Towards Platform Democracy: Policymaking Beyond Corporate CEOs and Partisan Pressure
Aviv Ovadya (Harvard Kennedy School)
Abstract: I’ll be talking about viable approaches to governing existing global platforms—building on some of the tools/methods discussed here (focusing primarily on the possibilities and implications of sortition-based approaches). I’ll give an overview of what led me to this, what this might look, what the benefits are, and why it might be important (including one particular motivation—self-determination around whether we should have ranking systems that help bridge divides).I’ve been working with large platforms to kickstart pilots of this approach for ‘hot potato issues’ (think political ads), and while I can’t share the details of that yet, in the Q&A, I can share about my experiences observing such processes in general.
game theoryhuman-computer interactionsocial and information networkslaw and economics
Audience: researchers in the topic
Series comments: The Metagovernance Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners. Topics of the seminar include, but are not limited to, computational tools for governance, governance incidents and case studies from online communities, topics in cryptoeconomics, and the design of digital constitutions.
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