The document discusses how digital tools can provide opportunities to update, communicate, inform, engage, and watch as part of the scrutiny role of local councils. It addresses considerations around content like providing digestible information tailored to different audiences. Other topics covered include using hashtags and social media to reach audiences, listening to citizens, and providing outcomes. The document emphasizes that digital is an opportunity, not a solution, and councils should choose tools that fit their connectivity, skills, time, and approaches.
TRB Workshop: Building Consensus!
Contemporary Tools & Techniques for Engaging the Public
Sponsored by:
Committee on Public Involvement in Transportation (ADA60)
This document discusses deliberation technologies and their current state, limitations, and opportunities for future research. It describes the state of online deliberation platforms, including their limitations in structuring discussions, avoiding echo chambers and polarization. It introduces argumentation-based deliberation systems and contested collective intelligence, which make the logical structure of discussions and disagreements more explicit. Examples of existing deliberation technologies are provided, along with their advantages over traditional discussion formats. Current limitations are outlined as well as opportunities for future research, such as improving interfaces, scaling technologies, and interoperability.
Democratic Reflection and other contested collective intelligence tools aim to harness technology to enable people to build consensus even when they disagree. These tools use techniques like crowdsourcing and natural language processing to analyze online conversations, identify points of agreement, and generate visualizations to help people reflect on different perspectives. Trials of these tools showed they can improve critical thinking, challenge assumptions, and potentially bridge political and social divides. The tools are being used to facilitate collaboration and evidence-based discussions among groups addressing complex issues like public policy, education, and building peace in places affected by conflict.
Discourse Centric Collective Intelligence for the Common GoodAnna De Liddo
Slides of my invited talk given at the Computational Decision Making and Data Science Workshop in Belgrade, Serbia in June2018 http://cdmdsw2018.fon.bg.ac.rs/
Public humanities: from crowdsourcing to community-sourcingPratt_Symposium
This document discusses definitions and models of crowdsourcing and academic crowdsourcing projects. It defines crowdsourcing as leveraging public participation or contributions to projects. Academic crowdsourcing projects range from open recruitment with generic microtasks to focused recruitment of experts. Successful projects invite engagement from interested community members rather than relying on large anonymous groups. These projects can foster self-organizing communities that collaborate to produce quality outputs through discussion and peer review. Crowdsourcing results in communities forming around topics of interest where participants gain skills and domain knowledge.
The document proposes a web platform called Swarm Debate to facilitate collaborative online debates on complex issues using swarm intelligence and graph theory. The platform aims to simplify, classify, evaluate contributions and foster creativity. It would represent debates as a network of user-generated content and use algorithms to isolate clusters of ideas and provide visualization tools. Key questions discussed include whether to use directed/unlabeled graphs and how to incorporate expert advice and fact-checking to address limitations of crowd-sourcing. The proposed next steps are to implement a basic version and iteratively expand functionality based on experimentation.
The Viewpoint Project: Engaging a Disenfranchised Community with Street Tech...mysociety
Nick presented a session at The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2015) on 25 March 2015 in London.
To see more coverage of TICTeC2015, visit: http://lanyrd.com/2015/tictec/
The document discusses how digital tools can provide opportunities to update, communicate, inform, engage, and watch as part of the scrutiny role of local councils. It addresses considerations around content like providing digestible information tailored to different audiences. Other topics covered include using hashtags and social media to reach audiences, listening to citizens, and providing outcomes. The document emphasizes that digital is an opportunity, not a solution, and councils should choose tools that fit their connectivity, skills, time, and approaches.
TRB Workshop: Building Consensus!
Contemporary Tools & Techniques for Engaging the Public
Sponsored by:
Committee on Public Involvement in Transportation (ADA60)
This document discusses deliberation technologies and their current state, limitations, and opportunities for future research. It describes the state of online deliberation platforms, including their limitations in structuring discussions, avoiding echo chambers and polarization. It introduces argumentation-based deliberation systems and contested collective intelligence, which make the logical structure of discussions and disagreements more explicit. Examples of existing deliberation technologies are provided, along with their advantages over traditional discussion formats. Current limitations are outlined as well as opportunities for future research, such as improving interfaces, scaling technologies, and interoperability.
