Implementation of Web-based Consensus Support System for Campus Greening Project: Preliminary Results

Towards Hypedermocracy: Case Studies on an Agent-powered Online Discussion Support Systems

“…The UN published a report on the results of the survey. These were reported in a report published by the United Nations, and have attracted attention from the perspective of humanitarian assistance [5,6,11,14].…”

“…In 2013, we developed the COLLAGREE system [2,9,15,17,14], which was actually used to collect citizens' opinions on the next comprehensive plan of Nagoya City in collaboration with Nagoya City , and conducted a social experiment. In the COLLAGREE system, a human facilitated online discussion.…”

Using Decision Support System to Enable Crowd Identify Neighborhood Issues and Its Solutions for Policy Makers: An Online Experiment at Kabul Municipal Level

“…AI-enabled, online-discussions support the forums of automated discussion facilitation, visualization, and annotation in ways that traditional online forums and social networks cannot support [24,58,73]. These systems are appropriate models for enabling citizen-participation process in planning processes to help reach agreements and harness collective insights for both decision and policy making, e.g., [25,64,74].…”

“…Researchers have been inspired by recent trends in information communication technologies (ICTs), which are analogous to Arnstein's ladder of citizen participation [4], and a new topology has been adopted to reframe participatory planning as participatory eparticipation and planning [23]. Participatory e-planning resembles e-participation using online participative methodologies [24,25] to empower citizens to climb the participation rungs in urban policy processes without time or space limits [26][27][28]. However, researchers argue that a publicly virtual presence without supportive means through online social platforms alone cannot guarantee meaningful discussions and consultations because it fails to provide such (1) supportive means to facilitate a fair reasoning process among all stakeholders [29] or (2) incentive mechanisms required to stimulate efficient communication and collaboration among users [30].…”

“…Some research argues that forums must provide supportive means like automated facilitation [30,33], discussion annotation [33,34], incentivized discussions [35,36], real-time visualization [34], and the involvement of every stakeholder to actively seek community input on planning issues and proper responses by linking processes to action [37,38]. In this background, online discussion and decision platforms based on supportive means are attracting great attention as approaches that overcome these shortcomings-if properly deployed in collaboration with local governments [12,24,25,39]. These systems might be used as a sustainable complement [40,41] to support traditional participatory methods and tools [42,43] by removing the inequalities of access information and participatory mechanism [44], engaging crowds and harnessing collective intelligence [39,45,46], removing gender barriers to exceed collective intelligence [47], and establishing links between the collective participatory processes and actions [37].…”