The Online Deliberation Platform is a video discussion platform for groups of 8-15 people.
The Stanford Platform for Online Deliberation is a collaboration between the Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy and **[Crowdsourced Democracy Team](https://voxpopuli.stanford.edu/)** (https://voxpopuli.stanford.edu/). The platform is designed based on the Deliberative Polling methodology to massively scale deliberation to allow unlimited number of participants to deliberate in small groups together simultaneously. Among its many features is an automated moderator that allows participants to form speaking queues, discuss in small groups with timed agendas, and allow for equitable participation. The platform is easy to use without any downloads, includes abuse prevention, and real-time analytics. The platform has been used in several languages (including Japanese, Chinese, French) and for national Deliberative Polling events in Chile, Canada, and the United States. The platform is designed to facilitate a structured and equitable conversation with better opportunity for participants to speak up.
| Funded by | Date | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence | — | — |
| Stanford Research Institute | — | — |
| David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation | — | — |
The platform is under active development, and has recently been successfully deployed in Canada, Chile, Hong Kong, Japan, and at Stanford with 15 parallel groups each. We have supported deliberations with up to 1250 unique participants. We have facilitated about 800 room group sessions and created 8,000 rooms for the same. There are 10 rooms and 185 unique participants on average per session. So far, we have hosted over 11,500 hours of group discussion with close to 50,000 unique participants. (Source) — 2024-12
Parent organization: Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab
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