Democratic Reflection and other contested collective intelligence tools aim to harness technology to enable people to build consensus even when they disagree. These tools use techniques like crowdsourcing and natural language processing to analyze online conversations, identify points of agreement, and generate visualizations to help people reflect on different perspectives. Trials of these tools showed they can improve critical thinking, challenge assumptions, and potentially bridge political and social divides. The tools are being used to facilitate collaboration and evidence-based discussions among groups addressing complex issues like public policy, education, and building peace in places affected by conflict.
Discourse Centric Collective Intelligence for the Common GoodAnna De Liddo
Slides of my invited talk given at the Computational Decision Making and Data Science Workshop in Belgrade, Serbia in June2018 http://cdmdsw2018.fon.bg.ac.rs/
Public humanities: from crowdsourcing to community-sourcingPratt_Symposium
This document discusses definitions and models of crowdsourcing and academic crowdsourcing projects. It defines crowdsourcing as leveraging public participation or contributions to projects. Academic crowdsourcing projects range from open recruitment with generic microtasks to focused recruitment of experts. Successful projects invite engagement from interested community members rather than relying on large anonymous groups. These projects can foster self-organizing communities that collaborate to produce quality outputs through discussion and peer review. Crowdsourcing results in communities forming around topics of interest where participants gain skills and domain knowledge.
The document proposes a web platform called Swarm Debate to facilitate collaborative online debates on complex issues using swarm intelligence and graph theory. The platform aims to simplify, classify, evaluate contributions and foster creativity. It would represent debates as a network of user-generated content and use algorithms to isolate clusters of ideas and provide visualization tools. Key questions discussed include whether to use directed/unlabeled graphs and how to incorporate expert advice and fact-checking to address limitations of crowd-sourcing. The proposed next steps are to implement a basic version and iteratively expand functionality based on experimentation.
The Viewpoint Project: Engaging a Disenfranchised Community with Street Tech...mysociety
Nick presented a session at The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2015) on 25 March 2015 in London.
To see more coverage of TICTeC2015, visit: http://lanyrd.com/2015/tictec/
1) CMHC identified designing a Canada Housing Benefit as requiring an innovative human-centered approach and convened multiple stakeholders through a Solutions Lab.
2) While a housing benefit aims to subsidize unaffordable housing, convening stakeholders around short and long-term goals can have desirable systemic outcomes like collaboration.
3) By addressing immediate problems and long-term visions simultaneously, moments of urgency can be leveraged to seed systemic change, build shared understanding over time, and strengthen relationships between organizations.
This document summarizes a presentation on crowdsourcing public participation. It introduces crowdsourcing and its potential benefits over traditional public meetings. A case study is described where crowdsourcing was used to generate ideas for improving an area near a new train station in Somerville, MA. Crowdsourced participation generated more unique ideas from more diverse participants than traditional meetings. Interview data found crowdsourcing opened participation to those who do not typically engage. The document concludes with contact information for pursuing further discussion.
The document discusses the challenges of user contribution to digital libraries and whether niche communities can be combined into larger networks. It notes that while social tools allow for loosely structured group action without direction, individual contribution depends on sharing useful information. If most people do not contribute, the value of the information shared is reduced. It also questions what motivates contribution and attention when seeking to aggregate niche communities into a larger network through services like Intute or a university library.
using tools to engage the public | Ken SnyderOpenPlans
The document discusses tools and methods for engaging the public in innovative decision-making to support sustainable communities. It describes challenges such as some members of the public being unaware, busy, blocked, excluded, apathetic, doubtful or opposed. Solutions include sharing information and being transparent, using multiple communication channels, asset mapping, understanding tradeoffs, brainstorming solutions, and celebrating successes. The PlaceMatters Decision Lab provides cost-effective and politically viable solutions grounded in democracy and sustainability principles using tools like surveys, mapping, scenario analysis and civic engagement activities to gather public input.
Place Based Poverty Intersections and Approaches - Scott Taterpesapan
This document discusses place-based poverty and promising approaches to address it. It examines how poverty is linked to place and neighborhoods, and how problems become bundled together. Three promising approaches are highlighted: (1) Turning the Tide on Poverty, which explores causes of poverty and develops community-based action plans; (2) Neighborhood identity projects, which focus on local initiatives to build neighborhood pride and trust; and (3) Neighborhood microenterprise programs that support small local businesses. These approaches aim to address multiple problems by building social ties, reducing divides, and linking communities to resources. Examples of early outcomes and impacts of these projects are also provided.
