Augmenting participation, co-creation, trust and transparency in Deliberative Democracy at all scale

奥比斯解决了雄心勃勃的想法和大规模社会技术规模的集体行动之间的脱节。它回应了公民身份和决策机构之间严重缺乏对话的问题，提供了理论上合理和高度务实的社会技术解决方案，使欧洲能够过渡到更具包容性、更透明和更值得信任的协商民主。该项目塑造并支持通过协商民主进程形成的新的民主模式；它遵循一种社会建设性的方法，即协商民主不是规定新的民主做法和模式的理论，而是我们可以通过其集体想象和实现它们的过程。奥比斯为理解和促进新的参与性民主模式的出现提供了新的途径，以及在机构一级扩大和巩固这些模式的机制。它提供了：(1)审议参与和大规模共同创造的可靠方法；(2)在不同环境中促进审议参与的新型人工智能工具；(3)加强自由民主国家审议进程和代议制机构之间联系的新型社会技术方法；(4)应用公民审议程序产生的新的循证民主模式；(5)展示了这种创新在现实世界环境中的可衡量影响。该项目以尖端人工智能工具和技术为基础，开发可持续的数字解决方案，并在政治和社会科学、社会创新、人工智能、辩论和数字民主等领域架起理论和技术解决方案的桥梁。通过在不同规模和背景下处理当代问题的六个用例，试验不同的公民参与和审议模式，并涉及不同类型的利益攸关方，验证了项目目标的实现。

ORBIS addresses the disconnects between ambitious ideas and collective actions at a large socio-technical scale. It responds to the profound lack of dialogue between citizenship and policy making institutions by providing a theoretically sound and highly pragmatic socio-technical solution to enable the transition to a more inclusive, transparent and trustful Deliberative Democracy in Europe. The project shapes and supports new democratic models that are developed through deliberative democracy processes; it follows a socioconstructive approach in which deliberative democracy is not a theory which prescribes new democratic practices and models, but rather the process through which we can collectively imagine and realize them. ORBIS provides new ways to understand and facilitate the emergence of new participatory democracy models, together with the mechanisms to scale them up and consolidate them at institutional level. It delivers: (i) a sound methodology for deliberative participation and co-creation at scale; (ii) novel AI-enhanced tools for deliberative participation across diverse settings; (iii) a novel socio-technical approach that augments the articulation between deliberative processes and representative institutions in liberal democracies; (iv) new evidence-based democratic models that emerge from the application of citizen deliberation processes; (v) demonstrated measurable impact of such innovations in real-world settings. The project builds on cutting-edge AI tools and technologies to develop a sustainable digital solution, and bridges theories and technological solutions from the fields of political and social science, social innovation, Artificial Intelligence, argumentation and digital democracy. The achievement of the project’s goal is validated through six use cases addressing contemporary issues at different scales and settings, experimenting with different civic participation and deliberation models, and involving diverse types of stakeholders.