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E-Participation and Freedom of Speech

As e-participation is a democratic process, peer pressures, intimidations or coercions of e-participants could be unethical. Situations arise in participation where participants’ employers or the industries of participants’ employers have interests in political discussions. In such situations, some participants might … Continue reading

Group Decision Making Software and the Scheduling of Meetings at Venues

Though the Web and collaborative software facilitate the convenience of asynchronous collaboration and virtual meetings, groups, in particular when residing in the same cities, can schedule the use of meeting rooms, presentation rooms and auditoriums. Venues for meetings or events … Continue reading

E-Participation and Calendar, Scheduling and Tasks Software

Ideas are broached pertaining to new and emerging uses of calendar, scheduling and tasks software in educational, business and community scenarios. City governments can provide calendar services and location aware service discovery can ease configuration so that users can synchronize … Continue reading

Educational Technology, Business and Community Scenarios

Educational technology empowers educational systems, businesses, organizations and communities. Technology can provide users with task-based content, advancing productivity, as well as with information in response to their questions, to refresh their knowledge or to facilitate on-the-job training. There is a … Continue reading

Collaborative and Productivity Software are the Software of City-scale E-Participation

Collaborative and productivity software are the software of city-scale e-participation. Collaboration and productivity software empower individuals and teams in the performance of their various tasks at organizations across sectors and can facilitate various models of city-scale e-participation.

Software Analysis, Automated Theorem Proving, Plan and Argument Analysis

The technology of static program analysis, automated theorem proving, computer algebra systems, formula editors, automated planning and scheduling, plan rationale, argumentation software, argument analysis software, related document authoring and editing software as well as the features and ergonomics of such software are … Continue reading

Natural Language Technology and Public Opinion Polling

Web-based opinion polls can be enhanced by natural language processing technology. Uses of natural language technology include processing text-based responses to the questions of opinion polls, surveys or questionnaires, including why people answered one or more previous questions as they … Continue reading

The Technology of Meetings, Lectures, Discussion Panels, Dialogues, Argumentation and Debates

The technology of meetings, lectures, discussion panels, dialogues, argumentation and debates are of interest to our group. Some topics in the overlap of artificial intelligence with meetings support technology are discussed, meetings occurring in all organizations, in all sectors, academia, … Continue reading