This is a presentation to the Institute of Government about a new research project at the LSE in the Department of Media and Communications around the idea that government is increasingly subject to media. Internally and externally policy-making - as well as politics - and the work of the executive is conditioned by media influence. From email to social media to marketing to journalism - digital age media is having an impact on the way we are governed. Does it matter? What difference does it make?
This document provides information about activities and facilities available at a family-run venue established in 1989. The venue started as a clay shooting ground and has expanded over the years to include other activities like air rifles, archery, off-roading, dune buggies and quad bikes. It offers packages for corporate events, private groups and families. The venue prides itself on customer safety, enjoyment and repeat business. It is situated in the North Bedfordshire countryside near major roads and towns.
This presentation consists of the storyboard of our CSCW2012 video submission. In the video's storiboard we demonstrate the practical application of research on human and machine annotation of online documents to support reflective reading and collective sensemaking of online documents. We present an innovative research prototype which integrate a discourse analysis software (XIP) with our Cohere Web Annotation and Knowledge-Mapping tool. We visualize an interactive scenario of use of the two integrated technologies in a unique user experience. This dynamic scenario will give an inspiring vision of future CSCW systems, which machine and human intelligence are combined to enhance reasoning power.
This document discusses automating power distribution systems in India. It notes that distribution systems currently experience high losses and proposes automation as a solution to improve efficiencies. The document outlines the need for automation to reduce losses and improve reliability. It describes the various components of automation schemes including data collection equipment, RTUs, communication units, and SCADA systems. The document also discusses types of automation for substations, feeders, and consumers. It notes early automation projects in India and outlines the scope for future work and hurdles to implementing full distribution automation.
This document provides information about activities and facilities available at a family-run venue established in 1989. The venue started as a clay shooting ground and has expanded over the years to include other activities like air rifles, archery, off-roading, dune buggies and quad bikes. It offers packages for corporate events, private groups and families. The venue prides itself on customer safety, enjoyment and satisfaction. It is situated in the North Bedfordshire countryside near major roads and towns.
Visualizing Deliberation to Enable Transparent Decision Making in Participa...Anna De Liddo
The document summarizes a presentation on visualizing deliberation in participatory urban planning through knowledge mapping and argument mapping. It discusses using technologies like Compendium, FM, and CoPe_it to capture deliberation across different contexts and enable more transparent decision making. Evaluation of case studies found that the approach helped structure deliberation and engage stakeholders, but challenges remain around discretion in classification and managing information complexity.
Role of ng os in promoting the right to healthAmani Massoud
The document discusses the role of NGOs in promoting the right to health. It outlines the work of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) in using research, advocacy, and litigation to defend rights like health, privacy, and bodily integrity. It then explains common NGO strategies for promoting human rights, such as empowering communities, producing information, advocacy, campaigning, lobbying, and human rights education. Specific examples of EIPR's strategic health litigation are also provided.
DCLA meet CIDA: Collective Intelligence Deliberation Analytics Simon Buckingham Shum
DCLA14: 2nd International Workshop on Discourse-Centric Learning Analyticsat LAK14: http://dcla14.wordpress.com
Abstract: This discussion paper builds a bridge between Discourse-Centric Learning Analytics (DCLA), whose focus tends to be on student discourse in formal educational contexts, and research and practice in Collective Intelligence Deliberation Analytics (CIDA), which seeks to scaffold quality deliberation in teams/collectives devising solutions to complex problems. CIDA research aims to equip networked communities with deliberation platforms capable of hosting large scale, reflective conversations, and actively feeding back to participants and moderators the ‘vital signs’ of the community and the state of its deliberations. CIDA tends to focus not on formal educational communities, although many would consider themselves learning communities in the broader sense, as they recognize the need to pool collective intelligence in order to understand, and co-evolve solutions to, complex dilemmas. We propose that the context and rationale behind CIDA efforts, and emerging CIDA implementations, contribute a research and technology stream to the DCLA community. The argument is twofold: (i) The context of CIDA work connects with the growing recognition in educational thinking that students from school age upwards should be given the opportunities to engage in authentic learning challenges, wrestling with problems and engaging in practices increasingly close to the complexity they will confront when they graduate. (ii) In the contexts of both DCLA and CIDA, different kinds of users need feedback on the state of the debate, and the quality of the conversation: the students and educators served by DCLA are mirrored by the citizens and facilitators served by CIDA. In principle, therefore, a fruitful dialogue could unfold between DCLA/CIDA researchers and practitioners, in order to better understand common and distinctive requirements.
