geo.pol.is

What is geo.pol.is?

A new open source, nonprofit platform based on Polis, designed to scale public conversations at the city level. We've run many discussions with thousands of participants at city and country scale, making meaning of all that data in ways that were previously manual and time-consuming.

Why we built this

Traditional methods of gathering public opinion are broken. Comment sections are turned off, social media platforms fragment discussions, and city-specific platforms have failed to scale effectively.

We've created bottom-up opinion infrastructure for cities at a time when public trust in institutions is declining. Our platform enables productive civic discourse that scales - from local communities like Newham (London) to global metropolises around the world, and even entire nations like Pakistan.

How it works

We've overcome previous bottlenecks in:

• Number of submitted comments
• Participant accessibility
• Duration of open discussions
• Data science processing requirements

The result? More people participate because they trust the process, see meaning being made of their contributions, and know their voice is connected to power.

Open Infrastructure

All data and analytics on geo.pol.is are open, serving as a foundational layer for political speech worldwide. Powered by the groundbreaking pol.is 2, we aim to be a fast, small, tight operation that makes this infrastructure globally available.

Explore geo.pol.is

Browse through live examples of our platform in action around the world: