Post in Gathering input from one million people

Feb 12 15:01 UTC

Steven Clift wrote:
> Here is my rough cut at how you might engage one million people over a month
or two - say from WhiteHouse.Gov and other government websites. (Or if it is
inconceivable that government will ever ask for input after the votes are cast,
across a network of media or other high traffic civic/political sites.)
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Looks like a good start .

A few comments/questions:

1. You might want to start a bit smaller, for testing purposes - say a
mid-sized city.  Work the bugs out before taking the thing national.

> 3.	Be given the opportunity to securely share demographic data for use in
either weighing a potential display of the results based on census data or if
not saved with the answers, to at least measure outreach to diverse groups in
society
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This piece will be critical.  Otherwise it will be easy for advocacy
groups to game the system.  Now how to get people to share demographic
data, and how to validate that data, is going to be really tricky.

> 4.	Provided an option to rate other comments and view comments (default view
+1 or above - Slashdot style, which was recently adopted by YouTube to allow
the audience bury useless comments below the visibility threshold)
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Probably need some kind of way to rate the raters, and do demographic
profiling/rating of the ratings.

> 5.	Asked to provide their e-mail address and postal code for a project
e-newsletter and other important updates
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> 6.	(Random) prizes should be available for those providing their e-mail
address (S. Korea has offered prizes on government-funded voter education
websites)
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> In addition, upon rating X number of comments, participants would be invited
to register and join the online group receiving and rating proposed questions
submitted by the public. Assuming that most questions are too biased for direct
use (E-Democracy.Orgs experience with online candidate debate questions
submissions), these super users would be empowered to amend/re-craft the best
question topics into a neutral format appropriate for question display across
the large syndicated network.