Slides from the Special Interest Group (SIG) session "Design for Online Deliberative Processes and Technologies: Towards a Multidisciplinary Research Agenda" at the 33rd ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'15), Seoul, April 22, 2015
Collective Intelligence and Online Deliberation Platforms for Citizen Engagem...Anna De Liddo
This is the presentation of the keynote I gave to the The "Software Codes of Democracy: Web Platforms for New Politics Workshop, which was held in Milan, Italy 13-15 Sept 2013 http://codicidellademocrazia.partecipate.it/
Abstract
Social media are increasingly used to support online debate and facilitate citizens’ engagement in policy and decision-making. Nevertheless the online dialogue spaces we see on the Web today typically provide flat listings of comments, or threads that can be viewed by ‘subject’ line. These are fundamentally chronological views which offer no insight into the logical structure of the ideas, such as the coherence or evidential basis of an argument. This hampers both quality of citizens’ participation and effective assessment of the state of the debate.
Within the landscape of existing community debate and ideation tools, the talk will introduce a new class of emerging online deliberation platforms – coming from research on Hypermedia, Collective Intelligence and Argumentation – that enable more structured, engaging and transparent online deliberation processes.
The talk will focus on the description of some of these technologies and summarise research studies in which they have been used to effectively support online deliberation in the Education, Healthcare and Public sector.
The talk will conclude proposing reflections and future research on collective intelligence and online deliberation platforms to socially innovate and to re-engage citizens with the democratic process.
This document discusses online civic engagement and deliberation platforms. It provides examples of online platforms used by various cities and counties for public participation in areas like planning, budgeting, and policymaking. It also discusses challenges of online deliberation like moderating discussions and ensuring diverse participation. Frameworks for evaluating public participation processes and platforms using criteria like information sharing, consultation, collaboration and decision-making power are presented.
What do we mean by dialogue? Certainly it is more than conscious speaking and attentive listening in a group. Indeed, when participating in a real dialogue we recognize and understand the depth and value of the experience, but may find it impossible to call it up on demand. We know dialogue is much more than method, and does not lend itself to methodological practices. But perhaps it can play a more meaningful role in design practice, in particular for design situations where stakeholders must have a voice in and play an active role in the deployment of designed solutions.
This document summarizes a presentation by Matt Leighninger on building civic infrastructure. It discusses how citizens have changed and need to be treated as adults through providing them information, opportunities to share their stories and perspectives, choices, legitimacy, and ways to take action. It outlines key components of civic infrastructure like democratic spaces in neighborhoods, schools, online, and for youth, as well as buildings to house citizen engagement, leadership, skills training, information dissemination, and democratic decision-making processes. The presentation argues that stronger civic infrastructure requires involvement from many sectors of the community.
1) CMHC identified designing a Canada Housing Benefit as requiring an innovative human-centered approach and convened multiple stakeholders through a Solutions Lab.
2) While a housing benefit aims to subsidize unaffordable housing, convening stakeholders around short and long-term goals can have desirable systemic outcomes like collaboration.
3) By addressing immediate problems and long-term visions simultaneously, moments of urgency can be leveraged to seed systemic change, build shared understanding over time, and strengthen relationships between organizations.
This document summarizes a presentation on crowdsourcing public participation. It introduces crowdsourcing and its potential benefits over traditional public meetings. A case study is described where crowdsourcing was used to generate ideas for improving an area near a new train station in Somerville, MA. Crowdsourced participation generated more unique ideas from more diverse participants than traditional meetings. Interview data found crowdsourcing opened participation to those who do not typically engage. The document concludes with contact information for pursuing further discussion.
