Polis: Escalar de la deliberación mediante el mapeo de espacios de opinión de alta dimensión

Deliberative and participatory approaches to democracy seek directly include citizens in decision-making agenda-setting processes. These methods date back the very foundations of Athens, where regular shared burden governance deliberated every major issue. However, thinkers at time rightly believed that these could not function beyond scale city-state, or polis. Representative as an innovation improved on scalability collective decision making, but doing so, sacrificed extent which participate deliberation. Modern technology, including advances computational power, machine learning algorithms, data visualization techniques, presents a unique opportunity out deliberative Here we describe Polis, open source web application capable collecting synthesizing feedback from people scalable distributed fashion. Polis has shown itself building understanding, disincentivizing counterproductive behavior (trolling), cultivating points consensus. It done this context journalistic academic research, part bodies local national levels, affecting legislation. results demonstrate processes can be scaled up constraints in-person gatherings small groups.