Crowdsourcing to express Citizens’ values in a way that promotes Perspective taking and Social learning
Category: 99PersonalReflection
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Can AI Help Contributors Differentiate Between Personal and Universal Values?
Status: First Draft Published for comment It is likely that some contributors will confuse their personal goals, intrinsic values, social values and universal values. I wanted to test how an automated AI might respond is asked to assist in categorising values… Do we need to guide and educate the newbie in terms of these categories…
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Why does ‘Value Prospecting with Social Learning…’ make sense to me.
I believe that the revolution in personal connectivity and information technologies offers amazing potential. Many more people can now access much more knowledge and (lived) experience, but there has not been a corresponding change in civic or deliberative processes (if these are even defined in the public mind). During periods of rapid change, and technical…
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We need a starting list of Social Values for the public to develop and improve…
Status: First Draft Published for comment The overriding requirement is for us (the application development team) to provide a blank framework and an intuitive, unbiased process for the public to represent their values efficiently and accurately. Wherever they are is our starting point, however they express their values. We also need a system which is…
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How much ‘work’ does a democratically representative value agenda ‘need’
Status: First draft for comment First of all, Value Prospecting is not intended to be ‘work’ it should be designed as a rewarding social interaction in itself – ‘meaningful fun’. I would like to think that repose and reflection are a natural part of the rhythms of life. There is a Judeo-Christian tradition in the…
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Reimagining Expressed requirements as Functional requirements
Status = First draft for comment In software design there is an essential step often performed by business (or requirements) analysts; translating stakeholders expressed requirements into functional requirements. At it’s most profound, this privileged role involves interviewing and learning about existing and proposed, material and conceptual processes and then defining the functional requirements. These are…
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Can a democratic representation of values mitigate for the way wealth inequality distorts the societal and civilisational agendas?
Status: Draft published: Not ready for comment (rough/contains questionable elements) These posts are intended to open up discussion about Value Prospecting infrastructure design. Society needs decision support and information systems that make more information and wider horizons more accessible. It needs a more representative picture of what people naturally feel is of value (individually and…