Smarter Together is a non-profit whose purpose is to study, design, develop and evaluate democratic innovations and collaborative governance mechanisms in the public field and within organizations. We want to expand governments’ and communities’ ability to solve public problems more effectively, by fostering more inclusive and deliberative governance around the world.

Our mission: To expand governments’ and communities’ ability to solve public problems more effectively, by fostering more inclusive and deliberative governance around the world.

Our vision: A world in which democracy is strengthened because it develops more effective solutions to public problems, in ways that are seen as more legitimate, and more in tune with people’s deeper values and emotions.

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Non-profit organization

Objectives

1. To expand governments’ and communities’ ability to solve public problems more effectively;
2. To foster more inclusive and deliberative governance around the world;
3. To share the good practices of well-thought and well-designed collective intelligence.

Main Activities

1. WEBINAR: Smarter Together’s webinars are designed for a large audience to disseminate the good practices of Collective Intelligence. Each webinar takes concrete examples, methodologies and tools applied to a public problem.

2. MASTERCLASS: Smarter Together designs and organizes tailored masterclasses for actors involved in policy making, advocacy, research and social innovation. In 1 or 2 day-format, experts and facilitators work with the participants to apply Collective Intelligence’s methods to their own work and challenges.

3. KNOWLEDGE CREATION & DISSEMINATION: Smarter Together produces content adapted to policy makers and civil society actors to help them address public problems. Smarter Together’s platforms (website, social media, newsletter) put forward methods and stories of Collective Intelligence in different forms: articles, video interviews of academic and policy experts & podcasts.

4. NETWORK BUILDING: Smarter Together’s events gather a community of experts concerned and interested in Collective Intelligence for democracy and governance.

Strengths

1. Our network: 70 contributors to The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance published in June 2023 that present collective intelligence’s principles and methods through 40 case studies from all around the world.
2. Our expertise: thanks to our wide network of experts, we are able to apply Collective Intelligence’s methods to many important public challenges, ranging from climate change, mobility, protection of environment to citizens’ participation, social justice, and more.

Finance and Main Partners

Powered and supported by:

Dreamocracy: a consultancy that fosters collective creativity for the common good through analysis, advice to organisations, and by developing and implementing innovative stakeholder management processes. Our unique experience is at the intersection of public affairs / policy making and collective intelligence / creativity.

Porticus: philanthropic organisation focused on creating a just and sustainable future where human dignity flourishes.

Stiftung Mercator: a private and independent foundation. Through the projects it supports and through its own activities, it is committed to a society characterized by openness to the world, solidarity and equal opportunities.

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