Civicbase: An open‐source platform for deploying Quadratic Voting for Survey Research

• DOI: 10.1002/aaai.12103
• Publication Date: 2023-08-08T03:59:13Z
• Authors: Madeline E. Bassetti; Gustavo Dias; Daniel L. Chen; Alan Mortoni; Ritesh Das
• Keywords: Digitization; Relevance; e-participation

Abstract Civic engagement is increasingly becoming digital. The ubiquity of computing increases our technologically mediated interactions. Governments have instated various digitization efforts to harness these new facets virtual life. What remains be seen if citizen political opinion, which can inform the inception and effectiveness public policy, being accurately captured. Civicbase an open‐source online platform that supports application Quadratic Voting Survey for Research (QVSR), a novel survey method. In this paper, we explore QVSR as effective method eliciting policy preferences, optimal design prediction, Civicbase's functionalities technology stack, Personal AI, emerging domain, its relevance modeling individual preferences.