Technology for inclusion. Participatory decision making at scale.
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INTRODUCTION
Participatory Intelligence
Low institutional trust and legitimacy isa major problem facing the world.
And Neith is the company working tochange this. We help institutions to deepen trustand legitimacy by providing digitalinfrastructure that enables meaningfulparticipation in decision making atscale. By combining AI technologies withreal-time consultation processes, wewant to reawaken confidence in ourability to solve problems together.
According to global surveys
Trust in institutions is collapsing, and the conditions for legitimate decision-making are deteriorating.
57%
of people report little or no trust in existing institutions
60%
feel excluded or unheard in decision making
4/10
PEOPLE
approve of hostile activism to drive change.
HOSTILE ACTIVISM INCLUDES
Attacking people online ·
Intentionally spreading disinformation ·
Threatening or committing violence ·
Damaging public or private property.
IMPACT
The current environment of low-trust and low legitimacy is a crisis.
IT CREATES SYSTEMIC CONSTRAINTS ON DECISION-MAKING CAPACITY. THIS LEADS TO:
TRUST | LEGITIMACY
Persistent Opposition
Decisions are contested, compliance collapses, expertise is dismissed: institutions face endless litigation, protests, boycotts, opting-out, media campaigns.
Coercive Enforcement
Enforcement must substitute for consent, and voluntary compliance is absent: implementation costs skyrocket due to penalties, incentives, workarounds, constant monitoring and enforcement.
Degraded Information Quality
Stakeholders share less information, filter more by withholding strategic information, information disclosures are partial and data is manipulated: this leads to increasing error rates, rising costs of verification and auditing.
In this environment, participation consumes time and resources, but produces neither insight nor buy-in.
THE UN PRIORITISES:
LEGITIMACY OF INSTITUTIONAL DECISION-MAKING
Because without trust and inclusion, progress will not hold.
The Sustainable Development Goals address public decision making and the need for people to have greater:
Centralised decision making won’t scale under conditions of mistrust. Legitimacy must be reconstructed through meaningful inclusion.
The solution is
enabling
participation.
Technology can help to restore trust by increasing people’s understanding of problems, allowing them to make inputs, synthesising diverse views and responses, and empowering institutions to listen.
Participatory technology is the next evolution for business, for government and for society.
TRANSFORMING HUMAN EXPERIENCES, IDEAS AND INSIGHTS INTO ACTIONABLE OUTCOMES.
THIS IS PARTICIPATORY INTELLIGENCE, THE FUNCTIONAL APPLICATION OF AI TO UNITE RATHER THAN DIVIDE.
This is the work of deciding the future together. This is Neith, a company that provides digital infrastructure for participatory decision making.
Restoring trust in
our shared world.
In the minds of many, trust in institutions has been irretrievably lost. But this cannot be the last word.
We see beyond the current limitations and are committed to working with institutions that care about inclusion and are committed to participatory decision making.