CoDesigning Participatory Tools for a New Age: A Proposal for Combining Collective and Artificial Intelligences

In the context of a citizen lab, this article describes how a vanguard of activists, designers, scholars and participation practitioners were involved in a participatory prototyping process. CoGovern was designed as an online participation tool whose focus is to incorporate citizen preferences in lo...

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Autores: Fernández-Martínez, José Luis, López Sánchez, Maite, Rodríguez Aguilar, Juan Antonio, Sánchez Rubio, Dionisio, Zambrano Nemegyei, Berenice.
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/193486
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/193486
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Intel·ligència artificial
Presa de decisions
Artificial intelligence
Decision making
Descrição
Resumo:In the context of a citizen lab, this article describes how a vanguard of activists, designers, scholars and participation practitioners were involved in a participatory prototyping process. CoGovern was designed as an online participation tool whose focus is to incorporate citizen preferences in local policy making. It is aimed at supporting informed and transparent participatory processes while reducing the ability of sponsoring authorities to 'cherry-pick' policy proposals and avoid providing explanations. This article proposes a decision-making process that incorporates artificial intelligence techniques into a collective decision process and whose result is mainly based on standard optimization techniques rather than vote-counting.