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Rewiring Democracy Series on The Renovator

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Schneier and Sanders link a four-part Rewiring Democracy essay series covering civic AI in Japan, Switzerland, Brazil and Scotland.

Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders announced links to their Rewiring Democracy essay series on The Renovator. The four parts cover Japan's digital democracy party Team Mirai, Switzerland's public AI model Apertus, Brazil's Open Knowledge civic technologists, and civic AI in Scotland. The post is a brief index without technical details.

  • Series examines real-world democratic technology implementations
  • Part 2 covers Switzerland's Apertus public AI model
  • Part 1 covers Japan's Team Mirai digital democracy party
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Nathan E. Sanders and I are writing a series of essays on real-world examples of democratic technologies for The Renovator. I haven’t been posting the full text on the blog because they’re a bit long, but here are links.

Part 1 is about the Japanese digital democracy party, Team Mirai.

Part 2 is about the Swiss Public AI model, Apertus.

Part 3 is about the civic technologists of Open Knowledge Brazil.

And the new one, Part 4, is about civic AI in Scotland.

Tags: AI, democracy, LLM, Rewiring Democracy

Posted on September 1, 2026 at 5:59 AM4 Comments

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