MIDAS - Members of the Institute Data and Arbitration Services

该项目旨在通过公众咨询和参与领域的新数据资产的创建、探索和利用，创造未来的经济效益。具体来说，就是建立“咨询数据仓库”和仲裁服务，以满足新冠疫情带来的新需求。目前，咨询师没有办法对他们的咨询进行基准测试，以确定它们是否有效。例如，如果反应以某种方式异常倾斜，或者哪种类型的表征是“正常的”。因此，咨询人员对这一过程的信心下降，咨询人员也无法帮助预测他们所面临的问题的突出程度。同样，由于“分布式对话”（在不同地点和不同时间发生的关于相同问题的多次对话或磋商）的兴起，也没有共同的智慧。这种结果的碎片化意味着政府无法从这些见解中受益，从而导致反应不足。利用这些数据不仅仅是为了增加协会的收入，比如通过增加会员数量。有责任进行咨询的组织可以通过更好地规划和优化运营，以及减少和管理虚假参与欺诈等风险，利用数据来降低成本。此外，我们建议创建一个新的在线仲裁服务_承载这一新知识。这将使公民能够找到更容易的补救办法，减轻对法律制度的压力，并减少与司法审查有关的行业成本。它还将为国际监管机构的转介创造一个市场。

This project aims to create future economic benefit from the creation, exploration and exploitation of a new data asset in the field of public consultation and engagement. Specifically, the creation of a "_consultation data warehouse_" and arbitration services to meet new needs caused due to Covid-19\.At the moment, consultors have no way of bench-marking their consultations to determine if they are effective. For example, if the responses are abnormally skewed in some way or what type of representation is "normal". Consequently, there is diminished confidence by consultees in the process and no way for consultors to help predict salience in terms of the issues they face.Similarly, there is no common wisdom due to the rise in "distributed dialogues" (multiple conversations or consultations happening at different places and different times but about the same issues). This fragmentation of results means that government cannot benefit from the insights and this results in under-responsiveness.Leveraging this data is not only about incremental revenue generation for the Institute, such as through increased membership. Organisations who have a duty to consult can use data to reduce costs through better planning and optimisation of operations, as well as reducing and managing risk such as fake-participation-fraud.Furthermore, we propose creating a new online _arbitration service_ which piggybacks on this new knowledge. This would enable citizens to find easier ways of redress, alleviate pressure on the legal system and reduce the industry costs associated with judicial review. It would also create a marketplace for referrals from international regulators.