[Ci4cg-announce] Towards a Public Communication and Information Infrastructure Part II

[Justin Smith]

Not really sure if any of this is relevant to your effort.

But, have you seen this? http://opportunity.census.gov/#connect. Would be
interesting to consider ways to integrate some of these services into an
open platform that allows for deliberation, argument mapping and content
sharing.

And Doug, we are already building it! One chunk at a time.... It think it
would be cool to know what other projects are happening that implement some
feature set of the ideal citizen platform, and see if they come with some
type of API. This might be a way for different groups to work independently
on different aspects of the platform and then link it all together.

A gentleman and I are working on an argument mapper type of technology that
generates a mind-map of sorts based upon websites, facebook posts, tweets,
etc. It generates a "framing" of issues in social media. Hopefully, it will
produce a measure of rationality and ideology in our public discourse.
Perhaps, a citizen platform would include something like this but people
could respond directly to the map, provide counter arguments, include links
to evidence and so forth.

Cheers,
Justin


On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Doug Schuler <
douglas at publicsphereproject.org> wrote:

> Thanks to everybody that sent me their ideas! I thought I'd send out the
> note that is intended to clarify what I'm looking for — although it might
> just add more confusion...  — Doug
>
>
> I'm currently working on a short paper — basically an editorial or op-ed —
> on the idea of an open-ended, non-profit, citizen-led public alternative
> communication and information infrastructure project. I’m not exactly sure
> what that means but I’m envisioning something that supports a variety of
> basic features that people use (search, chat, photo posting, etc. etc.) as
> well as more advanced features such as deliberation, collaboration,
> decision-making, etc. It would probably need to be built with federated,
> integrated, distributed open source modules and be governed by its users
> and developers in some sort of open public way. It would be used without
> surveillance, data harvesting, censorship. The paper won't be long and it
> certainly won't be authoritative or comprehensive; at this point I'm just
> trying to help surface the idea and get feedback.
>
> My plan is to build the case somewhat in the paper and to suggest some
> ideas that are likely to be useful in thinking about moving forward. That's
> why I'm writing to you all.
>
> If you have any points or suggestions or examples that I need to know
> about as I work forward I'd love to hear them. I probably won't be able to
> incorporate everything in this initial piece but, ideally, as time goes on,
> the suggestions you make would help inform the project.
>
> Please send me your thoughts on this.
>
> Thanks!!
>
> — Doug
>
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