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iVoice launches community collaboration platforms across the UK

By: Get News

SHEFFIELD, UK - iVoice, a pioneering AI-powered platform for direct democracy, is set to launch community collaboration platforms this July with a powerful grassroots campaign involving community radio stations and student movements across the UK, and India.

Unveiled earlier this year at Terra Forum events at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and London Business School, iVoice captured attention as a visionary democracy & technology (DemTech) platform capable of bridging the gap between governments, institutions, and ordinary citizens.

The July 2025 public launch marks a significant milestone, with iVoice rolling out community collaboration across student unions, local leaders, and community radio networks. This community collaboration model ensures the platform reaches voices traditionally excluded from mainstream policy discourse — including youth, minority communities, and those in digitally underserved regions.

This community collaboration is designed to engage students, workers, artists, entrepreneurs, social activists, and everyday citizens, transforming passive public sentiment into active influence. Early pilot campaigns have already recorded public sentiment on climate change priorities, urban safety, education access and women’s rights, offering a snapshot of how voice-led participation can energise civic action.

At its core, iVoice is a simple but powerful idea: allow people to vote with their voice. Built on secure blockchain infrastructure and powered by AI voice recognition, the platform captures public sentiment on vital issues in a way that’s accessible, tamper-proof, and transparent. Votes are recorded immutably, ensuring accountability, auditability, and integrity — critical foundations for restoring trust in civic participation.

Speaking about the platform’s mission, Joydeep Mondal, Founder of iVoice, said: “We require direct democracy to reach the masses. There’s no way people can be kept away from realising their right to voice, right to live, and democratic rights in this 21st century. iVoice makes this happen — a responsible digital transformation built for inclusion and justice.”

The platform directly aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs), specifically Goal 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions) by strengthening civic systems, and Goal 17 (Partnerships for the Goals) by fostering community collaboration, and community-led participation in policies that matters to them.

iVoice offers a fresh, accessible alternative to outdated voting and polling systems by allowing users to simply record their opinion on topics ranging from local safety to human rights, environmental policy, or global conflict. AI technology then categorises this public sentiment as positive, negative, or neutral.

Joydeep Mondial added: “This non-partisan, non-binary, non-ideological framework removes the distortions of political bias or social conditioning, surfacing a truer reflection of collective public will. Beyond polling, iVoice acts as a living civic platform where people not only express opinions but actively influence the debates and policies shaping their futures.”

As war, inequality, and human rights violations dominate global headlines, iVoice positions itself as a crucial democracy & technology (DemTech) to amplify public sentiment and steer decision-making towards peace, dignity, and rights-based policies. By making public opinion instantly visible, it offers policymakers a new tool to stay attuned to the will of their citizens — a potentially transformative shift for both democratic and emerging economies.

Disha Paul, Co-Founder of iVoice, said: "Technology is an enabler of human problems and direct democracy is one of the greatest challenges of our time. With iVoice, we’re giving people a safe, credible, and transparent platform to participate in shaping their future."

More than just a voting tool, iVoice embodies a commitment to tech-for-good innovation. By blending secure blockchain infrastructure with inclusive AI and transparent result reporting, it builds public trust while combating misinformation and manipulation — a necessary evolution in the digital civic space.

Now open to the communities, iVoice is inviting students, policy makers, grassroots movements, and individual citizens to be part of this new movement for direct, inclusive democracy. Participation is intuitive: users simply visit the platform, speak their view, cast their vote, and contribute to shaping the policies of tomorrow.

Join the conversation, cast your vote, and help shape the decisions of tomorrow at: www.theivoice.com/campaigns

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Country: United Kingdom
Website: https://www.theivoice.com/

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