Well, that’s a surprise!
Hy Lucyanna, and welcome back onto Edgeryders! As a fan of your previous Edgeryders posts (like this one), I am pleasantly surprised you have decided to take on new themes.
Coincidentally, I am just back from a summer school where the theme of direct democracy was widely debated. The star of the debate was fellow Edgeryder [Pietro Speroni di Fenizio], who has been devoting serious amounts of work to this in the past years. He is one of the authors of a software called Vilfredo (after 19th century Italian mathematician Vilfredo Pareto), which tries to do two things:
- assist a collective decision making process making sure it stays mathematically fair.
- provide some kind of artificially intelligent moderation, connecting people so that the decision process can converge.
Have you considered checking out his work? Pietro is always on the lookout for people to interact and collaborate with. Vilfredo is also a project on Edgeryders.