The document discusses the challenges of user contribution to digital libraries and whether niche communities can be combined into larger networks. It notes that while social tools allow for loosely structured group action without direction, individual contribution depends on sharing useful information. If most people do not contribute, the value of the information shared is reduced. It also questions what motivates contribution and attention when seeking to aggregate niche communities into a larger network through services like Intute or a university library.
using tools to engage the public | Ken SnyderOpenPlans
The document discusses tools and methods for engaging the public in innovative decision-making to support sustainable communities. It describes challenges such as some members of the public being unaware, busy, blocked, excluded, apathetic, doubtful or opposed. Solutions include sharing information and being transparent, using multiple communication channels, asset mapping, understanding tradeoffs, brainstorming solutions, and celebrating successes. The PlaceMatters Decision Lab provides cost-effective and politically viable solutions grounded in democracy and sustainability principles using tools like surveys, mapping, scenario analysis and civic engagement activities to gather public input.
Place Based Poverty Intersections and Approaches - Scott Taterpesapan
This document discusses place-based poverty and promising approaches to address it. It examines how poverty is linked to place and neighborhoods, and how problems become bundled together. Three promising approaches are highlighted: (1) Turning the Tide on Poverty, which explores causes of poverty and develops community-based action plans; (2) Neighborhood identity projects, which focus on local initiatives to build neighborhood pride and trust; and (3) Neighborhood microenterprise programs that support small local businesses. These approaches aim to address multiple problems by building social ties, reducing divides, and linking communities to resources. Examples of early outcomes and impacts of these projects are also provided.
This is a presentation to the Institute of Government about a new research project at the LSE in the Department of Media and Communications around the idea that government is increasingly subject to media. Internally and externally policy-making - as well as politics - and the work of the executive is conditioned by media influence. From email to social media to marketing to journalism - digital age media is having an impact on the way we are governed. Does it matter? What difference does it make?
This document provides information about activities and facilities available at a family-run venue established in 1989. The venue started as a clay shooting ground and has expanded over the years to include other activities like air rifles, archery, off-roading, dune buggies and quad bikes. It offers packages for corporate events, private groups and families. The venue prides itself on customer safety, enjoyment and repeat business. It is situated in the North Bedfordshire countryside near major roads and towns.
This presentation consists of the storyboard of our CSCW2012 video submission. In the video's storiboard we demonstrate the practical application of research on human and machine annotation of online documents to support reflective reading and collective sensemaking of online documents. We present an innovative research prototype which integrate a discourse analysis software (XIP) with our Cohere Web Annotation and Knowledge-Mapping tool. We visualize an interactive scenario of use of the two integrated technologies in a unique user experience. This dynamic scenario will give an inspiring vision of future CSCW systems, which machine and human intelligence are combined to enhance reasoning power.
This document discusses automating power distribution systems in India. It notes that distribution systems currently experience high losses and proposes automation as a solution to improve efficiencies. The document outlines the need for automation to reduce losses and improve reliability. It describes the various components of automation schemes including data collection equipment, RTUs, communication units, and SCADA systems. The document also discusses types of automation for substations, feeders, and consumers. It notes early automation projects in India and outlines the scope for future work and hurdles to implementing full distribution automation.
This document provides information about activities and facilities available at a family-run venue established in 1989. The venue started as a clay shooting ground and has expanded over the years to include other activities like air rifles, archery, off-roading, dune buggies and quad bikes. It offers packages for corporate events, private groups and families. The venue prides itself on customer safety, enjoyment and satisfaction. It is situated in the North Bedfordshire countryside near major roads and towns.
Visualizing Deliberation to Enable Transparent Decision Making in Participa...Anna De Liddo
The document summarizes a presentation on visualizing deliberation in participatory urban planning through knowledge mapping and argument mapping. It discusses using technologies like Compendium, FM, and CoPe_it to capture deliberation across different contexts and enable more transparent decision making. Evaluation of case studies found that the approach helped structure deliberation and engage stakeholders, but challenges remain around discretion in classification and managing information complexity.
Role of ng os in promoting the right to healthAmani Massoud
The document discusses the role of NGOs in promoting the right to health. It outlines the work of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) in using research, advocacy, and litigation to defend rights like health, privacy, and bodily integrity. It then explains common NGO strategies for promoting human rights, such as empowering communities, producing information, advocacy, campaigning, lobbying, and human rights education. Specific examples of EIPR's strategic health litigation are also provided.
