Why is it important that deliberative and democratic technology is open source?

When communities use digital tools to deliberate, participate, and make collective decisions together, questions of ownership, transparency, and control are never just technical, they are deeply political. Recent developments in the digital democracy space have prompted many of us to ask: who should govern the platforms that govern participation? What are the risks when open infrastructure moves into private hands? And what does genuine technological sovereignty look like in practice? This community call explores these questions. It will be a space to think through what open source software makes possible for the future of democratic tooling. For this call we are fortunate to have Iñaki Goñi as a guest presenter.

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