About civ.works
Rebuilding trust in digital civic engagement.
Civic Works is the vision of Golda Velez and George Polisner. Modern democracy faces profound challenges: polarization, disinformation, and declining trust in institutions. Digital spaces often amplify these issues through proprietary algorithms rather than resolve them. There is a critical need for public-interest platforms designed to promote civic trust, informed deliberation, and authentic engagement. While providing a secure social networking platform, the Civic Works platform will go beyond the conventional by providing a civic action distribution system, subscriber-customizable algorithms to select and prioritize your social feed, mechanisms to guard against the spread of propaganda, disinformation, and heavily-biased news, and participate more fully in democratic processes.
The civ.works team
Because there’s no “I” in team.
Executive Director
George combines more than 30 years of development and engineering experience at Oracle, HP, Dell, and the State of California, with an extensive background in ESG and organizing behavior.
Golda Velez
CTO & Board Member
Golda has worked for JPL, Oracle, and other major enterprises and startups to direct complex projects, programs, and teams. She is deeply involved in human rights efforts worldwide.
The civ.works platform is a project of the 501(c)3 non-profit Civic Works. We protect our subscribers in multiple ways. First, We are evaluating to creation of a Public Benefit Corporation and including subscriber and subscriber data privacy in the corporate charter. We are also planning a Perpetual Purpose Trust, protecting the non-profit and the Public Benefit Corporation from acquisition and subversion of mission by bad actors. Finally, we are now at work on a scalable, secure decentralized and federated technology platform similar to Mastodon and Bluesky. We recognize we are the product, not our subscribers and their data.
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civ.works is an ad-free civic social network. Your data-is never shared with marketers or shadowy political operatives.