Rewiring Democracy Series on The Renovator (www.schneier.com)
<p>Nathan E. Sanders and I are writing a series of essays on real-world examples of democratic technologies for <cite>The Renovator</cite>. I haven’t been posting the full text on the blog because they’re a bit long, but here are links.</p>
<p><a href="https://therenovator.substack.com/p/rewiring-democracy-now">Part 1</a> is about the Japanese digital democracy party, Team Mirai.</p>
<p><a href="https://therenovator.substack.com/p/rewiring-democracy-now-switzerland">Part 2</a> is about the Swiss Public AI model, Apertus.</p>
<p><a href="https://therenovator.substack.com/p/rewiring-democracy-ai-and-the-struggle">Part 3</a> is about the civic technologists of Open Knowledge Brazil.</p>
<p>And the new one, <a href="https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2026/08/rewiring-democracy-citizen-science-leads-to-civic-ai-in-scotland.html">Part 4</a>, is about civic AI in Scotland.</p>
<p><a href="https://therenovator.substack.com/p/rewiring-democracy-now">Part 1</a> is about the Japanese digital democracy party, Team Mirai.</p>
<p><a href="https://therenovator.substack.com/p/rewiring-democracy-now-switzerland">Part 2</a> is about the Swiss Public AI model, Apertus.</p>
<p><a href="https://therenovator.substack.com/p/rewiring-democracy-ai-and-the-struggle">Part 3</a> is about the civic technologists of Open Knowledge Brazil.</p>
<p>And the new one, <a href="https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2026/08/rewiring-democracy-citizen-science-leads-to-civic-ai-in-scotland.html">Part 4</a>, is about civic AI in Scotland.</p>
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