E-democracy platform with automated Artificial Intelligence user voting (based on user profiles) and transparent social data collection

电子民主平台，具有自动人工智能用户投票（基于用户档案）和透明的社交数据收集

• 批准号: 2112308
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2112308
• 关键词: democracy; platform; automated; Artificial; Intelligence

Currently there are a number of E-democracy 'solutions' that potentially allow the electorate to create polls, take votes and then have their elected representative vote the same way e.g. in Parliament, thus ensuring real or 'direct' democracy. However, our view is that these solutions are flawed as the electorate cannot reasonably be expected to become involved with and vote on every single issue. Existing solutions attempt to solve the above problem but are suboptimal and restrict the acceptability and uptake of the E-democracy proposal. This project aims to develop a Django 2.X based E-democracy platform with an extra option of automated Artificial Intelligence (AI) voting based on a user's profile, consisting of a number of attributes that will record a user's political views. The user will have various settings/preferences to control all aspects of automation, delegation, notifications etc.The objectives are that the platform will contain all expected features plus enhancements such as being able to notify and explain (Explainable AI, a current interest of the School) to the user how and why the automated system intends to vote if they do not vote themselves. It will also gather and display various statistics to aid the political campaigning process, and other less obvious features such as automatic profile selection of political ward/seat to aid users, administrators and allow the system to cope elegantly with electoral boundary changes etc. attributes to record a user's political views. The user will control all aspects of automation, delegation, notifications etc., through various settings/preferences. By creating true 'democracy' many current issues such as lobbying, lack of transparency etc. can be removed, leading to an accountable government and a fairer society.Widespread uptake of the platform would, with the users' permission, also provide a valuable source of transparently obtained social data for data mining. For example, as users modify their profile over time, 'live' sentiment analysis would be very useful to a government body wishing to monitor and optimize the allocation of their constrained resources.

目前有一些电子民主“解决方案”，可能允许选民创建民意调查，进行投票，然后让他们选出的代表以同样的方式投票，例如在议会中，从而确保真实的或“直接”民主。然而，我们认为，这些解决办法是有缺陷的，因为不能合理地期望选民参与每一个问题并就每一个问题投票。现有的解决方案试图解决上述问题，但不理想，并限制了电子民主提案的可接受性和吸收。该项目旨在开发一个基于Django 2.X的电子民主平台，该平台具有基于用户配置文件的自动人工智能（AI）投票的额外选项，该配置文件由许多属性组成，这些属性将记录用户的政治观点。用户将具有各种设置/偏好以控制自动化、委托、通知等的所有方面。目标是该平台将包含所有预期的功能以及增强功能，例如能够通知和解释（可解释的AI，学校当前的兴趣）用户如何以及为什么自动化系统打算投票，如果他们不自己投票。它还将收集和显示各种统计数据，以帮助政治竞选过程，以及其他不太明显的功能，例如自动选择政治选区/席位的配置文件，以帮助用户，管理员，并允许系统优雅地科普选举边界的变化等，以记录用户的政治观点。用户将控制自动化、委托、通知等的所有方面，通过各种设置/偏好。通过创建真正的“民主”，可以消除当前的许多问题，如游说，缺乏透明度等，从而建立一个负责任的政府和一个更公平的社会。在用户的许可下，该平台的广泛采用也将为数据挖掘提供透明获取的社会数据的宝贵来源。例如，当用户随时间修改他们的简档时，“实时”情感分析对于希望监控和优化其受限资源的分配的政府机构将是非常有用的。