For example, there’s a statement that says, “Surge pricing is fine, but undercutting existing meters hurts the livelihood of the people who drive. So it can only go up and not go down.” That’s a unifying sentiment across two islands. After three weeks of non-violent communication, people literally see those clusters merging to the middle. Then we have like 10 high-consensus (85% or more) statements that we can then read as an agenda to Uber and the taxi association on the open, live-streamed multi-stakeholder meeting that says, “Okay, this sounds very reasonable. Would you like to commit to it?” Once they all commit to it, it then becomes law. Since 2015, we’ve had more than 20 such laws and regulations passed this way, and more than 100 collaborative meetings from citizen initiatives that also used Polis as a bridge-making algorithm.

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