About the Computational Democracy ProjectPrimarily, the organization considers how what is possible in collective intelligence might advance over the course of the next century, given advancements in machine learning, and how we can enable those who seek to empower citizens to operationalize those advancements in policy-making processes.Computational Democracy ProjectCDP_f7c70f5c-8be0-11ee-8535-020b0083ea00The Computational Democracy Project was founded in 2018 as a non-profit continuation of Polis's open source work and the mission behind it.A world in which governance better reflects public will_f7c71074-8be0-11ee-8535-020b0083ea00To bring data science to deliberative democracy_f7c711e6-8be0-11ee-8535-020b0083ea00DemocracyWe believe democratic processes benefit when human voices are treated with the deepest possible respect, and have seen firsthand how new methods of synthesizing human voices can be immensely powerful agents of change.RespectSynthesisInclusivityUltimately, we seek a world in which political agenda-setting power rests in the hands of the most inclusive possible set of engaged citizens and independent public servants, rather than in the hands of established factions, special interests, parties, and pundits.EngagementDeliberation & Decision MakingResearch, develop, support and maintain open tools and systems which leverage advanced mathematics and computation to enable novel processes of citizen driven decision making, public deliberation and participatory self governance_f7c7127c-8be0-11ee-8535-020b0083ea00FacilitatorsAugmenting facilitators ~ Democratic governments are a form of collective intelligence. The means to acheiving intelligence in democratic governance structures is, uniformly, deliberation -- a bringing together of diverse people and ideas to better understand an environment and steer via policy. ^^ The tools and methods CompDem brings to the global democracy ecosystem augment facilitators, who come in many forms. Democratic GovernmentsNewsroomsSometimes these are newsrooms facilitating public conversation around news stories.ResearchersOther times these are academics, facilitating sharing the views of the public more formally through research.Government OfficialsOther times these facilitators are in government and need better ways to handle a flood of public comment, or activists organizing diverse coalitions and trying to figure out who speaks for a movement and what perspectives are on the periphery.The PublicBy enabling earnest, public minded facilitators to create better portraits of the public in their own words, we seek to use technology for the public good and turn agenda setting power back to the public.To accomplish this, we research, develop, support and maintain open tools and systems which leverage advanced mathematics and computation to enable novel processes of citizen driven decision making, public deliberation and participatory self governance. We design for collective intelligence applied towards the public good, and pioneer new methods and tools that enable facilitators of all kinds to listen effectively at ever-larger scales. As data science methods advance, CompDem will continue to use them to push the bounds of what's possible in democratic methods, bringing them to bear on the most complex problems facing humanity.Conversations & AnalysesProvide data science services in the form of Polis conversations and subsequent analysis_f7c712fe-8be0-11ee-8535-020b0083ea00Independent Media OutletsAcademicsGovernmentsNon-ProfitsThe Computational Democracy Project provides data science services in the form of Polis conversations and subsequent analysis to independent media outlets, academics, governments and non-profits.2018-12-312023-11-25https://compdemocracy.org/aboutOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net