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

目前有许多电子民主“解决方案”，潜在地允许选民创建投票、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，从而确保真正的或“直接的”民主。然而，我们认为，这些解决方案是有缺陷的，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。现有的解决办法试图解决上述问题，但效果不佳，限制了电子民主提案的可接受性和接受度。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个人资料的自动人工智能(AI)投票的额外选项，包括一些将记录用户政治观点的属性。用户将有不同的设置/首选项来控制自动化、委托、通知等所有方面。目标是该平台将包含所有预期的功能以及增强功能，例如能够向用户通知并解释(可解释的人工智能，学校当前的兴趣)，如果用户不自己投票，自动化系统打算如何投票以及为什么投票。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，如自动选择政治选区/席位，以帮助用户、管理员和使系统能够优雅地处理选区分界的变化等属性，以记录用户的政治观点。用户将通过各种设置/偏好控制自动化、委托、通知等的所有方面。通过建立真正的“民主”，可以消除当前的许多问题，如游说、缺乏透明度等，从而产生一个负责任的政府和更公平的社会。在用户许可的情况下，该平台的广泛使用也将为数据挖掘提供一个有价值的透明获得的社会数据来源。例如，随着用户随着时间的推移修改他们的个人资料，“实时”情绪分析将对希望监控和优化其有限资源分配的政府机构非常有用。

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.