Aarau's StadtIdee Participatory Budgeting
We utilised a proportional voting methods to ensure the fair representation of different interests and neighbourhoods.
Joshua C. Yang
Direct democracy, Citizen participation, Civil society, Digital democracy
Zurich , CH
I am a PhD researcher working on the "Digital Democracy" project in the Computational Social Science lab at ETH Zürich. I investigate how technology can support collective decision-making, ensure fairness in voting, and how AI influence modern democracy. I collaborated with the city of Aarau and designed their digital Participatory Budgeting program. I am also a member of vTaiwan, which utilises digital tools to collect citizens' opinions and find consensus.
DETAILS
QUICK FACTS
- Designing Digital Voting Systems for Citizens: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03501
- LLM Voting Human Choices and AI Collective Decision Making: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01766
WHAT I CAN OFFER
- Data Analysis
- Implementation of Methods of Equal Shares
- Taiwan's Civic Tech Experience
- Swiss's Direct Democracy Experience
- Understanding in LLM and AI
WHAT I'M INTERESTED IN
- AI and Democracy
- Citizen Participation
- Voting Theories
- Direct Democracy
- Digital Democracy
LATEST PROJECTS
- vTaiwan's Collaboration with OpenAIIn 2023, vTaiwan collaborated with Chatham House and the AI Objectives Institute on the OpenAI Democratic Inputs to AI project. This collaboration aimed to explore guiding principles for AI.
