Ensure transparency

Ability for the process to be open to the public (where possible given privacy considerations).

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Process organizers

Process organizers determine their openness to observation and the extent to which they will make process documentation public.

Citizens' assembly organizers

Citizens’ assemblies organizers allow public observers under reasonable conditions of distance and non-involvement. Items like background documents, speaker lists, agendas, final outputs and commissioning authority response documents are usually public. Governance processes may involve independent guarantors witnessing key ‘closed room’ decisions.

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Ensure transparency

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What design choices help promote the transparency of deliberative technologies, and what tradeoffs does this raise?

Does the integration of deliberative technologies raise fundamentally new transparency challenges to processes and if so, what are they?

To what extent can we clearly communicate the inner workings of AI-augmented deliberative tools?

When is selective transparency legitimate? What should always be public vs what legitimately needs confidentiality?

When is selective transparency legitimate? What should always be public vs what legitimately needs confidentiality?

Ensure transparency

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Goal: Digital tools that are as transparent as possible.

What design choices help promote the transparency of deliberative technologies, and what tradeoffs does this raise?

Does the integration of deliberative technologies raise fundamentally new transparency challenges to processes and if so, what are they?

To what extent can we clearly communicate the inner workings of AI-augmented deliberative tools?

When is selective transparency legitimate? What should always be public vs what legitimately needs confidentiality?

Goal: A guarantee of the transparency of the process data while protecting participant privacy, especially for sensitive topics.

When is selective transparency legitimate? What should always be public vs what legitimately needs confidentiality?

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