RadicalxChange is an international nonprofit advancing participatory governance in the age of AI. We build and field-test mechanisms that let people who disagree steward what they share, with partners, at real scale.
We also advance the practice: open research, monthly Salons, and a community of chapters in more than thirty cities.
We partner with community champions and sector leaders, people with the local knowledge, credibility and networks to bring genuine diversity of perspective to every engagement. Recent results:
9 in 10
engaged opponents would accept a development they dislike if their community had real power over what gets built.
Density done well, Sydney. 2,535 Australians surveyed; 172 residents across 8 councils deliberated with Pol.is, quadratic voting and small groups. With AMPLIFY, June to July 2026.
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agreed that communities need a real way to challenge how AI represents their tradition.
Can AI see me? 39 faith leaders and participants deliberated on 84 statements at an official side event of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, distilling ten Geneva Reflection Principles delivered to the UN. With Parity, Sikh LGBT+ Inclusion and Free Community Church, July 2026.
Read the ten principles91%
of New York's community builders agreed their work deserves the same recognition and resourcing as the creator economy.
Community Week NYC. 51 participants, 44 statements, 1,244 votes on Pol.is about what a community economy could look like. With Sugary NYC and Week Nights, May 2026.
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prioritised next steps for bringing arts and culture into healthcare, from 73 leaders and 106 statements.
ASPIRE Canberra Policy Lab. National and international practitioners and researchers deliberated at the Museum of Australian Democracy toward a shared health-and-culture evidence framework. With ASPIRE, August 2026.
Read the case studyTools developed by our community to counter polarisation, add nuance to debate, reshape asset stewardship, give people leverage over their data, and set priorities across policy, budgets and resources.
| Mechanism | What it does | Where it's been tried | With |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plural votingalso known as quadratic voting | Everyone gets the same budget of voice credits. Extra votes on one issue cost more each time, so intensity counts without a loud minority dominating. | Colorado legislature, Nashville council, NYC participatory budgeting, Sydney | Colorado General Assembly, Nashville Metro Council, NYC Council District 9, AMPLIFY |
| Plural assemblies | Structured deliberation, usually with Pol.is: participants vote on each other's statements, and the map shows where divided groups actually agree. | Sydney, Canberra, Geneva, Colorado citizens' assembly | AMPLIFY, ASPIRE, Parity, The Civic Canopy, Healthy Democracy |
| Plural fundingalso known as quadratic funding | Small donations are matched according to how many people gave, not how much, so public goods that many care about get funded first. | Gitcoin Grants, more than $60M distributed | Gitcoin |
| Plural ownership | Time-limited stewardship with a recurring public fee, so assets serve the people around them rather than sit idle. | Partial common ownership pilot, pco.art | Serpentine Arts Technologies |
| Collective data bargainingdata dignity in practice | Publishers serve their content to AI systems from servers they control, on their own terms and for payment, and form consortia so they bargain as one rather than one by one. | Indonesia, more than 500 outlets, Uruguay, Denmark | OpenMined, AMSI, International Fund for Public Interest Media |
| Plural money | Community currencies backed by a shared trust pool. | Edge Esmeralda, Edge City Lanna | Edge City |
We also support and deploy ecosystem tools including Pol.is, Talk to the City, Context Engine, Agora, Tapir, Voqua and Gitcoin.
Governments, institutions, community organisations and research partners.
Salons, podcast, papers and announcements, alongside the archive of everything we've published since 2018.
RadicalxChange Salon: Reverse AlignmentAlignment is a two-sided problem. Billions go into aligning AI with human values and almost nothing into preparing institutions, economies and democracies to receive it. Members of the 23-author coalition behind the Noema essay open up its sociotechnical grand challenges. August 24, 2026.
So we pair open research with civic-tech prototypes, run them with real partners and communities, and feed what we learn back into policy proposals and further pilots. That's the civic muscle participatory governance actually requires, and it's built in public: through our Salons and podcast, through papers and proposals like the Plural Stack and Reverse Alignment, and through a global community that tests these ideas in its own cities.
About the Foundation, the team and our approachThe Foundation's board includes E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang, Vitalik Buterin, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. RadicalxChange grew out of the ideas in Radical Markets and Plurality, and remains the home of the movement those books started.
Chapters are autonomous and driven by their own local character, from Amsterdam to Auckland, Mexico City to Mumbai. Every chapter operates under our code of conduct.