How Can I Get Involved With Plurality?

December 4, 2024

Whether you are a researcher, builder, policymaker, or enthusiast (or something else!), there are many different ways that you can get involved with the Plurality ecosystem. In this post, we will outline six pathways for getting involved.

Engage with Plurality Institute
Contribute to the Plurality Book project
Use and contribute to plural technologies
Engage with the ecosystem
Keep learning
Start something new

1. Engage with Plurality Institute

There are a number of ways to engage with Plurality Institute:

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‍Attend conferences and events: Plurality Institute periodically hosts and highlights a range of events related to the Plurality ecosystem – from research conferences, to happy hours, to reading and discussion groups. For the latest list of upcoming Plurality events, check out the event page here.‍
Join the conversation: Join the Plurality Institute discord here. Please introduce yourself in the #introductions channel!
Stay in the loop: Follow us on X and subscribe to the Plurality Institute newsletter: [Insert subscription form here]
Share ideas: If you are working on a plurality-related project or event that could benefit from being shared with our network, feel free to post it in our Discord or share via email.‍
‍Contribute skills: Volunteer to help with grant-writing, community outreach, or event support. If you want to get involved let us know on our Discord or send us an email.

2. Contribute to The Plurality Book Project

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The Plurality book by Glen Weyl and Audrey Tang is a free and open source book project that discusses many key ideas and projects in the Plurality ecosystem. You can read the book here or here and contribute to the project in a number of ways. There is a guide for new contributors to the project here. You can also follow the project on X here.

3. Use and Contribute to Plural Technologies

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Plural technologies are broadly reusable computational systems that facilitate cooperation across diversity. You can use and contribute to existing plural technology projects in a variety of ways. Here are a few visible examples:

Pol.is: Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning. Pol.is is an open source project stewarded by the Computational Democracy Project. You can engage with Pol.is by using the tool, reading about Pol.is case studies, or contributing to the project. Learn how you can volunteer with the Computational Democracy Project.

Community Notes: Community Notes is a feature on X where contributors can add context such as fact-checks under a post, image or video. It is a community-driven content moderation program, intended to provide helpful and informative context, based on a crowd-sourced system.” (wiki). You can engage with Community Notes by becoming a note contributor, or by contributing to the open source project.
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Gov4Git: Gov4Git is a decentralized protocol for governing open-source communities based on git. It is a holistic framework for lifelong governance of open-source projects, which is secure, flexible, transparent, and pluralistic. You can engage with Gov4Git by using the tool, or by contributing on github.
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Bridging Systems: Bridging systems are systems that increase mutual understanding and trust across divides, creating space for productive conflict, deliberation, or cooperation. You can engage with bridging systems by building tools and algorithms that apply the principles of bridging.
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Gitcoin: Gitcoin builds tools that enable communities to build, fund and protect what matters to them.

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Are you building a plural technology that you would like to have added to this list? Let us know.

4. Engage with the Ecosystem

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You can also get involved with other organizations and projects in and around the Plurality ecosystem. A non-exhaustive list:

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RadicalxChange: RadicalxChange is a nonprofit organization dedicated to democratic innovation and institutional design through operational partnerships and experimental projects between academia, government, art, technology, and beyond. Follow them on X or join their discord.

Plurality Tokyo: Plurality Tokyo is a community influenced by the Plurality movement based in Tokyo, Japan. Join the community.

Collective Intelligence Project: CIP is an incubator for new governance models for transformative technology. You can read their research, follow them on X, or donate.

Metagov: Metagov is a laboratory for digital governance, working towards a governance layer for the internet that is empowering, creative, interconnected, and accountable. Join the community, subscribe to their newsletter or learn more about their projects.

AI & Democracy Foundation: he AI & Democracy Foundation is working towards a world where democratic capacity can keep pace with AI advances. Subscribe to their newsletter.

AI Objectives Institute: The AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core, enabled by broad public input and scalable cooperation. Subscribe for updates.

‍GETTING-Plurality at Harvard: Governance of Emerging Technology and Tech Innovations for Next-Gen Governance (GETTING-Plurality) is a multi-disciplinary research network linking philosophers, social scientists, computer scientists, legal scholars, and technologists. are building a unique collaborative that unites tech ethics initiatives at Harvard University with external impact partners across higher education and the tech industry, bringing philosophers and ethicists to the table for every project.

Funding the Commons: Funding the Commons builds bridges between builders, researchers & funders, transforming funding models & mechanisms for public goods. Check out their events or support them.

5. Keep Learning

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Plurality Institute maintains an extensive archive of talks, research articles, and media related to the Plurality ecosystem.

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6. Start Something New

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The g0v movement has a common slogan: ask not, "Why is nobody doing this?" You are the nobody!

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In other words, if you see a need that is unfilled in the ecosystem, you can be the person to address it! Feel free to reach out to us if we can share or promote your work.

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Some ideas:

Contribute to the academic & research conversation on Plurality. See our research page for a place to start.
Build a new plural technology or tool! (see part 5 of the Plurality book for some ideas and directions)
Start a reading and discussion group in your field or area.