The CCC Podcast

Voice to Vision: Increasing Trust and Transparency in Civic Decision-Making

Play Episode Pause Episode

1x

00:00 / 40:16

RSS Feed

Share

Link

Embed

<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="uscn5wgxyk"><a href="https://www.ccc.mit.edu/podcast/voice-to-vision/">Voice to Vision: Increasing Trust and Transparency in Civic Decision-Making</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.ccc.mit.edu/podcast/voice-to-vision/embed/#?secret=uscn5wgxyk" width="500" height="350" title="&#8220;Voice to Vision: Increasing Trust and Transparency in Civic Decision-Making&#8221; &#8212; MIT Center for Constructive Communication" data-secret="uscn5wgxyk" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://www.ccc.mit.edu/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script>

So often in local politics, citizens don’t feel heard and elected officials feel like they don’t have an easy way of hearing all their constituents’ voices. What do we do? Here at the lab, Maggie Hughes and Cassandra Overney figured we might be able to use AI to surface citizens’ needs to officials, and not […]

Read More…