Co-Designing Participatory Tools for a New Age

2020 ◽  
pp. 860-877
Author(s):  
José Luis Fernández-Martínez ◽  
Maite López-Sánchez ◽  
Juan Antonio Rodríguez Aguilar ◽  
Dionisio Sánchez Rubio ◽  
Berenice Zambrano Nemegyei
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Optimization Techniques ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Techniques ◽  
Participatory Processes ◽  
Citizen Preferences ◽  
Policy Proposals

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.

Co-Designing Participatory Tools for a New Age

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
José Luis Fernández-Martínez ◽  
Maite López-Sánchez ◽  
Juan Antonio Rodríguez Aguilar ◽  
Dionisio Sánchez Rubio ◽  
Berenice Zambrano Nemegyei
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Optimization Techniques ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Participatory Processes ◽  
Citizen Preferences ◽  
Policy Proposals

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.

Using Artificial Intelligence in Massive Open Online Courses

2019 ◽  
pp. 116-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emel Güler ◽  
Buket Karatop
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Techniques ◽  
Training Materials ◽  
Ongoing Development

It can be said that the reflection of the philosophy of Transhumanism on education creates a threat to the survival of human civilization or, on the contrary, focuses on technologies that try to create opportunities to overcome basic human limitations. MOOCs are still a major tool in the ongoing development of opportunities to teach the whole community. With MOOCs, interactive student-oriented large audiences can be reached instantly. The MOOCs, which offer great opportunities, should be made intelligent by the interaction of the curricula and the learner in order to achieve more effective results. As MOOCs are student-friendly, it is important that, when preparing training materials, the curriculum is formulated strategically. It is important that stakeholders' views are involved in decision-making using artificial intelligence techniques because learning is too important to be left to coincidence.

scholarly journals Nonprofit Organizations’ Involvement in Participatory Processes: The Need for Democratic Accountability

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-83
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. Mosley
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Democratic Accountability ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Government Decision ◽  
Participatory Processes ◽  
Developed Nations ◽  
Policy Proposals

AbstractParticipatory processes – defined as formal efforts to involve constituents in government decision-making – are an increasingly common tool adopted by public agencies and other elite decision making bodies in many developed nations. Unfortunately, although conceptualized as a way to incorporate lay citizens as stakeholders, participation in such processes takes time and expertise that many citizens do not have. As a result, nonprofit leaders are often invited to participate as a logistical shortcut for citizen involvement. This representation, albeit nonelected and unaccountable, is an increasingly important way vulnerable groups are represented and a key aspect of many nonprofit organizations’ advocacy involvement. It is important to ask, then, how well nonprofits do when attempting to represent specific claimed constituents. It is likely their success varies greatly. While many organizations work to engage constituents in democratic ways – including ongoing outreach and communication strategies, establishing participatory mechanisms within their own organizations, and soliciting resident feedback – other nonprofits do not. Based on the authors’ collaborative research, his brief identifies four specific policy proposals that may help facilitate the inclusionary goals of participatory processes, promote democratic accountability among nonprofit representatives, and make sure the needs of vulnerable citizens are met.

scholarly journals Decision making with support of artificial intelligence

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (No. 9) ◽  
pp. 385-388
Author(s):  
I. Rábová ◽  
V. Konečný ◽  
A. Matiášová
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Decision Processes ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Enterprise Information Systems ◽  
Software Modules ◽  
Competition Ability

  Development of software modules for decision support is currently a basic trend in the creation of enterprise Information Systems (IS). The IS is basically a support system of the enterprise Decision System, therefore we can regard it as a very important factor of the competition ability and enterprise prosperity. Conventional IS modules provide the enterprise managers a lot of useful information. Nevertheless, own decision process in view of difficulty, complexity or creation disability of decision process model is very often problematic. This contribution is oriented by its content to appropriate choice realization of modules for support decision processes by using of artificial intelligence methods.      

Rationales for Public Participation in Environmental Policy and Governance: Practitioners' Perspectives

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (11) ◽  
pp. 2688-2704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Wesselink ◽  
Jouni Paavola ◽  
Oliver Fritsch ◽  
Ortwin Renn
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Policy Integration ◽  
Participatory Processes ◽  
Realistic Assessment ◽  
Eu Directives

Participation has become a mantra in environmental governance. However, there are signs that the participatory agenda has started to lose its momentum and justification because of disappointments about actual achievements. Rather than focusing on improving participatory processes or articulating best practices, in this paper we seek to understand the more fundamental reasons why difficulties are encountered. In our interviews with professionals involved in participation in environmental governance we found varying and potentially conflicting rationales for participation, with instrumental and legalistic rationales dominating. We contend that the institutional and political context in which this participation takes place is an important explanation of this prevalence. This includes the provisions for participation in EU directives, failing policy integration, institutional and political barriers, and failing political uptake of results from participation. We conclude there is a need for more reflexive awareness of the different ways in which participation is defined and practised in contemporary environmental policy making and for a more realistic assessment of possibilities for changes towards more participatory and deliberative decision making.

scholarly journals Assessing Survey Satisficing: The Impact of Unmotivated Questionnaire Responding on Data Quality

2021 ◽  
pp. 0013189X2110400
Author(s):  
Christine Calderon Vriesema ◽  
Hunter Gehlbach
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Student Surveys ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Impact

Education researchers use surveys widely. Yet, critics question respondents’ ability to provide high-quality responses. As schools increasingly use student surveys to drive local policy making, respondents’ (lack of) motivation to provide quality responses may threaten the wisdom of using questionnaires for data-based decision making. To better understand student satisficing—the practice of suboptimal responding on surveys—and its impact on data quality, we examined its pervasiveness and impact on a large-scale social–emotional learning survey administered to 409,721 elementary and secondary students. Findings indicated that despite the prevalence of satisficing, its impact on data quality appeared more modest than anticipated. We conclude by outlining an accessible approach for defining and calculating satisficing for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.

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