A slide deck with a draft of ideas and concepts we are starting to explore in the AppCivist project

1. Image Source: AppCivist First Mockup http://appcivist-demo3.meteor.com/
In the context of
Participatory Budgeting

2. Source: http://egovau.blogspot.com/2010/11/participatory-budgeting-big-in-europe.html
The Participatory
Budgeting Story
Political process that lets
members of a community
propose and vote on how
certain budget funds should be
allocated
The Rise and Importance of
Participatory Budgeting

4. Proposal Making by the citizens
Both Online and in F2F Assemblies/Workshops
After Technical Validation, citizens Vote on Proposals
Winning Proposals become City Projects
City projects are then Executed
The Participatory
Budgeting Story

5. How does ICT support Participatory Budgeting Today?
The Participatory
Budgeting Story

6. Tools
• ICT tools for Participatory Budgeting are limited and scattered
• Information Overload in proposal making (e.g., redundancy) is
usually managed by a group of “technicians” who manually
organize proposals in a technical analysis phase (where more
transparency is needed)
• Voting via simple Web Surveys, SMS and F2F in specific places
(e.g., a bus tours the city in Lisbon). SMS is noted to be costly
for small municipalities
• Proponents use everything from Flyers to Social Media to
promote their proposals
The Participatory
Budgeting Story

7. AppCivist for Participatory Budgeting

8. PB Paris 2015 PB SF 2015 Public Health

9. AppCivist Bundle of Services

10. Campaigns
Stories &
Inspiration
PB Paris 2014
Dashboard
Proposals Deliberation
Winning
Proposals
Execution +
Configure Configure Configure Configure Configure

11. AppCivist SOC Architecture
Activists
Government
Deliberating: Assembly and Consensus-Making, so Activists
Citizens
Media
Activism
Ontology
Executing Activism Assembly/
AppCivist Configured
Social Activism App
Interactions
App. Development
Activism Process/
“Assembly”
Activism
Enabling
Service
Registry
Assembly
Composition
Engine
Refers to
Developer
Fig. 1. AppCivist Architecture.
dynamic task-allocation and management among participants.
• Developers

12. AppCivist
Assemblies
Citizens Apps
External Services/Applications
Proposal Voting
Deliberation
Versioning
…
AppCivist Service APIs
AppCivist Services Hub
Composition and
Configuration
Engine
Service
Providers
Registry
Hubs
Network
Engine
Social
Activism and
Participation
Ontology
AppCivist
Hub Ontology
AppCivist
Hub P2P
Network
External
Service
Providers
AppCivist
Provided
Services
Ontology
API
Registry API
AppCivist
Assemblies
Dashboard
AppCivist
Citizens
Assemblies
AppCivist
OpenData Frontend AppCivist: applications
Backend AppCivist: service middleware
(development + integration)

13. Thanks for listening. Questions?
The AppCivist Team

14. Extra Slides