.publiceditor.io/ Feedback form: https://forms.gle/mc8bEkqXH9hh2yvQ7 Good Ancestor

Internet Democracy Project

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Internet Democracy Project

The "Internet Democracy Project", is an open source collaborative and secure environment for political and community groups to debate, vote and ally on common principals and leadership, and to gather constituent opinions using modern LLM driven feedback tools. We collaborated with grantees Ideas Beyond Borders and AI Objectives

OpenBallot Released at Plurality Institute

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OpenBallot Released at Plurality Institute

Good Ancestor provided the initial grant to the Plurality Institute for its Open Ballot voter guide software. Read about why this is important here. Voter guides and liquid democracy help to raise the collective intelligence of the voting system by delegating trust. OpenBallotLead the way, together.OpenBallot