Thanks, Neema, for reaching out, and great to hear about your awesome work!
The activity you are describing could fall under the phenomenon of crowdsourcing for democracy, which is a fascinating, emerging field of inquiry in political and social sciences (and a part of my research agenda!), and could be realized for instance by using crowdsourcing platforms, such as IdeaScale or similar ones, which allow clear voting and commenting functions. Citizens' alternative (not always alternative though!) agenda for democratic processes has been practiced e.g. in Iceland in constitution reform process: http://youtu.be/4uJOjh5QBgA, and similar attempts in Egypt, Morocco, etc. Let me know if you want to discuss more, and hope to see you when you are back on campus! best, Tanja Aitamurto Visiting Researcher Program on Liberation Technology Stanford University On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Neema Moraveji <[email protected]> wrote: > Researchers, hackers, and students: > > There is a need in many countries, to support "extra-government > elections" with web-based technology (i.e., let citizens vote fairly > without government influence, extortion, etc.). I think this is a > valuable investment of time for a Libtech/HCI/CS/ICTD research > project. > > Imagine a site that allowed citizens to vote, could show the outside > world and governments themselves (which often have unreliable means of > voting/counting/etc.) how the citizens really feel about different > candidates - in a non-biased way. > > The research issues to solve: authentication, visualization, > accountability, and perhaps even access. Using common computer > components (keyboard, webcam, etc.) can such a system be delivered to > at least approximate the real sentiment of the people? At least to the > outside world? > > Does such a system already exist? > > I am in Iran right now connecting with young people and intellectuals. > I can't speak for other countries but Iran will have important > elections in 9 months. If even a prototype of such a system exists, > it could gain wide use here and be used by news agencies around the > world to broadcast the difference between govt and extra-govt voting > results. > > > All the best, > > Neema Moraveji, Ph.D. > Director > Calming Technology Lab > Media-X > Stanford University > moraveji.org, calmingtech.stanford.edu > @moraveji, @calmingtech > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- www.tanjaaitamurto.com Studying the Open X at Stanford: crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, open innovation, open data.
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