JP4621941B2 - Information infrastructure system to support policy communication and political participation among various actors - Google Patents

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  The present invention relates to an information infrastructure system for supporting policy communication and political participation among various actors.

  Traditionally, policy communication has not been done in a well-structured manner. A function to transfer knowledge about policy of experts to third parties, a function to transfer policy positions of politicians and candidates running for elections to third parties, policy needs of companies, NPOs, campaigners, etc. Functions to communicate to third parties and functions to convey civic policy needs to third parties were provided in independent systems, but they support comprehensive policy communication that effectively combines these functions. The information infrastructure to do so has not been realized. For example, even if an actor makes a policy recommendation on the Internet, there is no system that is guaranteed to fulfill the function of accepting it and specifically connecting it to the next stage as a policy process. .

  Politicians and political party websites, newspaper company websites, NPOs and specialist websites, and e-mail magazines are not much different from conventional media in that the flow of information is unilateral. In some cases, active policy discussions may be held on mailing lists and newsgroups, etc., but this was a system where information was well organized, the conclusions made were asked by the public, and used for policy formation. No mechanism has been proposed. Some local governments provide an electronic conference room for discussing how the city government should be, but it is not a system that can function sufficiently to support the policy process. The e-government concept promoted by the government is merely to promote the digitization of administrative services, and there is no planned system to support voluntary political participation by citizens, experts and NPOs.

  As a system for supporting candidates in an election, a system for managing voter information in a database and making it available for election activities has been proposed (for example, Patent Document 1, Patent Document 2, Patent Document 3). . However, this functions in order for the candidate side to use the voter unilaterally, and it is unlikely that the needs of the voter side will be satisfied by this. Therefore, these systems do not realize productive communication that is beneficial to both parties.

  Considering the voter's position, techniques have been proposed to support communication between candidates running for elections and Internet users who are voters. For example, the system proposed in Patent Document 4 describes a mechanism by which voters can send opinions, questions, support messages, etc. to candidates. Although this system can meet some of the needs of voters, it does not provide the functions that voters need in an election. In elections, voters need to decide who to choose from among multiple candidates. Although the previous document suggests a method to streamline individual exchanges between candidates and voters, a sufficient mechanism is proposed for the mechanism for comparing information from multiple politicians. Not.

Some have also introduced a mechanism to conduct questionnaires for candidates running for elections. However, this is a service that conducts a questionnaire regarding all the candidates running for the conventional election and publishes the personal information of the candidates on the Internet, including the policy position of the individual, collected from each candidate as an answer to the questionnaire. In the system that provides the questionnaire, the organization that conducts the questionnaire itself constitutes the content of the question (for example, non-patent document 1, newspaper company questionnaire, etc.).
In this way, when the organization that conducts the questionnaire itself constitutes the content of the question, the question item focused on the part of the policy position of each candidate that the organizer wants to confirm based on its own purpose Therefore, it can function effectively in fulfilling the purpose of the organization. However, from the standpoint of not sharing the purpose with the specific organization that conducts the questionnaire, there is a need to confirm the candidate's policy position in terms of whether the issues to be objectively emphasized are well-balanced. It is not necessarily expected to satisfy the above.
In addition, there are many organizations and individuals who want to confirm the candidate's policy position on a specific issue, but each organization and individual conducts a questionnaire individually, and there are many costs such as manpower and funds. Each candidate also receives questionnaires from many organizations and individuals, and there are many cases in which the quality of the questions and the answer methods vary or duplicate contents are included. Cost. In addition, if the contents of questionnaires conducted by many organizations and individuals are provided individually via the Internet, it is necessary to understand the position of each candidate on various issues. However, it is required to search for information scattered in various Internet domains and browse through information with different quality and quantity of questions and presentation methods.

A system for recruiting the contents of questions to be submitted to candidates running for the election was also proposed, but among the many questions collected by the recruitment, the questions that are finally taken up in the questionnaire to be conducted for the candidates Since an appropriate procedure for determining the password is not clearly presented, a specific service has not been realized (Non-patent Document 2, Non-Patent Document 3, etc.).
In a system that provides a service that conducts questionnaires on policies for candidates running for elections and publishes personal information of candidates including their own policy positions collected on the Internet as answers to the questionnaires Depending on how questions are selected in the questionnaire, what aspects will be revealed in the candidate's policy position will vary greatly. Therefore, even when recruiting the contents of questions to be asked to candidates running for election from outside the organization in this way, when selecting the questions to be finally taken up in the questionnaire at the discretion of the questionnaire organizer, the selection There was a problem that the reliability of the questionnaire itself could not be guaranteed because the arbitrariness of the organizer and the fear of political thought could not be removed in the process.
JP 2000-353175 A JP 2001-209734 A JP 2001-331616 A JP2002-41718 http: // homepage3. nifty. com / fujisawa-chikyumura / anquate-detail-2. htm Hiroki Shima and Takuya Iwamura, “Application of Profiling Technology (1) Policy Communication Platform” “Quarterly Future Management 2001 Summer”, Fujita Institute for Future Management, July 1, 2001, p. 78-83 http: // www. seisaku. jp / programs / trial / shizuka / index. html

  As values and societies become more diverse and complex, actors in more positions have come to appeal for policy needs and make policy recommendations. However, there is no system that can surely accept the appeals of policy needs and policy recommendations that these various actors are making, and a system that will lead to the next stage as a policy process. However, policy needs appeals and policy recommendations are only meaningful if they are positioned within a single large policy process flow. The problem to be solved by the present invention is to support the political participation of each actor by accurately positioning the actions of various actors on an integrated policy communication system, and to ensure that the entire policy process functions efficiently. Is to realize.

