We have a range of volunteer opportunities for frontend and backend engineers (React/legacy Backbone.JS/D3), as well as data scientists (python / clojure). We also have a range of opportunities to work with organizations around the world that need but don't have the data science background necessary to properly implement the tool. There's manual work to do here that usually means getting on video with people in different time zones.
We have some refactoring needs that are still in flight as we are still in a long transition from startup codebase to 'easy to deploy' generalized OSS repo.
2. Where is this going?
We're excited to see people deploying this around the world, (a process that has been eased by community volunteers along with investment from governments). Because of Schrems II, OSS platforms have a degree of competitive advantage in Europe as those governments that need to own their own data, and there are also big pushes for deliberative democracy there.
While we've worked around the world, bringing the methods / deliberative democracy to the United States is still something we're working out. The 501c3 is presently pursuing a strategy to 'compile' online deliberations to ballot propositions in places with small amounts of signatures needed, with the idea that if we take a known issue area (say opioids) + population sample + emergent discussion we'll discover a solution space, as the tech has elsewhere (like Taiwan), that won't then kick off the kind of adversarial advertising campaigns referendums usually attract. Potentially multiple zeros cheaper, and hopefully better outcomes. We're presently working on our first of these. Follow https://twitter.com/compdem for updates.
My writing about the future of democracy (working on a book) is presently focused on whether or not we can replace political parties in practice and compile a better high dimensional space to a legislature of independents. https://web.archive.org/web/20190629035125/https://civichall...
3. Any big deployments?
UNDP has just concluded what they think may have been the largest _online_ deliberative exercises in the developing world in history, in Bhutan, Pakistan, and East Timor. The full report will eventually be posted to https://twitter.com/compdem
1. Where can I help?
We have a range of volunteer opportunities for frontend and backend engineers (React/legacy Backbone.JS/D3), as well as data scientists (python / clojure). We also have a range of opportunities to work with organizations around the world that need but don't have the data science background necessary to properly implement the tool. There's manual work to do here that usually means getting on video with people in different time zones.
We have some refactoring needs that are still in flight as we are still in a long transition from startup codebase to 'easy to deploy' generalized OSS repo.
2. Where is this going?
We're excited to see people deploying this around the world, (a process that has been eased by community volunteers along with investment from governments). Because of Schrems II, OSS platforms have a degree of competitive advantage in Europe as those governments that need to own their own data, and there are also big pushes for deliberative democracy there.
https://twitter.com/ICesnulaityte/status/1463426562783694857 https://participedia.net/ https://netdem.nl/en/projects/pol-is-in-nederland/
While we've worked around the world, bringing the methods / deliberative democracy to the United States is still something we're working out. The 501c3 is presently pursuing a strategy to 'compile' online deliberations to ballot propositions in places with small amounts of signatures needed, with the idea that if we take a known issue area (say opioids) + population sample + emergent discussion we'll discover a solution space, as the tech has elsewhere (like Taiwan), that won't then kick off the kind of adversarial advertising campaigns referendums usually attract. Potentially multiple zeros cheaper, and hopefully better outcomes. We're presently working on our first of these. Follow https://twitter.com/compdem for updates.
My writing about the future of democracy (working on a book) is presently focused on whether or not we can replace political parties in practice and compile a better high dimensional space to a legislature of independents. https://web.archive.org/web/20190629035125/https://civichall...
3. Any big deployments?
UNDP has just concluded what they think may have been the largest _online_ deliberative exercises in the developing world in history, in Bhutan, Pakistan, and East Timor. The full report will eventually be posted to https://twitter.com/compdem