The Participatory Democracy team at Stanford, led by Professor Ashish Goel from MS&E and Tanja Aitamurto from Stanford, UC Berkeley and University of Tampere, Finland, conducted a successful trial of their online participatory budgeting platform in Chicago’s 49th Ward. The team includes a Computer Science graduate student Sukolsak Sakshuwong from Stanford, recipient of a Brown Media Innovation Institute Magic Grant. This is the first time digital voting has been used in a participatory budgeting process in the United States. See coverage of the digital voting experiment in DNAinfo Chicago.
Participatory Democracy Trial
