Civic Interplay / Listening

Listening to an emergent field

Agentic listening to an emerging literature. The counts are a snapshot in time. Last snapshot: 13 September 2026, covering work published since January 2025.

  1. AI sovereignty

    330

    How AI sovereignty is being claimed and assessed.

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  2. AI governance

    16,983

    The broad field. Everything from model safety to procurement, most of it some distance from infrastructure.

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  3. Algorithmic governance

    2,922

    Rules and protocols relating to algorithms, not specifically AI ecosystems.

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  4. Sovereign AI

    1,615

    Industry framing. Tracks the term the Tracker charts the rise of.

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  5. Public AI

    497

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  6. Public participation + AI

    300

    Broader considerations of the intersection between public participation and AI.

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  7. Participatory AI

    200

    Participatory methods for AI enablement, agencies and governance. A key forum is the India AI Impact Summit, New Delhi, February 2026, the first global AI summit hosted in the Global South.

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  8. Civic AI

    50

    Multiple emergent definitions that consider AI governance practices as civic participation.

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  9. Civic technology + AI

    25

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  10. Data centres + community benefit

    20

    Works considering how data centres can deliberately be built with local community benefit in mind.

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  11. Agentic civics

    none

    Working definition

    Agentic Civics examines how agent-based workflows can be designed in ways that reflect the capabilities of civic intelligence and civic enquiry, whether in relation to established governance models or more relational practices of everyday citizenship. The practices include agentic-listening (recursively monitoring public policy and decision-making transparency within democratic contexts) and agentic-civics coordination (strategic co-ordination by public and private actors of AI-focused data ecosystems for public benefit).

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