Github
Welcome to the ORBIS GitHub. Here you’ll find the tools, methods and resources developed to strengthen inclusive, transparent and scalable deliberative democracy. ORBIS connects citizens and institutions, enabling new models…
Read moreA curated collection of tools, reports, videos, and materials developed throughout the project to support democratic innovation and deliberative processes.
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Zenodo
Welcome to the official Zenodo space of ORBIS – Augmenting participation, co-creation, trust and transparency in Deliberative Democracy at all scales. Here you will find all openly accessible scientific outputs…
Read moreBCause: Human-AI collaboration to improve hybrid mapping and ideation in argumentation-grounded deliberation
Public deliberation, as in open discussion of issues of public concern, often suffers from scattered and shallow discourse, poor sensemaking, and a disconnect from actionable policy outcomes. This paper introduces…
Read moreCritical Deliberative Democracy Tech: Questions, Tensions, Norms and Directions for Working with Institutions, Communities and Technologies to Scale Up Democratic Innovations
Recent surveys show that citizens worldwide are increasingly worried about the socio-political conflicts emerging around the world and seek new ways to be engaged in democratic and inclusive discussions about…
Read moreTechnical and operational specifications and reference architecture
This deliverable presents the technical and operational specifications that underpin the overall architecture of the ORBIS platform. Building on extensive user-requirements elicitation across all project use cases, it outlines how…
Read moreResearch and innovation landscape, pilots definition and user requirements definition
This deliverable offers a comprehensive overview of the research and innovation landscape surrounding deliberative democracy and sets the conceptual foundations for the ORBIS project. It examines the historical evolution of…
Read moreThe ORBIS deliberation scaling mechanism
The ORBIS deliberation scaling mechanism Deliverable D3.1, The ORBIS Deliberation Scaling Mechanism, marks a key midterm milestone of the ORBIS project. It consolidates the project’s theoretical foundations, combining socio-technical transition…
Read moreA Hybrid Human-AI Approach for Argument Map Creation From Transcripts
This paper proposes a hybrid human–AI framework for creating argument maps from deliberation transcripts, aiming to better connect synchronous (live) and asynchronous (online) deliberation. Large Language Models (LLMs) are used…
Read moreHuman-AI collaboration to improve hybrid mapping and ideation in argumentation-grounded deliberation
Public deliberation, as in open discussion of issues of public concern, often suffers from scattered and shallow discourse, poor sensemaking, and a disconnect from actionable policy outcomes. This paper introduces…
Read moreIntegrating conflict prevention tools into deliberative democracy online platforms
This paper presents preliminary guidelines for integrating conflict-prevention tools into online deliberative democracy platforms, developed within the EU-funded ORBIS project. Building on research in argumentation and dispute mediation, the authors…
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