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What Is Democracy Routes?

Democracy Routes is an open-source platform for structured deliberation, community coordination, and durable civic memory.

It helps a community run conversations, publish careful updates, reuse deliberation formats, and keep track of decisions and follow-up work over time.

What It Connects

  • Community spaces: long-lived homes for groups, projects, or civic initiatives.
  • Meetings: live, remote, or in-person conversations with recording, transcription, summaries, and facilitation support.
  • Templates: reusable process designs for assemblies, workshops, interviews, consultations, and deliberation flows.
  • Public updates: reviewed summaries that can be published to a public page, RSS, and optionally the Fediverse.
  • Open problems: issues that need participation, evidence, discussion, and action.
  • Routes: the connective memory between problems, meetings, evidence, proposals, decisions, and next steps.

Who It Is For

Democracy Routes is designed for communities that need more than chat and calendar tools:

  • neighborhood groups;
  • civic tech communities;
  • participatory research projects;
  • cooperatives and associations;
  • public consultation organizers;
  • deliberative democracy experiments;
  • networks that want public transparency without exposing raw private conversation data.

Core Principle

Private working space and public civic memory are separate.

Raw transcripts, recordings, internal notes, participant identities, private summaries, and AI traces are not made public just because a community page is public. Public updates are explicit reviewed snapshots.