Newsletter December 2024

Dear Friends,

This year will always remain firm in our memory. It was the year we took a bold leap to start this new non-profit organization: Common Good AI. 

The last 12 months have shown the power of navigating challenges together, as we used adaptive thinking to guide our way. We established Common Good AI because we see tremendous opportunities to foster community-based problem solving using digital collaboration at scale. As we look across 2024 and now forward to 2025, we are further emboldened that our vision to use new tools to promote inclusive civic engagement can happen if we continue to adapt and solve problems together. 

In this newsletter, we share another exciting case study using the CrowdSmart tool, as well as a white paper that explains the technology ‘under the hood’. We also include recently published analysis on the ‘digital public square’ and prospects and risks for shifting the paradigm to conversations at scale, informed by 70 civil society and tech experts. 

Thank you to everyone who supported our work this year. You made this a reality that we will continue to pursue in 2025.

Sincerely,

Victoria Stanski, Managing Director

with Founders, John Seely Brown, John Clippinger, John Cordier, Tom Kehler, and Kim Polese