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At many levels, we would benefit from better decision-making tools. This includes voting tools with various ballot options and good accountability. Better tool

by dj-wonk 10y ago

At many levels, we would benefit from better decision-making tools. This includes voting tools with various ballot options and good accountability. Better tooling and awareness around collective decision making is valuable for groups at many levels. Such tooling and awareness does not have to be linked with large changes to country- or world-level governance. It can start with replacing an unstructured Slack discussion with a lightly structured collective deliberation tool, for example. Political change is hard. I support people who want to better their situation through political means. At the same time, I advocate for better collective user experience design, so I want to see small victories around social and deliberative technology.

dj-wonk 10y ago
Do you have favorite tools and algorithms for collaborative decision making and/or voting? Please share. Also, I would appreciate responses and feedback on an old post of mine titled "Better Online Voting": http://djwonk.tumblr.com/post/42305919307/better-online-voting http://djwonk.tumblr.com/post/42305919307/better-online-voti... Some areas I've followed include... papers about blockchain technology applied to voting... cryptographic consensus algorithms... I'd like to see what else people recommend. Thanks.
- qznc 10y ago
  My problem is not to find a good tool/algorithm. I rather experience the problem to get people from unstructured (no tool/algo) to structured decision making (any tool/algo). For example, finding a date for a meeting can easily keep a few people busy chatting in a WhatsApp group. A link to http://doodle.com/ http://doodle.com/ is ignored. It might help, if WhatsApp integrates a simple pool mechanism into group chat. Annotation: Please, use a good UI. Not a chat bot, which leads to even more messages.
heysunshine123 10y ago
Political change is hard because our leaders aren't interested in our well-being, which is blindingly obvious if you look at the kind of legislation they're passing. A recent example is the so-called "Snooper's Charter": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016 You could discuss the technicalities or nuances involved, but what is that, really, besides a big "fuck you" to the peasant population, and yet another step towards a full-blown police state? When "We the People" want "political change", it's not that kind of change. But that's what we're getting, despite the fact that our dear leaders know full well we don't want it. So what are we to do? Wait for the next election to vote the bums out, to replace them with the umpteenth set of new bums? You know something is fundamentally wrong with "the system" when we have roughly two choices in practical terms: 1) Wait for a (global) police state to engulf us all. 2) Forcefully resist somehow. #1 will not be avoided through writing to your congress-critters.

by dj-wonk 10y ago

dj-wonk 10y ago

Do you have favorite tools and algorithms for collaborative decision making and/or voting? Please share. Also, I would appreciate responses and feedback on an old post of mine titled "Better Online Voting": http://djwonk.tumblr.com/post/42305919307/better-online-voting http://djwonk.tumblr.com/post/42305919307/better-online-voti... Some areas I've followed include... papers about blockchain technology applied to voting... cryptographic consensus algorithms... I'd like to see what else people recommend. Thanks.

qznc 10y ago
My problem is not to find a good tool/algorithm. I rather experience the problem to get people from unstructured (no tool/algo) to structured decision making (any tool/algo). For example, finding a date for a meeting can easily keep a few people busy chatting in a WhatsApp group. A link to http://doodle.com/ http://doodle.com/ is ignored. It might help, if WhatsApp integrates a simple pool mechanism into group chat. Annotation: Please, use a good UI. Not a chat bot, which leads to even more messages.

heysunshine123 10y ago

Political change is hard because our leaders aren't interested in our well-being, which is blindingly obvious if you look at the kind of legislation they're passing. A recent example is the so-called "Snooper's Charter": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016 You could discuss the technicalities or nuances involved, but what is that, really, besides a big "fuck you" to the peasant population, and yet another step towards a full-blown police state? When "We the People" want "political change", it's not that kind of change. But that's what we're getting, despite the fact that our dear leaders know full well we don't want it. So what are we to do? Wait for the next election to vote the bums out, to replace them with the umpteenth set of new bums? You know something is fundamentally wrong with "the system" when we have roughly two choices in practical terms: 1) Wait for a (global) police state to engulf us all. 2) Forcefully resist somehow. #1 will not be avoided through writing to your congress-critters.