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Di Stanford Online Deliberation Platform come from Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab and im Crowdsourced Democracy Team. Na video platform for small groups, usually eight to fifteen pipo, wey dem build to run Deliberative Polling, di method wey James Fishkin develop: dem dey poll representative sample of pipo, di sample go deliberate for small groups with balanced briefing material and questions to experts wey dey compete, and dem go poll dem again. Automated moderator dey manage di queues to tok and di timed agendas so evribodi go get fair turn, and plenti groups fit meet at di same time. Dem don use am for national and city deliberations for Canada, Chile, Hong Kong, Japan and di United States.
True Causes dey do different work. Deliberative Polling dey measure wetin representative public dey tink afta e don deliberate. True Causes dey produce map of wetin dey cause wetin, wey di pipo wey sabi di problem build, with evri link wey dem decide pair by pair.
| Stanford platform | True Causes | |
|---|---|---|
| Question wey e dey answer | Wetin representative public go tink afta deliberation wey get information? | Wetin dey cause wetin? Which causes dey deepest? |
| How pipo dey take part | Live video for small groups, with automated moderator | Writing and voting, at each pesin own pace; video call for each group if you want |
| Who dey take part | Usually random, representative sample | Di pipo wey dey involved for di problem |
| Wetin dey comot | Opinion bifor and afta, and di change between dem | Map of causes, di deepest first, with evri disagreement wey still dey on am |
| Size | Plenti small groups at di same time | Rooms of up to 100 pipo free; any number of rooms for one question |
| Open source | No | We dey host am, e no be open source. Di results dey open: pesin fit read and download di map of public room, evri claim (JSON) and evri pair wey dem judge with im vote counts (CSV) without account |
| Access | Through di Deliberative Democracy Lab | Anybodi fit open room; free up to 100 pipo |
| Turn-taking | Automated moderator dey run di queues to tok | Round-robin turns: one card for each round, your next one dey wait for oda pipo; e dey written, so nobodi dey tok on top anybodi |
| Agenda and timing | Timed agendas for each group | Seven stages, wey di coordinator dey close or shared clock wey dey keep evri room for di question togeda |
| Moderation | Automated moderation and prevention of abuse | AI reading bifor card or turn post, if you want am; if e be like attack on pesin, na only di pesin wey write am dem go tell and na im go decide; admission rules dey decide who fit join |
| Opinion bifor and afta | Dem dey measure am with surveys, na di core of Deliberative Polling | Each member private stand bifor and afta, for im own words, wey dem dey count as minds wey change |
| Languages | 40+ languages | Plenti languages: di interface dey in 57 languages; cards wey dey come from rooms for oda languages dey get translation, and dem dey keep di original |
| Analytics | Real-time analytics | Live vote counts for di coordinator, and di numbers of di instance for /stats |
Wen public body need know wetin representative sample of im population conclude about policy options afta e don hear di arguments, and e need make dat result stand up to scrutiny.
Wen di question na diagnosis: why problem no dey go. Deliberative Polling dey weigh options; True Causes dey identify which causes di options suppose target.
Dem fit follow each oda. Map di causes with di pipo wey dey closest to di problem; den put di options wey dey target di deepest causes to representative sample.
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