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

Adam, it seems to me that GuideStar provides a pretty good model on which to
build.  See the description of their Platinum rating at
https://trust.guidestar.org/guidestar-platinum-measuring-nonprofit-performan
ce-at-scale 

 

Query on "voter education" at https://www.guidestar.org/Home.aspx  None of
the top hits has a platinum rating and it appears that few, if any of them
do.  However, that query identifies 1,367 potential partners for the W3C in
this effort.

 

It seems to me the key is to focus on what politicians plan to DO, not
merely what they SAY, much less what others say about them, all of which is
highly biased and thus inherently untrustworthy.

 

It should become socially unacceptable, indeed unimaginable, that any
politician could get elected to any office without publishing her plan in an
open, standard, machine-readable format like StratML.

 

BTW, the President signed the OPEN Gov Data Act (OGDA).  It's now the law .
but, unfortunately, as in the case of section 10 of GPRAMA, bureaucrats have
demonstrated amazing distain for the rule of law:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-machine-readable-government-owen-ambur/
Meanwhile, although the OGDA requires OMB and GSA to maintain a repository
of schema standards, the W3C seems to have little regard for its own XSD
standard.

 

Owen

 

From: Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com> 
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 10:52 PM
To: Owen Ambur <Owen.Ambur@verizon.net>;
public-voter-decision-support@w3.org
Subject: 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

 

  _____  

From: Owen Ambur <Owen.Ambur@verizon.net <mailto:Owen.Ambur@verizon.net> >
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 6:08:33 PM
To: public-voter-decision-support@w3.org
<mailto: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-H8E449
FBAEFA34E45A6F1F20EFB13ED95  

 

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-tex
t-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
<mailto:adamsobieski@hotmail.com> > 
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 1:24 PM
To: public-voter-decision-support@w3.org
<mailto: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.