Digital Democracy 2030
Building democratic infrastructure so more voices can be heard, organized, and reflected in public decision-making.
What DD2030 is
Digital Democracy 2030, or DD2030, is an open civic-technology community in Japan. We use AI and digital tools to support public listening, deliberation, transparency, and policy feedback.
DD2030 is not a single centrally controlled organization. It is a loose, participatory community where people contribute as developers, researchers, designers, organizers, policymakers, and citizens.
Political neutrality
DD2030 does not support or oppose any political party, candidate, or political organization. Its neutrality means both party neutrality and procedural neutrality: the same rules and conditions should apply to everyone.
DD2030's tools may be used by municipalities, parties, civic groups, researchers, companies, or other organizations under the same rules. Use of a tool does not imply DD2030 endorsement.
Projects
Broad Listening
Collecting diverse voices and making them easier to understand.
Broad listening is a practice for gathering many perspectives, organizing them, and making the structure of public opinion easier to inspect. DD2030 also supports a book project that explains the concept, cases, and implementation methods.
KouchouAI
Open-source analysis software for broad listening.
Kouchou AI builds on ideas from Talk to the City and adapts them for practical use by Japanese municipalities, political actors, and other organizations. It helps analyze large sets of comments while keeping human judgment central.
Idobata
A platform for large-scale deliberation and policy feedback.
Inspired by Taiwan's vTaiwan and JOIN platforms, Idobata supports online deliberation by helping participants express views, identify important issues, discuss possible responses, and move from public input toward better decisions.
Polimoney
Political finance transparency through open data and visualization.
Inspired in part by Sweden's transparent political-finance practices, Polimoney makes political finance information easier to see and discuss. The goal is to reduce opacity around political money and make public accounting more understandable.
Project Coreloop
From listening to agreement, policy, execution, and feedback.
Project Coreloop explores how public input can move beyond collection into consensus-building, policy design, implementation, and visible social improvement.
Why this matters internationally
DD2030 is part of a wider global conversation about broad listening, plurality, civic technology, and AI-assisted democratic processes. The work is experimental and practical: tools are open source, lessons are shared publicly, and many activities are documented week by week.
Get involved
If you are interested in pilots, research, engineering, design, documentation, translation, or community operations, start from the join page or explore the public GitHub repositories.