Online debate tools for participatory democracy and crowdsourcing
legislation are limited by different factors. One of
them arises when discussion of proposals reaches a large
number of contributions and therefore citizens encounter difficulties
in mapping the arguments that constitute the dialectical
debate. To address this issue, we present a visualization
tool that shows the discussion of any proposal as an interactive
radial tree. The tool builds on Decide Madrid, a recently
created platform ...
Online debate tools for participatory democracy and crowdsourcing
legislation are limited by different factors. One of
them arises when discussion of proposals reaches a large
number of contributions and therefore citizens encounter difficulties
in mapping the arguments that constitute the dialectical
debate. To address this issue, we present a visualization
tool that shows the discussion of any proposal as an interactive
radial tree. The tool builds on Decide Madrid, a recently
created platform for direct democracy launched by the City
Council of Madrid. Decide Madrid is one of the most relevant
platforms that allows citizens to propose, debate and
prioritise city policies.
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