One of the difficulties of any debate is how to extract the pertinent points. Interactive Democracy provides a system that can turn debate into data for analysis in many different ways. It does this by allowing people to vote point by point, question by question and on what type of evidence is being presented, from Heresay to Good Quality Empirical. Furthermore, the identity of voters, though hidden from public view, can include their age, location and qualifications.
These classifications allow users, including journalists and politicians, to analyse the debate in all sorts of different ways. It will enable better questions and summaries from journalists, new points from commentators, more focused campaigns from politicians and better law formulation from the legislature.
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Showing posts with label legislature. Show all posts
Saturday, 23 June 2012
Turning Debate into Data
Labels:
analysis,
campaigners,
data,
debate,
democracy,
demographics,
interactive democracy,
journalists,
legislature,
politicians
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