From shiny pilots to lasting civic infrastructure

🙏 Louise Cato, Matt Stempeck, Lukas Salecker for their deep insights into what actually works in civic tech — and where even the best intentions can quietly fail. What stood out most for me 👇
🔹 We need different, long-term funding models — not project-to-project survival mode
🔹 We must design our work modularly, so complementary competencies can truly build on each other
🔹 Interoperability matters — technically and institutionally
🔹 We should enable the shared use of data from completed processes, instead of endlessly reinventing wheels
🔹 Open-source technology isn’t a nice-to-have — it’s foundational
🔹 And yes: it may be time to seriously explore a shared, open-source civic tech LLM 🌍🤖
⚠️ Pitfalls:
Fragmented pilots, short-term funding cycles, lack of interoperability, institutional risk aversion, data silos, and “innovation theater” that looks modern but never survives first contact with bureaucracy.
The summary of #deliberAIed below or contact Lukas for the long version.

❤️ Special gratitude to the volunteers — civic tech runs on invisible labor far more often than we admit. And on a very personal note: I’m incredibly proud that my daughter Mathild Meier was part of the team and helped make this happen.
The Political Tech Summit has shown me that #Europe can still lead the world as an example of Hashtag#DemocraticSuccess for the next decades. But for that to happen, our #Politics and #Technology need to go hand in hand.
🎙The Summit, despite just coming back for its second edition, has brought an impressive quality of speakers and attendants together to foster essential discussions around how to use Technology towards Political Progress and greater strength for the EU.
💡Amongst the highlights of these days, Thomas Jarzombek ’s intervention on the integration of AI in German governmental institutions. It was inspiring to finally see EU policy-makers breaking through the fear of Progress and embracing new technologies in their Politics.
🙌 Congratulations to Josef Lentsch, Benjamin Laepple & @Lukas Braml and the whole Hashtag#Partisan team on such a success! Huge thanks for curating the space, the framing, and the intellectual generosity that made this exchange possible.

📍 Looking ahead:
During the Munich Security Conference #MSC, we’ll host a dedicated panel for the Partisan / Political Tech Summit community at 👉 www.salon-luitpold.de. More details coming soon — stay tuned.
#PoliticalTech #partisan #CivicTech #DemocracyInnovation #OpenSource
#Interoperability #GovTech #PublicInfrastructure #eKairos
#CollectiveIntelligence #MSC #SalonLuitpold #Volunteers