RE: Wikipedia Articles on Voter Decision-making Processes and Technology Supporting Voter Decision-making

Owen,

As I think about it, creating technology to support the decision-making processes of voters could be a philanthropic endeavor. In my opinion, users would expect the software to be free and it’s unclear whether there exist any business models. That could be a factor with regard to why there aren’t any or many such software systems as of early 2019. There also aren’t any or many multi-source news streaming, news browsing or news organizing software applications which integrate city, state and national news. There aren’t any or many citizen dashboard applications. There are, however, software for stock traders which include real-time streaming news content. In summary, the endeavor of best equipping voters and citizens might be a philanthropic one.

We can hope that new technology can provide voters with the theoretical benefits indicated at: https://www.w3.org/community/voter-decision-support/wiki/Main_Page#Benefits_of_voter_decision_support_systems as they participate in democratic, political and economic processes at the scales of cities, states and nations.

On the topic of Wikipedia, we could enhance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_support_system#Applications .

On the topic of schemas for decision support systems for voters, an initial set of schemas for discussion are listed at: https://www.w3.org/community/voter-decision-support/wiki/Main_Page#Relevant_Schema.org_Schemas .

Thank you for the information with respect to the OPEN Government Data Act.


Best regards,
Adam

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From: Owen Ambur <Owen.Ambur@verizon.net>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 6:08:33 PM
To: public-voter-decision-support@w3.org
Subject: RE: Wikipedia Articles on Voter Decision-making Processes and Technology Supporting Voter Decision-making

Adam, I will continue to be on the lookout for any and all opportunities to raise awareness of the importance of using open, machine-readable data standards, including for decision-support systems of all types.

Perhaps voter decision support systems might be worthy of a “see also” reference at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_support_system  If any such systems were applying the StratML standard, I’d certainly want to make a run at providing reference(s) to them.  I assume any that may exist are proprietary data stovepipes … but I’d love to learn otherwise.  Indeed, I’d be delighted if the W3C were to Recommend a schema(s) for such systems.  As much as I like Wikipedia, I’d be far more interested in contributing to such a schema than yet another Wikipedia article (YAWA).

As far as machine-readability is concerned, when the President signs the OPEN Government Data Act (OGDA) into law, I plan to reference it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_document and highlight the direction for OMB & GSA to provide an online repository of schema standards.  https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4174/text#toc-H8E449FBAEFA34E45A6F1F20EFB13ED95

When time permits, I plan to document how the provisions of the new OGDA relate to the StratML standard as well as previous guidance provided in law and policy … much of which has been ignored both by bureaucrats and politicians, whom voters don’t seem to care to hold accountable for anything other than supporting their (the voter’s own) special interests.

In my view, the broader context is outlined at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-only-had-brain-evolving-prefrontal-core-text-internet-owen-ambur/  I’d love to see politics, politicians, majoritarianism, and even “voters” removed from the process as much as possible.

See also https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/re-imagining-liberalism-owen-ambur/

Owen

From: Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 1:24 PM
To: public-voter-decision-support@w3.org
Subject: Wikipedia Articles on Voter Decision-making Processes and Technology Supporting Voter Decision-making

W3C Voter Decision Support Community Group,

Greetings. I have some good and some bad news.

The bad news is that a Wikipedia article on the topics of Voter Decision Support System was deleted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_decision_support_system . Here is the transcript of the brief discussion that took place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Voter_decision_support_system .

The good news is that we can make one or more new Wikipedia articles together, perhaps using our group’s wiki pages as a staging area: https://www.w3.org/community/voter-decision-support/wiki/Main_Page . The Wikipedia articles can be on any related topics, e.g. Voter Decision-making Processes, Political Information Gathering, et cetera. Is there any interest in the group on collaborating on any such new encyclopedia articles? If so, which topics are of interest?


Best regards,
Adam Sobieski

P.S.:

Also, here are some publications of use to read and reference while authoring one or more new encyclopedia articles. Are there any other articles to recommend?

Robertson, Scott P. "Voter-centered design: Toward a voter decision support system." ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 12, no. 2 (2005): 263-292.

Kaye, Barbara K., and Thomas J. Johnson. "Online and in the know: Uses and gratifications of the web for political information." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 46, no. 1 (2002): 54-71.

Lau, Richard R., and David P. Redlawsk. How voters decide: Information processing in election campaigns. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Redlawsk, David P., and Richard R. Lau. "Behavioral decision-making." In The Oxford handbook of political psychology. 2013.

Watkins, Jennifer H., and Marko A. Rodriguez. "A survey of web-based collective decision making systems." In Evolution of the Web in Artificial Intelligence Environments, pp. 243-277. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

Robertson, Scott P., Christine E. Wania, and S. Joon Park. "An observational study of voters on the internet." In System Sciences, 2007. HICSS 2007. 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on, pp. 90-90. IEEE, 2007.

Robertson, Scott P., Palakorn Achananuparp, James L. Goldman, Sang Joon Park, Nan Zhou, and Matthew J. Clare. "Voting and political information gathering on paper and online." In CHI'05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1753-1756. ACM, 2005.

Robertson, Scott P., Christine E. Wania, George Abraham, and S. Joon Park. "Drop-Down Democracy: Internet Portal Design Influences Voters? Search Strategies." In hicss, p. 191. IEEE, 2008.

Robertson, Scott P., Ravi Vatrapu, and George Abraham. "Note taking and note sharing while browsing campaign information." In 2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp. 1-10. IEEE, 2009.

Robertson, Scott P. "Digital deliberation: searching and deciding about how to vote." In Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Digital government research, pp. 195-196. Digital Government Society of North America, 2006.