Updates
Recent news, releases, and notes from the Frankly team.
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ASML’s Frankly Awarded Inaugural “Moonshot” Seed Grant
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… Read more
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We Open-Sourced Frankly – Here’s What That Means for Collaborative Dialogue.
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. Read more
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Deliberations and Participatory Democracy
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… Read more