Civic Technology and Open Government According to Wikipedia, “civic technology enhances the relationship between the people and government with software for communications, decision-making, service delivery, and political process. It includes information and communications technology supporting government with software built by … Continue reading
Introduction Automated reasoning is a branch of artificial intelligence dedicated to understanding different aspects of reasoning; moral reasoning is reasoning concerned with morality. Automated moral reasoning is a research topic pertaining to the understanding of and the modeling and simulation … Continue reading
How can software detect persuasion in rhetoric and dialog occurring between people or between people and dialog systems? In Opinion Polling Systems and Virtual Opinion Pollsters, I broached dialog systems which interact with users to collect their opinions. Presented was … Continue reading
Intelligent personal assistants (i.e. Cortana, Google Assistant, Siri) or other “bots” can schedule and perform opinion polls. Specialized artificial intelligence systems, opinion polling systems or virtual opinion pollsters, can be of use to opinion polling organizations, to news organizations and … Continue reading
Ideas to provide citizens with the convenience of voting from home, ideas pertaining to electronic and postal voting, are broached. After voting online, voters can print their ballots. Printed ballots can be designed for purposes including rapid visual inspection by … Continue reading
Public school and university curricula topics include new literacies, computer literacy, Web literacy, collaborative and productivity software literacy, and e-participation proficiencies. The National Council for the Social Studies defines social studies as “the integrated study of the social sciences and … Continue reading
Collaborative, productivity and e-participation software topics include those of decision support systems and cognitive bias mitigation, including mitigating cognitive biases and fallacies of individual or group reasoning pertaining to misinformation, disinformation, manipulation, spin, persuasion and framing effects. Multi-document natural language … Continue reading
During e-participation, participants produce, consume and review city-scale government data, documents and multimedia, including real-time varieties. Participants are well-informed about topics relevant to city governance, relevant to communities. Journalists could be amongst e-participants and, alongside journalists, e-participants are envisioned as … Continue reading
A number of technologies including Office Graph can ensure that relevant, fresh, information and documents are available to individuals and groups during the performance of their tasks. Items that can be recommended, that can be routed, sorted and presented, include … Continue reading
Extending the Sitemap protocol can facilitate new conveniences and features for e-participation venues. Presently, in the Sitemap protocol, scalar priorities between 0.0 and 1.0 can be indicated for pages or URL’s. Ideas for extending the protocol include scalars per page … Continue reading
