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Interests: 1. aggregation of diluted voices, esp. by social media 2. traceability of inputs to policy/vision Sunset/suspend: a. digitally empowered discussion space (like MIT CCC) b. learning app (more/less)
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@TEDTalks @salkhanacademy @TEDchris Did TED Translators at #TED2026 discuss new roles of them? My asks: (1) leverage translators to allow different forms (2) publish faster (w/ a hybrid of the process auto guardrails) Only TED can make the change. So many places are left behind.
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@TEDTalks @salkhanacademy @TEDchris Would the TED Translators at TED2026 be going to discuss the new roles of them? My requests are to (1) leverage translators to allow different forms of interactions (2) publish faster These are my asks from 2023. Here are my 15 talks pending.
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My asks for the TED Conference! Would the TED Translators at TED2026 be going to discuss the new roles of them? I am also curious about how speakers are feeling about the slower turnouts of their talks.
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@TEDTalks @salkhanacademy @TEDchris Would the TED Translators at TED2026 be going to discuss the new roles of them? My requests are to (1) leverage translators to allow different forms of interactions (2) publish faster These are my asks from 2023. Here are my 15 talks pending.
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A Rise of Democratic Agency (draft) medium.com/p/a-rise-of-democ…

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『民主的主体性の台頭』をMedium で公開しました。 medium.com/p/民… (本記事は、8月に投稿した記事A Rise of Democratic Agencyを、Edgeブラウザで翻訳し、一部に訂正を加えたものです)

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ケアの6パック Nicky Case さんのイラストの日本語版
30 Nov 2025
Replying to @Aki_laid_back
6pack.care/img/overview-smal… ケアの6パック、Nicky Case さんのイラスト。 日本語版もあります。 訂正や改善が必要思えるところがあれば、ぜひ教えていただきたいです。
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Tristan Harris TED2025 talk. Here is Japanese <<unofficial subtitles>> of the TED talk, pending for review & approval. GitHub repo: github.com/akinorioyama/ted-… NO redistribution without written permission by TED Conference. Read the GitHub repo for the terms.
Here are some more unofficial subtitles of TED talks, pending for review & approval of the translation which I have worked on. You must NOT redistribute those subtitles without written permission by TED Conference as written in the quoted post. Read the GitHub repo for the terms.
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I've just submitted a session proposal for the Code for Japan Summit 2025, focusing on the transparency and accountability of digital democracy tools. It's an issue I care about deeply although my own project in this area has been in limbo and feels like anti-"demonstration" act.
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"Uncommon ground" library I wish!!🪄
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Polis (pol.is), can it be a tool, by design, that might accelerate populism and strengthen people's ideological beliefs?

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In every nuance of the voice, a life is revealed. It should be treated as such.
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Would "broad listening" keep the sufficient bits of information? Does the execution of broad listening still preserve nuances and context?
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A system would have a traceability by design to ensure the summarization or groupings of opinions will offer a means to track the path from the summary to the raw opinion. Occasionally, it is challenging to find out the source of the information ...
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We need a variation of Democratic Tool Benchmarks for broad listening practices or digital deliberation applications. Otherwise, quite deliberate deliberations and open polls are summarized into the same category in statistics that counts digital democratic tool experimentations.
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Contrary to the given easy-to-follow explanation and popular use cases in Japan, my interpretation of and hope for the #plurality-driven #broadlistening is that the tools offer their summarization power while preserving the nuances and context of the inputs. 🧵1 of 2
🎉新着記事🎉 『PLURALITY』買ったけどまだ読んでいない…という方へ初心者にも分かる解説を、サイボウズ・ラボ 西尾(@nishio)にお願いしました ✅ 結局、プルラリティってなに? ✅ ブロードリスニングとは? ✅ サイボウズの事例 📍いちばんやさしいプルラリティ解説 cybozushiki.cybozu.co.jp/art…
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Is it "listening" when my thoughts undergo lossy compression? How can the bandwidth be "broad" if the most important bits of information are lost along the way? So much compressed are our views that we might be going to be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. 🧵2 of 2
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Where can I look to learn more about what the team DeepGov offered? The Kusensel article is 59 days old requiring Full Access... I hope to see how all the components interplay and reserve nuances/context in sensemaking/broadlistening. Watched Zuizerland video,looked at gg23 repo.
29 Jun 2025
Replying to @dwddao
Leveraging Bhutan's NDI, we were able to build an automatic AI survey and sensemaking system that uses broadlistening techniques pioneered by @audreyt ... and then deployed a DeepGov AI politician trained with a Bhutanese-inspired Manifesto to provide Gitcoin reviews.
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A Rise of Democratic Agency in different forms by NotebookLM. 1. 6-minute video 2. 20-minute audio overview 3. 15-minute audio overview in Japanese 1 of 3, the 6-minute video (the color theme reminds of the one used by DemocracyNext)
A Rise of Democratic Agency (draft) medium.com/p/a-rise-of-democ…
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Another application of a "broad listening" tool. Will the execution ensure accountability by providing auditable reporting & decisions although the city has clearly set the question & expectations that it takes opinions only as references? How could our voices be made to be heard
/ 📢アイデア募集 みんなで描くデジタル広島🤖 \ 仕事や暮らしが デジタルでどうなってほしい? あなたのアイデアが AIで見える化され 未来につながります。 リンク先を確認して #広島デジタル をつけて 投稿してください📱 詳細はこちら(9/12〆)👇 pref.hiroshima.lg.jp//site/h…
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Would "broad listening" keep the sufficient bits of information? One of the examples of summarization efforts might have shown a potentially critical information loss in its lossy compression. It comes from a summary of PR#513 in one of the social experiments.
Would "broad listening" keep the sufficient bits of information? Does the execution of broad listening still preserve nuances and context?
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Polis (pol.is) 2.0? 👀 Would it have features to allow statement fragment votes, nuances/context clue provision for statements? It might be also great if it would offer the cross-links of statement.

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Have you seen 2.0? youtu.be/Q8kMOg4EPQA?t=662
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(Core problems presented and discussed) Narrative Summaries, of course, retains the original in citations while Polis summarizes the input. A nice image in the presentation at the point 19 min. in. Is it under any of the CC licenses? (auditable citations and grounding)
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Renovating democracy while protecting the critical pathways/nuances of our input. How can we steer it to both renovate and reserve? The voiced/unvoiced views should be recognized,not sacrificed in the accelerated process of summarization in the name of popularized broad listening
DEMOCRACY— We all know it has problems. But that doesn’t mean we should throw it away, as some nihilists on social media would have us believe. Democracy is worth renovating! That’s where THE RENOVATOR comes in. The Renovator is where we’ll discuss how to recreate democracy:
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