from citizen data to the wisdom of the crowds: the case study of decide madrid
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From citizen data to
the wisdom of crowdsAssessing the success of Decide Madrid
Pablo Aragón
Universitat Pompeu Fabra & Eurecat
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D-CENT
Europe-wide project creating open, secure and privacy-aware tools for
direct democracy and economic empowerment.
develops the building blocks of an open, decentralised, privacy-
aware Digital Ecosystem
implements a distributed and standardised identity management giving
citizens control over their personal and social data
enable real-time collective democratic deliberation and decision
making, sharing of open data, and social digital currencies for the
common good
promote large-scale adoption of open standards, free software,
open data and open APIs
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D-CENT
builds on Europe’s largest experiments in direct democracy:
Open Ministry crowdsourcing site linked into parliament in Finland
The e-democracy website Better Reykjavik in Iceland
Various platforms used by Spanish grassroots citizen coalitions.
helps social movements developing next generation of public,
federated, privacy-aware architectures and tools for direct
democracy and economic empowerment .
grows long-term alternatives to today’s highly centralized platforms and
power structures and promote …provide a positive vision of collective
intelligence in democracy in the XXI century.
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Community engagement
and maximising
outreach
Blockchain ExperimentsSocio-economic
Impact & Evidence
Open standards
Tools
tools.dcentproject.eu
Large scale pilots
Barcelona, Madrid, Helsinki, Reykjavik
Multidisciplinary research
New citizen movements; economic models based on knowledge commons;
distributed identity systems; digital social currencies
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Collaboration with the Area of Citizen
Participation, Transparency and Open
Government of the Madrid City Council.
Data Analysis of Decide Madrid in order to
monitor usage patterns, guide the
development of the platform and enhance
user experience in order to foster citizen
participation.
Open source technologies to enable the
integration of data visualization features.
Multidisciplinary Research
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Open Government Portal of Madrid
In September 2015 the new City Council of Madrid launched the new Open
Government Portal of Madrid:
Participation - DECIDE MADRID
Space to discuss and decide the city model (debates, citizen
proposals, participatory budgets, collaborative laws, etc…).
Transparency
Space to review data related to the City Council management (name
and salary of the Mayor and councillors, government plans, contracts,
public agenda, etc…) and to request access to additional information.
Open Data
Open access to databases owned by the City Council of Madrid.
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Decide Madrid
Debates
Discussion threads opened and
commented by any citizen.
Proposals
Petitions published by citizens to:
receive support from other
citizens through debates
run a public voting of the entire
population
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BetaDemIC
Research network to provide feedback
into Decide Madrid:
Political Framework
Communication
Data Analysis (D-CENT project)
Growth Hacking Process
BetaDemIC Data Analysis
Diffusion Campaigns
Which quantitative indicators can measure the impact of the
November advertising campaign on the platform activity?
Community Structure
How can we characterize the structure of communities of users
around specific topics and/or profiles?
Proposal Lifecycle
Proposals were available since mid-September.
What is the performance of this core functionality?
User Lifecycle
How do users interact when they sign up?
Online Deliberation
Deliberation is one of the key concepts for Decide Madrid.
Which metrics can quantify the level of deliberation in the debates?
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Diffusion Campaigns
Activity focused on
proposals rather
than on debates.
Citizens were
engaged in the
possibility of
achieving tangible
political goals.
Debates with
representatives
improved their
performance.
Debate
Comment to debate
Proposal
Comment to proposal
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Community Structure
Well-connected
structure without well-
defined clusters of
users: users were not
strongly clustered
around preferences.
A cluster is partially
isolated from the main
component of the
network: a community
of trolls focused on
goliardic actions.
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Community Structure
The co-tag network is
a very dense graph
but relevant tags are
clustered in:
Green nodes
mobility, health
and environment.
Red nodes
civil rights and
social services,
Blue nodes
neighbourhoods
of Madrid,
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Proposals Lifecycle
Many of the most supported proposals were published in the first days of the platform
0-100 supports
101-1000 supports
>1000 supports
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Users Lifecycle
Many users signed up
when new things
happen:
Debates
Proposals
Debates with
representatives
Diffusion campaign
brought many people
who published new
proposals rather than
commenting old ones.
Debate
Comment to debate
Proposal
Comment to proposal
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Online Deliberation
Representation and Argumentation as prerequisites for Deliberation
Gonzalez-Bailon S., Kaltenbrunner A., Banchs R. E. (2010)
The Structure of Political Discussion Networks:
A Model for the Analysis of E-Deliberation,
Journal of Information Technology, 25, 2010, pp 230-243.
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Online Deliberation
Visualization Tool for Collective Awareness in a Platform of Citizen Proposals
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Online Deliberation
h-index for quantifying Representation and Argumentation
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Conclusions
Key principle: Citizens control their own data.
To turn citizen data into the Wisdom of the Crowds, citizens must also
own open, effective and user-friendly data visualization tools.
Join us!
Democracy Lab
Workshops, hackathons and open
sessions for democratic participation
(23-27 May, Medialab-Prado)
The Commons technology and the
right to a democratic city Conference
(27-28 May, Museo Reina Sofia)
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Thank you
for your timeWebsite: www.dcentproject.eu
Twitter: @dcentproject
Vimeo: vimeo.com/dcentproject
Slideshare: slideshare.net/dcentproject
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 610349.
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