2024-11-15T20:06:46-05:00 2023-12-31 Landon Accounting 6516 W Crestview Loop SE Snoqualmie WA 98065 990EZ 2023-01-01 831486591 Math & Democracy MATH 99 Wall St STE 1434 New York NY 10005 Andrew Smith Operations Mana 5419122333 2024-11-15 false true Duane Landon CPA P01210498 4252142460 2024-11-15 X 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X X X https://compdemocracy.org/ X X 64494 X 63998 496 64494 379509 109161 47840 536510 -472016 712939 240923 X 582790 255421 0 0 154457 1782 737247 257203 24308 16280 712939 240923 X See Schedule O See Schedule O 402840 402840 Elizabeth Barry Chief Operating Officer 40.00 129600 0 0 Amanda Casari Board Member 1.00 0 0 0 Linette Shaw Board Member 1.00 0 0 0 Colin Megill President 1.00 0 0 0 Andrew Smith Chief of Staff 5.00 0 0 0 Chris Small Chief Research Scientist 40.00 130000 0 0 false false false false false false false false false 501 Commons 1200 12th Ave S Ste 1101 Seattle WA 98144 2066826704 false false false false false false false false false false false Chris Small Chief Research Scientist 40.00 130000 0 0 NONE true X 81675 650000 400000 1131675 180452 63998 244450 81675 830452 400000 63998 1376125 1376125 35 11 22 169 496 733 35 11 22 169 496 733 81710 11 830474 400169 64494 1376858 0.99950 0.99980 0.00000 0.00000 X Description of other expenses Part I line 16 Description AmountProfessional Development 571Advertising 306Postage 268Information Technology 22,294Travel 20,156Insurance 2,993License and Fees 1,252 Description of other assets Part II line 24 Category Beginning of Year End of YearPledges 150,000 0Prepaid Expenses 4,457 1,782 Description of total liabilities Part II line 26 Category Beginning of Year End of YearAccounts Payable 3,096 3,426Payroll Liabilities 21,212 12,854 Part III response or note to any other line in Part III MISSION - Our work brings data science to deliberative democracy.SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND DEVELOPMENT - The Computational Democracy Project designs, engineers, and maintains Polis, an open source, real-time software system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning. Polis facilitates large, productive online conversations to unlock breakthrough points of consensus on deadlocked political issues. Polis is a powerful platform for collective self-representation, enabling the construction of an interactive model of the public opinion landscape. CompDem hosts the home instance of Polis, providing free use of the tool to the world. Worldwide on www.pol.is, over 300,000 people have participated in deliberative conversations casting over 14 million votes on user-generated statements. We steward the AGPL v3 Polis codebase by maintaining stability, security, and deployability; reconciling forks from contributors (including multiple nation states); and coordinating the roadmap for feature development. In 2023, we added multiple usability features for Polis developers, added new Polis UI language translations, and improved the overall security of the platform by incorporating fixes from a penetration test. FACILITATION SERVICES - CompDem supports partners to use Polis ethically, rigorously, and creatively. CompDems pro bono work focuses on groups who are advancing democracy and pursuing self-determination. We provide support and services to governments, First Nations, civil society organizations, social movements, geographic communities, communities based on membership and/or identity, think tanks, independent media outlets, and academic researchers who are undertaking the building of future democractic systems. In 2023 we assisted a C20 Technology, Security, and Transparency working group (the C20 is the civil society arm of the G20 summit) run a Polis conversation on AI and Data Policy. The conversations aim was to find a consensus on important policy questions regarding AI and Data for Society, and fed directly into policy recommendations delivered to G20 delegates.EDUCATION, OUTREACH & NETWORKING - The Computational Democracy Project teaches people to apply data science towards problems of civic engagement and collective decision-making. CompDem provides ongoing education in the form of published How-To content and custom training. CompDem maintains an extensive and growing knowledge base for those implementing Polis, as well as an open data repository and open source Jupyter notebooks for academics and data scientists participating in the development of methods. CompDem supports a network of data scientists, civil servants, and ethicists to operate as a community of practice and convenes advisory boards of professionals in relevant fields and other stakeholders. CompDem interviews facilitators around the work, and we maintain a list of narratively written case studies on https://compdemocracy.org/case-studies/.CompDem undertakes outreach in the form of public speaking and writing. In 2023, Board President Colin Megill spoke at OpenAI, Stanford University, Northwestern University, Bard University, DeepMind, Demos, Nesta, and the British Royal Society.CompDem also researches and publishes peer reviewed literature in partnership with academics and researchers. The 2023 paper Opportunities and Risks of LLMS for Scalable Deliberation with Polis (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.11932) was co-written with authors from Anthropic. It covers using LLMs to more efficiently run Polis conversations, a new method with immense promise to empower the public toward collective meaning-and decision-making.