DCLA meet CIDA: Collective Intelligence Deliberation Analytics Simon Buckingham Shum
DCLA14: 2nd International Workshop on Discourse-Centric Learning Analyticsat LAK14: http://dcla14.wordpress.com
Abstract: This discussion paper builds a bridge between Discourse-Centric Learning Analytics (DCLA), whose focus tends to be on student discourse in formal educational contexts, and research and practice in Collective Intelligence Deliberation Analytics (CIDA), which seeks to scaffold quality deliberation in teams/collectives devising solutions to complex problems. CIDA research aims to equip networked communities with deliberation platforms capable of hosting large scale, reflective conversations, and actively feeding back to participants and moderators the ‘vital signs’ of the community and the state of its deliberations. CIDA tends to focus not on formal educational communities, although many would consider themselves learning communities in the broader sense, as they recognize the need to pool collective intelligence in order to understand, and co-evolve solutions to, complex dilemmas. We propose that the context and rationale behind CIDA efforts, and emerging CIDA implementations, contribute a research and technology stream to the DCLA community. The argument is twofold: (i) The context of CIDA work connects with the growing recognition in educational thinking that students from school age upwards should be given the opportunities to engage in authentic learning challenges, wrestling with problems and engaging in practices increasingly close to the complexity they will confront when they graduate. (ii) In the contexts of both DCLA and CIDA, different kinds of users need feedback on the state of the debate, and the quality of the conversation: the students and educators served by DCLA are mirrored by the citizens and facilitators served by CIDA. In principle, therefore, a fruitful dialogue could unfold between DCLA/CIDA researchers and practitioners, in order to better understand common and distinctive requirements.
Slides from the Special Interest Group (SIG) session "Design for Online Deliberative Processes and Technologies: Towards a Multidisciplinary Research Agenda" at the 33rd ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'15), Seoul, April 22, 2015
Collective Intelligence and Online Deliberation Platforms for Citizen Engagem...Anna De Liddo
This is the presentation of the keynote I gave to the The "Software Codes of Democracy: Web Platforms for New Politics Workshop, which was held in Milan, Italy 13-15 Sept 2013 http://codicidellademocrazia.partecipate.it/
Abstract
Social media are increasingly used to support online debate and facilitate citizens’ engagement in policy and decision-making. Nevertheless the online dialogue spaces we see on the Web today typically provide flat listings of comments, or threads that can be viewed by ‘subject’ line. These are fundamentally chronological views which offer no insight into the logical structure of the ideas, such as the coherence or evidential basis of an argument. This hampers both quality of citizens’ participation and effective assessment of the state of the debate.
Within the landscape of existing community debate and ideation tools, the talk will introduce a new class of emerging online deliberation platforms – coming from research on Hypermedia, Collective Intelligence and Argumentation – that enable more structured, engaging and transparent online deliberation processes.
The talk will focus on the description of some of these technologies and summarise research studies in which they have been used to effectively support online deliberation in the Education, Healthcare and Public sector.
The talk will conclude proposing reflections and future research on collective intelligence and online deliberation platforms to socially innovate and to re-engage citizens with the democratic process.
This document discusses online civic engagement and deliberation platforms. It provides examples of online platforms used by various cities and counties for public participation in areas like planning, budgeting, and policymaking. It also discusses challenges of online deliberation like moderating discussions and ensuring diverse participation. Frameworks for evaluating public participation processes and platforms using criteria like information sharing, consultation, collaboration and decision-making power are presented.
What do we mean by dialogue? Certainly it is more than conscious speaking and attentive listening in a group. Indeed, when participating in a real dialogue we recognize and understand the depth and value of the experience, but may find it impossible to call it up on demand. We know dialogue is much more than method, and does not lend itself to methodological practices. But perhaps it can play a more meaningful role in design practice, in particular for design situations where stakeholders must have a voice in and play an active role in the deployment of designed solutions.
This document summarizes a presentation by Matt Leighninger on building civic infrastructure. It discusses how citizens have changed and need to be treated as adults through providing them information, opportunities to share their stories and perspectives, choices, legitimacy, and ways to take action. It outlines key components of civic infrastructure like democratic spaces in neighborhoods, schools, online, and for youth, as well as buildings to house citizen engagement, leadership, skills training, information dissemination, and democratic decision-making processes. The presentation argues that stronger civic infrastructure requires involvement from many sectors of the community.
