A Collaborative Research Project
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Navigating Civic Tech for Public Deliberation in Unstable Contexts
This research project involves peacebuilding experts and facilitation practitioners piloting dialogic processes with deliberative technologies to identify best practices. The outcome of this research project will include the following:
1) A Handbook on Designing Tech-Assisted Deliberative Processes
2) A Set of 10 Case Studies of Tech-Assisted Deliberative Processes in Unstable, Polarized Contexts
3) A Knowledge Graph of 25 Deliberative Platforms and their design elements as correlated to process design and a set of strategic questions.
4) An AI assistant to help others navigate and design deliberative public processes and choose and use relevant technology platforms, drawing from an extensive digital knowledge graph of digital resources and a wiki database of articles.
PROBLEM STATEMENT:
Deliberative technology offers digital tools for supporting public discussion on policy issues, emphasizing citizen participation and collective intelligence. There are nearly 200 such platforms to support civic engagement on pressing policy challenges. Yet government and civil society uptake of these new platforms is low, especially for deliberative technologies.
The use of these platforms requires sociotechnical expertise including 1) designing and facilitating deliberative processes; and 2) choosing between different platforms for different elements of the process. Lack of awareness and understanding of the tools makes it difficult for organizations to choose the right tools and design deliberative processes.
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