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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Digital democracy"”.
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Digital democracy in Malaysia : towards enhancing citizen participation
This thesis investigates the relevance of digital democracy in enhancing citizen participation in policy making within the Malaysian civil service. A qualitative research method is applied through an empirical, in-depth interview based, data collection exercise of a sample of civil servants and …
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An Empty Promise? Digital Democracy in the Smart City
The digital transformation affects every part of our societies and everyday lives, including the processes and structures of our democracies. On the one hand, information and communication technologies have the potential to lower the threshold for political communication and participation. On the …
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Digital Democracy: A Series of Reflections on Plato, Rousseau and Dewey and the Role that Technology Played in Constraining and Liberating their Imagination
… practice, made possible by an emerging digital information system the current trend in education tends to relinquish the long tradition of philosophy of education and embraces the cultivation of a reflective and productive citizenry through education. However, by looking at the ways in …
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Communicative freedom in a digital democracy: political and economic resistance to freedom of speech and the rise of digital activism in South Africa
… seeks to explore how our understanding of democracy is being transformed as we move from a physical, industrialised world into a digital, networked society. South Africa is trying to keep pace with technological advances while still clinging to archaic forms of governance. This project …
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Reducing Costs in Human Assisted Speech Transcription
… was needed. In response to this need, the Digital Democracy initiative was established at Cal Poly by the Honorable Sam Blakeslee, former California State Senator and founder of the Institute for Advanced Technology and Public Policy.</p> <p>The Digital Democracy initiative seeks to create …
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Strainer: State Transcript Rating for Informed News Entity Retrieval
… same time period, non-profit projects such as Digital Democracy sought to collect and store legislative bill and hearing information on behalf of the public. More recently, AI4Reporters, an offshoot of Digital Democracy, seeks to actively summarize interesting legislative data.</p> <p>This …
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Alternative Models of Connectivity: Reclaiming Networked Spaces
… virtual public sphere, and support the ideals of digital democracy.</p>
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Data-Driven Assessment of Digital Age Inclusion: Topic Modeling Seoul’s Digital Governance Platform to Evaluate Elderly Representation
… the intersection of population aging and digital civic government in Seoul, South Korea. As cities worldwide digitize and age simultaneously, understanding elderly citizens' representation in digital governance platforms becomes critical for inclusive urban governance. As a leader in both …
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Strategic Selection of Training Data for Domain-Specific Speech Recognition
… best choice of training data in our use case of Digital Democracy. We are able to improve speech recognition accuracy by 2.3% percent over the control with no custom model. However, choosing training utterances most specific to the use case is better when large enough volumes of such training …
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TONGS: TLDR; Opinion Network Guide System
… from government hearings obtained through Digital Democracy, challenging the accuracy of the TONGS library in an unknown topic.</p>
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A Study of Face Embedding in Face Recognition
… database.</p> <p>By using the face dataset from Digital Democracy, the thesis will explore the capability of this model by comparing it with the standard convolutional neural network based on pose variations and training set sizes. First, we compare different types of pose to see their effect on …
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SKEWER: Sentiment Knowledge Extraction with Entity Recognition
… transpires during legislative sessions.</p> <p>Digital Democracy, a project started by the Cal Poly Institute for Advanced Technology and Public Policy, is an online platform created to bring transparency to the California legislature. It features a searchable database of state legislative …
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Predicting Changes to Source Code
… CCP on different open source datasets (and the Digital Democracy dataset) by using several machine learning classifiers and pre-processing procedures. Our results show that we can achieve high precision on three out of four datasets. We conclude that accurate class change prediction is feasible, …
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Analysis and Usage of Natural Language Features in Success Prediction of Legislative Testimonies
… be used to promote civic engagement.</p> <p>The Digital Democracy database contains digital records for over 40,000 real<br />testimonies by non-legislator public persons presented at California Legislature<br />committee meetings 2015-2018, along with the speakers’ desired vote outcome<br />and …
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Predicting the Vote Using Legislative Speech
… voting members. In most forms of representative democracy, citizens can actively petition or lobby their representatives, and that often means understanding their intentions to vote for or against an issue of interest. In some U.S. state legislators, professional lobby groups and dedicated press …
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DiSH: Democracy in State Houses
… for a given bill using a custom model called Democracy2Vec. Third, we provided a case study focused on the 2015-2016 California State Legislator and had our results verified by a political expert. Our results show that our embeddings can explain relationships between legislator and how they …