The Evidence Hub: Harnessing the Collective Intelligence of Communities to Bu...Anna De Liddo
The Evidence Hub is a tool that harnesses collective intelligence to build evidence-based knowledge. It allows communities to gather and debate evidence for ideas and solutions. Users can easily add evidence, counter-evidence, and have conversations to share knowledge. Visual analytics show social dynamics like key players and agreements/disagreements. Future research focuses on defining participation roles and processes, and developing reporting, discourse analytics, and geo-deliberation analytics.
The document discusses various approaches to measuring the value and impact of public engagement activities. It presents examples of evidence that could demonstrate engagement's influence, such as changes in policy, practice or communities. Methods are described, like outcome mapping, case studies and social network analysis, that can evaluate engagement's role in the policy process. The importance of learning during and after projects is emphasized.
Leading edge of democracy - IAP2 Australasia Leadership ForumMatt Leighninger
The document discusses how community engagement and democracy are evolving. Citizens now have less time but are more educated and skeptical of authority. New approaches to community engagement include proactively recruiting a diverse group of participants, using small group discussions, multiple levels of engagement both online and offline, and maintaining engagement over time through permanent democratic institutions centered on citizen needs. Examples provided show how places like Portsmouth, NH and Kuna, ID have successfully engaged hundreds of residents in decision making through ongoing, structured processes.
Social Networking, Online Communities and Clinical ResearchColleen Young
Social media and online communities can be leveraged at various stages of clinical research. During the research question stage, user-generated content and discussions with online community managers can provide insights. Collaborative writing tools and video conferences can aid study design. Social media platforms can help with recruitment by creating presences, sharing videos, and partnering with relevant organizations. Crowdsourcing data analysis and member checking can assist the data analysis stage. Disseminating findings on social media and with online communities supports end of grant knowledge translation. Ongoing learning, connecting, collaborating, experimenting and sharing information allows for knowledge application.
Honours lecture about leadership, crowdsourcing and social mediaFrank Willems
Frank Willems gave a lecture about crowdsourcing and social media. He is a professor at Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen and innovator in directing and crowdsourcing. The agenda included discussing change management and leadership, social networks, crowdsourcing, social media as a trigger for change, and the Hanze Social Media Lab project. The lecture covered concepts like social capital, connecting social capital, crowdsourcing, tribes, co-creation and examples like LEGO design crowdsourcing, fishermen collecting data, restaurant reviews, and bird counting communities.
Today research visibility is very important in an otherwise crowded digital environment. Here the concept of visibility generated and visibility earned is explained.
Slides on why public engagement is being done, what kinds of engagement are happening, and how we can do it better - by building stronger civic infrastructure at the local level.
Amina is a community leader and activist who is concerned about receiving consent when identifying and categorizing individuals as members of the LGBTQ community. She aims to compile biographies of important LGBTQ figures but faces challenges with Wikipedia's stringent citation rules and a lack of local high-profile sources. She is interested in tools that can help identify resources and support diversity efforts like tracking progress in underrepresented groups' content growth. Other participants expressed a need for easy-to-use tools to find relevant local diversity statistics and content recommendations to address knowledge gaps. Developers face challenges in indexing data by categories like location, language and field to support initiatives seeking to analyze diversity metrics.
The Collaboration Project: Building an Open, Participatory and Collaborative ...Dan Munz
The document discusses how government can build a more open, participatory and collaborative model using new technologies. It argues that Web 2.0 allows for more interactive engagement between government and citizens. This can help address challenges of outdated bureaucracies by pulling citizens into the process. Examples provided include programs run by TSA, DHS and the White House that engage the public. The document advocates defining problems where new perspectives could help, identifying relevant communities, and establishing feedback loops to create problem-solving partnerships.
This document introduces a presentation on approaches to dialogue, deliberation, and visualization to promote shared understanding across levels, sectors, languages, and mindsets regarding sustainable futures. Some key points:
1. The presentation will discuss the "Digital Peters" project and CoLaboratory approaches to dialogue design.
2. It will provide examples of these dialogue and deliberation approaches for building capacity, orientation, and actions toward sustainable development.
3. The approaches aim to facilitate shared understanding across differences to support cooperation and decision-making.
This document discusses designing online community-based democratic deliberation. It addresses key issues like having a critical mass of information and the potential of deliberation. It examines how to develop the theoretical basis and technical tools to build effective online deliberation that can work in information-rich environments. The document proposes utilizing "Web 2" tools and techniques to democratically structure online deliberation and plots how the process could work. It emphasizes defining the goals of the deliberation and using quantifiable "deliberative tools" to achieve effective deliberation.
