⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

Participation Officer Network: PDIS helped create a network of civil servants across departments committed to citizen participation, collaboration across government departments and digital feedback,

by deploying alternative news feed algorithms on in-silico social media platforms, where large language model (LLM) agents that mimic human social media users interact with one another, we can explore and test the impact of these alternative algorithms on macro-level social outcomes, such as conflicts and polarization.[385]

distributed storage to guard against malicious content takedowns and of “zero trust” principles in ensuring the security of citizen accounts.

collective response systems can play just as important a role in mapping and evolving conflict dynamically as helping to navigate it productively.

The demands of ⿻ identity systems supporting some of the above suggest that while voting in new transnational configurations is imaginable, systems of voting are unlikely any time soon to truly reach global legitimacy.

The potential for exploitation of creative content and ideas by corporate overreach is a significant concern.

how these systems might be redesigned with the opposite intention of “bridging” the crowd.

matching funds should be proportioned to the square of the sum of square roots of individual contributions, giving greater weight to a large number of small contributors than to a few large ones.[449] Recently designs have stretched beyond traditional individualistic designs to account for ⿻ group interests and affiliations.[450]

gone beyond symbolic support to awarding real funding to valued projects (such as around agricultural and food safety inspections) using an extension of Quadratic Voting to Funding