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Hi all, We’re excited to share a new monthly update on Frankly, a project out of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. While you may have heard from us before through occasional announcements and updates, we’ll now be reaching out more regularly with news, events, research, and opportunities connected to the…

Frankly, the video-based civic discourse platform from the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society’s Applied Social Media Lab (ASML), is at the center of a new initiative that has been awarded a grant aimed at exploring how AI can improve how we engage in dialogue and make decisions at scale. Read full announcement from…

We’re proud to announce that Frankly is now officially open source under the AGPL license — a major milestone in our mission to build public interest infrastructure for constructive dialog and collaborative decision-making. Read the full announcement from ASML and the press release from BKC.

Can technology scale up the deliberative practices that make discourse more constructive? BKC introduces a newly acquired, renamed online video-based discourse platform which will be utilized to facilitate constructive dialogue and collective decision-making. Harvard Law School’s Lawrence Lessig and ASML Product Manager Samantha Shireman present the platform, its aspirations, and what is next for its…