Computational Challenges in Scaling Democratic Deliberation

TL;DR

This paper discusses the computational challenges in developing digital democracy tools that support large-scale democratic deliberation, highlighting the need for novel algorithms and positioning these problems within current research.

Contribution

It offers a structured inventory of core functionalities and computational problems in scaling digital democracy software, connecting them with existing academic research.

Findings

Identifies key computational challenges in digital democracy at scale.

Proposes a structured framework for understanding these challenges.

Links problems to current research in computer science and AI.

Abstract

The paper provides an overview of core functionalities that digital democracy software needs to provide in order to support democratic deliberative processes at scale. Developing these functionalities poses novel computational challenges and requires algorithmic solutions to interesting mathematical problems. The aim of the paper is to break the first ground towards a structured inventory of such problems, and to position possible approaches to them within current academic research in computer science and artificial intelligence.