Seminário Mensal Movimentos Sociais e Ação Política, "New Technologies for Deliberative Democracy at Scale: A Discourse-based Collective Intelligence Research and Applications perspective" com Anna De Liddo (Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University)

Anna De Liddo is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Director of Research at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University (UK). Her research focuses on the study of Collective Intelligence facilitated through new forms of Dialogue and Deliberation. She leads the Intelligent Deliberation Group (IDea: http://idea.kmi.open.ac.uk/) which investigates theories methods and tools accounting for the centrality of social interaction and discourse in public engagement, urban informatics, e-democracy and social innovation contexts. In the past 15 years Anna led the design and development of 8 different Collective Intelligence technologies (Cohere, The Evidence Hub, LiteMap, DebateHub, CIdashboard, Democratic Reflection, Democratic Replay, Bcause.app) which have been adopted by 17,000+ people worldwide. The significance of Anna’s research is seen in contexts such as health, higher education, public engagement and peacebuilding.