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{{KidsIntro|WikiDeal wants many friendly watchtowers, run by the people themselves. Anyone can raise a topic, everyone debates it, and the most trusted voices help choose what gets looked at next.}} | {{KidsIntro|WikiDeal wants many friendly watchtowers, run by the people themselves. Anyone can raise a topic, everyone debates it, and the most trusted voices help choose what gets looked at next.}} | ||
{{ExpertIntro|Participatory Observatories (or Citizen Observatories) are unlimited in number: citizen-run, created by theme by user groups (online community moderation, whistleblowing, obsolescence risks, fundraising awareness and competition, and many others). They are intended as the bases of decision making, founded on the Slashdot karma model: debates earn karma, high-karma contributors control the debate agenda, findings feed open calls, deliverables and sometimes Condorcet votes, until innovations are adopted collectively. The purpose is reliable information plus whistleblowing against any re-privatization of the platform.}} | {{ExpertIntro|Participatory Observatories (or Citizen Observatories) are unlimited in number: citizen-run, created by theme by user groups (online community moderation, whistleblowing, obsolescence risks, fundraising awareness and competition, and many others). They are intended as the bases of decision making, founded on the Slashdot karma model: debates earn karma, high-karma contributors control the debate agenda, findings feed open calls, deliverables and sometimes Condorcet votes, until innovations are adopted collectively. The purpose is reliable information plus whistleblowing against any re-privatization of the platform.}} | ||
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* [[#what-is-it|What is it?]] | |||
* [[#karma|The karma model and "karmic democracy"]] | |||
* [[#flow|From debate to adopted innovation]] | |||
* [[#whistleblowing|Reliable information and whistleblowing]] | |||
* [[#state-of-the-art|State of the art]] | |||
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# deliverables, and possible complementary fundraising; | # deliverables, and possible complementary fundraising; | ||
# sometimes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method Condorcet votes] for the more complex decisions; | # sometimes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method Condorcet votes] for the more complex decisions; | ||
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== State of the art == | |||
Citizen-run observatories with karma moderation combine two studied traditions: distributed moderation of online conversations and citizen science. The references below document both. | |||
* Cliff Lampe and Paul Resnick (2004), ''Slash(dot) and Burn: Distributed Moderation in a Large Online Conversation Space'', Proceedings of CHI 2004: [https://doi.org/10.1145/985692.985761 doi:10.1145/985692.985761] · [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot Slashdot on Wikipedia]. | |||
* Cliff Lampe, Erik Johnston and Paul Resnick (2007), ''Follow the reader: filtering comments on Slashdot'', Proceedings of CHI 2007: [https://doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240815 doi:10.1145/1240624.1240815]. | |||
* Rick Bonney et al. (2009), ''Citizen Science: A Developing Tool for Expanding Science Knowledge and Scientific Literacy'', BioScience, 59(11): [https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2009.59.11.9 doi:10.1525/bio.2009.59.11.9] · [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_science citizen science on Wikipedia]. | |||
* Jonathan Silvertown (2009), ''A new dawn for citizen science'', Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 24(9): [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2009.03.017 doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.03.017]. | |||
* Alan Irwin (1995), ''Citizen Science: A Study of People, Expertise and Sustainable Development'', Routledge: [https://www.routledge.com/Citizen-Science-A-Study-of-People-Expertise-and-Sustainable-Development/Irwin/p/book/9780415130103 publisher page]. | |||
'''See also:''' [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Open-Calls:Main|Open Calls]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:User Groups|User Groups]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Main|All innovations]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Main|R&D Portal]] | |||
[[Category:Innovation]] | |||
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