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Delphi Mediation On-line System
Start date:2000-09-01
End date:2003-02-28
Project Acronym:DEMOS
Project status:Completed
Coordinator
| Organization name:TUHH TECHNOLOGIE GMBH | |
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Name:Jan |
TECHNIKBEWERTUNG UND -GESTALTUNG HARBURGER SCHLOSSSTRASSE 6-12 21079 HAMBURG DEUTSCHLAND Region:HAMBURG |
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Description
Objective:
The DEMOS (Delphi Mediation Online System) project will contribute to close the growing distance between European citizens and the decisions taken in Brussels and Strasbourg caused by the difference between regional, national and European interests. This aim will be sought with a new on-line integrated service supporting large-scale participation in all stages of the discussion process concerning European (and local/regional) political topics. The goal of the project is to develop and validate a new methodology to support democratic discussion and participation by developing a system, which allows online mediation and consensus forming with a high level of users. If successful the project will make a substantial breakthrough in on-line consultation where there currently exists no acceptable means to handle consensus and opinion extraction electronically.
OBJECTIVES
There are four major objectives to be achieved by the DEMOS project:
1. Development of a new participative methodology based on a sociological conflict resolution approach;
2. An innovative and low-cost system architecture composed of novel software components of a Java platform;
3. A running prototype installed and deployed at two trial sites and linked to selected reference sites to demonstrate the system's usability and validity;
4. A strategy for dissemination and exploitation, including the founding of a new company to commercialise DEMOS.
DESCRIPTION OF WORK
Three well-proven methods of social research and organisation development will be combined: the Delphi polls, the Survey technique, and the Mediation technique. This methodology is the basis for the design of an appropriate system architecture and for the implementation of a powerful socio-computational system. The methodology and the system will be validated by deploying a running prototype at two trial sites, the Cities of Bologna and Hamburg.
The "Zeno" system, a state-of-the-art software system that was developed within a previous ESPRIT project to support rational conflict resolution, will be used as the basis for the development of DEMOS. In contrast to Zeno, the DEMOS system architecture is designed to involve vast numbers of users into a DEMOS process and to allow uncomplicated and easy access also for unskilled users and to manage the process in a low-cost, efficient and goal directed way.
Usability validation is a central objective to ease wide acceptance and this will accompany the R&D work as a continuous process throughout the project. Real life testing will be carried out using the content of two actual political issues debated at the local/regional level (the Cities of Hamburg and Bologna), plus an issue debated at EU level. A user group involving interested organisations outside the consortium will be set up to ensure acceptance at the citizens level so that the DEMOS methodology, the platform and software modules in which it is embedded receive ready acceptance, thereby insuring a demand for software systems developed by the online IT vendors in the consortium.
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Project Details
Start date:2000-09-01
End date:2003-02-28
Duration:30 months
PJ_REF:IST-1999-20530
Project cost:4599884 EURO
Project Funding:2299940 EURO
Programme Acronym:
IST
Programme type:Fifth Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:On-line support to democratic processes
Contract type:Cost-sharing contracts
URL:http://www.demos.nexus.org/
Subject index:Information Processing, Information Systems, Social Aspects
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Other participants
| Organization name:FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V | |
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HANSASTRASSE 27C 80686 MUENCHEN DEUTSCHLAND Region:BAYERN OBERBAYERN München, Kreisfreie Stadt |
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| Organization name:IBERMATICA S.A. | |
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Name:Araceli |
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PASEO MIKELETEGI 5 20009 SAN SEBASTIAN ESPAÑA Region:NORESTE PAIS VASCO Guipuzcoa |
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| Organization name:FREI UND HANSESTADT HAMBURG | |
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Name:Hans |
FINANZBEHORDE HAMBURG RATHSHAUSMARKT 1 20095 HAMBURG DEUTSCHLAND Region:HAMBURG |
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| Organization name:USER INTERFACE DESIGN GMBH | |
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TEINACHER STRASSE 38 71634 LUDWIGSBURG DEUTSCHLAND Region:BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG STUTTGART Ludwigsburg |
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| Organization name:COMUNE DI BOLOGNA | |
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SETTORE INFORMAZIONE AL CITTADINO PIAZZA MAGGIORE 6 40121 BOLOGNA ITALIA Region:EMILIA-ROMAGNA Bologna |
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| Organization name:IPSOS-RSL LIMITED | |
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Name:Martin |
IPSOS-RSL KINGS HOUSE, KYMBERLEY ROAD HA1 1PT HARROW, MIDDLESEX UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH EAST (UK) GREATER LONDON |
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| Organization name:NEXUS-INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION | |
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Name:Alfredo |
NEXUS-INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION VIA F. D' OVIDIO 6 20131 MILANO ITALIA Region:LOMBARDIA |
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Record control number:52637
