ProjectPlural RealityMaking the issues, conflicts, and uncertainty behind agreement visible so that meetings and civic participation can move forward.ProjectOtoineppuDeveloping technology in the field to connect residents' words to local decision-making in a village of around 600 people.ProjectCivichat / OpenFisca JapanA technical attempt to narrow the gap in access to social support caused by simply not knowing which institutions exist.ContextDigital Public GoodsIf governments support physical public goods, why are digital public goods so hard to sustain?ProjectDeCartographyAn experiment in making a more neutral map of coordination from a crowdsourced social graph.ProjectQuadratic Funding ExperimentsTesting public-goods allocation methods developed in Web3 in civic-tech settings in Shibuya and across Japan.ContextPluralityExploring institutions and technology that allow collaboration without erasing differences.ProjectFunding the Commons Tokyo ’24Bringing international discussion about public goods and people doing the work in Japan into one place.WritingA Kardashev Scale for DemocracyNotes on using Futarchy to separate decisions from predictions and increase the resolution of democracy.
