Public Engagement Platform Using Trusted Location Scoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Governmental and other entities face challenges in engaging a broader audience in policy discussions due to fragmented communication tools, leading to disengagement and discouraged participation from residents with valuable ideas, particularly exacerbated by language barriers and accessibility issues.
Innovation Solution
A public engagement computing platform that uses a server to publish event agendas, determines trusted locations of users through GPS location verification, scores user contributions based on relevance and location, and prioritizes their visibility, facilitating meaningful engagement and feedback from residents within a geospatial boundary.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional communication tools are used for public engagement, then accessibility and language barriers are not addressed, but user disengagement and discouraged participation increase
Solution Approach 1:
The platform integrates multiple communication functions (text, audio, video, translation) into a single system, allowing users to interact through their preferred modality while automatically providing translation and accessibility features for all users regardless of language or ability
2Reliability
If GPS location verification is implemented to determine trusted locations, then user trust and engagement quality improve, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs location verification in advance by establishing trusted locations based on historical GPS data before live events begin. This preliminary verification creates a ready-to-use trust framework that simplifies real-time moderation without adding complex processing during critical engagement moments
3Productivity
If user communication is analyzed and scored based on relevance and location, then feedback quality and prioritization improve, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies full analysis and scoring only to communications from verified trusted locations, while applying simplified filtering to other communications. This partial application of rigorous processing maintains quality for high-value inputs without expending excessive resources on all user communications equally
4Reliability
If a geospatially constrained network of verified residents is created, then community engagement authenticity improves, but user base accessibility and inclusivity decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements different verification and access levels for different geographic zones, with trusted locations receiving enhanced verification and prioritized access while other areas maintain open participation. This localized quality differentiation allows authentic community engagement in specific zones while preserving broader accessibility
Data Source
AI summary
A method includes executing instructions associated with a public engagement computing platform on a server, publishing an agenda of a live event on the public engagement computing platform, and determining a set of trusted locations corresponding to a set of users of a number of client devices accessing the agenda. The method also includes analyzing communication pertinent to the agenda from at least a subset of the set of users, scoring at least the subset of the set of users based on the analyzed communication in accordance with the determined set of trusted locations and a relevance of the analyzed communication with respect to the agenda, and, in accordance with the scoring, determining a placement of the analyzed communication in an order of publicly viewable analyzed communication that is part of all analyzed communication pertinent to the agenda.