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Innovating for Democracy: New Technologies, New Roles

Fri, September 6, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center (PCC), 204B

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

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As the applications of deliberative minipublics proliferate, citizens are consulted with new technologies and they are being asked to take on new roles. These innovations, some employing AI to varying extents within the deliberative process itself, are opening up new vistas for the application of deliberation to public problem solving. What innovations work well (or not) and why? What problems are they encountering? This panel draws on projects from various countries with different technologies and different expectations about what members of the public need to do. Can deliberative minipublics, whether citizens assemblies, Deliberative Polls, or other designs, be made more frequent and practical through the use of new technology? Can they become so frequent that we could achieve a more deliberative society? Or do they constrain or truncate the deliberative process?

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