Sciencewise is a UK organization funded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills that helps the government engage the public on science and technology policy issues. The webinar summarized research from Sciencewise on best practices for public engagement, including when to engage the public in the policy process, how new digital technologies can support engagement, which publics to engage, and overcoming barriers to engagement. The webinar provided examples from past Sciencewise projects and highlighted key lessons about conceptualizing the public and ensuring inclusion of different perspectives.
Networked nonprofits are using social media to engage stakeholders, continuously learn and improve programs, and amplify their social impact. They share control over branding and accept negative feedback in order to build trust through transparency. To scale social media efforts, organizations need strategies, policies, tools and training to integrate social media into their work while managing risks like information overload or privacy issues. Learning from mistakes is important, as is collaborating with outside partners and measuring results.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
Infrastructure Challenges in Scaling RAG with Custom AI modelsZilliz
Building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems with open-source and custom AI models is a complex task. This talk explores the challenges in productionizing RAG systems, including retrieval performance, response synthesis, and evaluation. We’ll discuss how to leverage open-source models like text embeddings, language models, and custom fine-tuned models to enhance RAG performance. Additionally, we’ll cover how BentoML can help orchestrate and scale these AI components efficiently, ensuring seamless deployment and management of RAG systems in the cloud.
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing Days
Arguingontheweb2.0deliddo&al
1. Anna De Liddo1, Simon Buckingham Shum1, Mark Klein2
1Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
2University of Zurich and MIT CCI
Catalyst Project <http://catalyst-fp7.eu/>
2.
3. Poor Debate: No tools to identify were
ideas contrast, where people disagree
and why... popularity vs critical thinking
4. These tools are increasingly used to support online debate and facilitate citizens’
engagement in policy and decision-making. These are fundamentally chronological views
which offer:
no insight into the logical structure of the ideas, such as the coherence or
evidential basis of an argument.
No support for idea refinement and improvement
LINK to PETITION:
http://www.change.org/en-
GB/petitions/stand-against-russia-s-
brutal-crackdown-on-gay-rights-urge-
winter-olympics-2014-sponsors-to-
condemn-anti-gay-laws
5. No ways to assess the quality of any given idea
LINK to QUORA:
http://www.quora.com/Physics/Do-
wormholes-always-have-black-holes-at-
the-beginning#answers
6. Poor Debate: No tools to identify were ideas
contrast, where people disagree and why
Poor idea evaluation: No mechanisms to identify,
contribute and discuss the evidence for an idea
Poor Summarization and Visualization
Shallow contributions and Cognitive clutters
Platform Island & Balkanization
This hampers both:
quality of users’ participation and
The quality of proposed ideas
effective assessment of the state of the debate.
7. • Poor Commitment to Action
• Poor Summarization
• PoorVisualization
Very High
• Lack of Participation
• Poor Idea Evaluation
• ShallowContribution
High
• CognitiveClutters
• Lack of Innovation
Moderate
• Platform Island and Balkanization
• Non-representative decisions
Minor
8. That make the structure and status of a dialogue or debate
visible
Coming from research on Argumentation and CSAV, these
tools make visually explicit users’ lines of reasoning and
(dis)agreements.
Deliberatorium
Debategraph
Cohere
CoPe_it!
Problem&Proposals
YourView
The Evidence Hub
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15. • referred to as “deliberative aggregators” (van Gelder 2012b)
• produce a collective viewpoint or judgment on complex societal
issues by crowdsourcing discourse
• inherent purpose to support large communities to tackle complex
issues of public concern
16.
17.
18.
19. Collective
Intelligence
Online
Deliberation
Human Dynamics of Engagements
Analytics, &
Visualization
Crowdsourcing
ideas, arguments
and facts
Structured Discourse and
Argumentation
Democratic
entitlements
New class of Online
Deliberation tools
Citizen Voice
Social
Innovation
Computational
Services &
Dialogic Agents
20. Model of Collective Intelligence (CI):
from sensing the environment, to interpreting it, to generating good
options, to taking decisions and coordinating action...
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Ac on
Collec ve
Decision
Collec ve
Idea on
Collec ve
Sensemaking
Collec ve
Sensing