iDEM: Innovative and Inclusive Democratic Spaces for Deliberation and Participation

由于几个易受伤害的社区被排除在民主空间之外并被边缘化，协商和参与性进程目前缺乏充分的合法性。Idem将在边缘化和排斥需要支持才能完全读、写和理解语言的人(欧盟约600万人和全球9000多万人)的背景下解决这一问题。Idem将为分析目前由于语言技能而被不同代表性群体的审议进程边缘化的现象奠定理论基础，并提议、实施和评价包容性的审议和参与空间。它将采用以用户为中心的办法，使参与性进程更容易获得和包容性，开发先进的自然语言处理技术和人工智能，以增强代表性不足群体的能力，使其有工具促进民主空间中的沟通和对话。Idem将共同创建下一代多语言模型，旨在(1)为几种欧洲语言和受众在理解信息和偏见方面发现可能的问题来源，(2)自动调整这些语言的文本，使这些受众能够理解和不偏不倚，(3)提供人工智能工具，以增强信息和语篇的可控生成。Idem将用定制的、以用户为中心的技术创新民主空间，通过提供不偏不倚和包容的技术，加强边缘化群体的参与和代表性。为此，Idem还将在以往相关项目成果的基础上再接再厉，寻求与相关项目和欧洲相关民主中心的合作。

Deliberative and participatory processes currently lack full legitimacy due to the exclusion and marginalisation of several vulnerablecommunities from democratic spaces. iDEM will address this issue in the context of marginalisation and exclusion of people who needsupport to fully be able to read, write and comprehend language (around six million individuals in the EU and over 90 million peopleglobally). iDEM will lay the theoretical foundations for the analysis of current marginalisation from deliberative processes of diverseunder-represented groups due to language skills and propose, implement, and evaluate inclusive deliberative and participatory spaces.It will adopt a user-centred approach for making participatory processes more accessible and inclusive, developing advanced naturallanguage processing technologies and artificial intelligence to empower under-represented groups with tools to facilitate communicationand dialog in democratic spaces. iDEM will co-create the next-generation multilingual models aimed at (1) detecting possible sourcesof problems in understanding messages and biases for several European languages and audiences, (2) automatically adapting texts inthose languages to be accessible and unbiased for these audiences, (3) providing AI tools for enhancing the controllable generation ofmessages and discourses. iDEM will innovate democratic spaces with customised, user-centric technology enhancing the participationand representation of marginalised groups by providing unbiased and inclusive technology. To do so, iDEM will also build on the resultsof relevant past projects, and seek collaboration with related projects and relevant centres for democracy in Europe.