The system to which the present invention is applied provides the following policy communication services that enable various actors to participate in politics efficiently according to their positions and roles. Resolve. Give citizens the opportunity to think about what kind of policy they want, and provide tools to choose politicians and tools to evaluate them. Give politicians the opportunity to communicate their policy positions and political activities to the public, and provide an environment in which politicians with sincerity, passion and foresight are legitimately evaluated by their policies and political activities . NPOs will appeal to their citizens, politicians, and experts about their awareness of problems, give them the opportunity to exercise their influence over politics, and provide new media for efficient signing and advocacy. Provide experts with the opportunity to use their knowledge to formulate policies in a free space that is not bound by the power structure. Companies will be given the opportunity to build a system that will lead to a healthy competitive environment and industrial revitalization by appealing to factors that impede efficient economic activities and issues of unfair systems. These actors, based on their motivation to participate in major policy process policy communication positioned in a stream of, by successfully engage the respective roles, integrating shed policy process, the above problems To solve .

  Claim 1 takes up a policy agenda that reflects the policy expertise and needs of experts, companies, NPOs, and activists, and the policy agenda that is highly interested by citizens. A policy communication system that guarantees neutrality is realized by using a mechanism that automatically performs processes that do not involve arbitrary selection of communication service providers.

  In claim 2, citizens make a list of policies that they support themselves while learning about the policies themselves, and based on that information, provide materials for selecting candidates to support, and conduct activities such as collecting related information Realize a mechanism that can help.

The policy communication system comprising the candidate policy information presenting means according to claim 1 further comprises means for performing a numerical calculation process based on a plurality of conditions set by the user. In this case, however, it is possible to provide a function that assists in obtaining necessary information more efficiently, for example, narrowing down candidate information by constituency.

The policy communication system comprising the candidate policy information presenting means according to any one of claims 1 to 2 further does not satisfy a predetermined condition among the information collected by the policy agenda recruiting means. It is provided with a filtering means for automatically excluding information, and can be provided with a reason for refusal notification means for notifying the policy agenda information provider of the reason for exclusion, but in this case, through the policy agenda soliciting means, To provide a function that automatically excludes information that does not match the purpose of the policy or malicious information, or to inform the policy agenda provider of the reason for exclusion in an easy-to-understand manner so that they can understand the purpose of the system. it can.

In addition, the policy communication system according to any one of claims 1 and 2 can be applied to a politician including an incumbent member in place of a candidate for running for an election. By applying it to politicians from various positions, including members of the law, it is possible to continuously check the behavior of politicians while constantly comparing with their own policy positions regardless of the time of election. Can be realized.

  In the present invention, the function of transmitting knowledge about the policy of an expert to a third party, the function of transmitting the policy position of a politician or a candidate running for an election to a third party, the policies of companies, NPOs, campaigners, etc. A policy that provides a communication service (1) related to a policy that combines two or more of the functions of transmitting the above needs to a third party and the functions of transmitting citizens' policy needs to a third party. By constructing the mechanism of the communication system (2), the problem of the present invention is solved.

Claim 1, as shown in FIG. 1, conducts a candidate policy questionnaire (4) in the policy communication system (2) that asks candidates who run for elections questions regarding policy positions. Candidate policy information input means (6) for inputting candidate policy information (5) including information on the person's policy position collected from each candidate as an answer to the candidate policy questionnaire (4) The candidate policy information recording means (7) for recording information input by the candidate policy information input means (6) and the information recorded in the candidate policy information recording means (7) are published on the Internet. It relates to a policy communication system (9) equipped with candidate policy information presentation means (8). The contents of the policy agenda (10) taken up as a question of the candidate policy questionnaire (4) are taken from outside the organization related to the policy communication service provider (3) that provides the policy communication service (1). By providing policy agenda recruiting means (11) widely recruited through the Internet and policy agenda information recording means (12) for recording information collected by the policy agenda recruiting means (11) in an information recording device Recruiting policy agendas from many actors including NPOs, NPOs, and activists. In addition, the policy agenda information (13) recorded in the policy agenda information recording means (12) is all or part of the policy agenda information to be presented to a large number of specified or unspecified Internet users through the Internet without modification or modification. Information presentation means (14), Internet user policy questionnaire implementation means (15) for conducting a questionnaire on the information presented by the policy agenda information presentation means (14), and Internet user policy questionnaire implementation means (15) By collecting the Internet user policy questionnaire information recording means (16) for recording the information collected by the above, information on which agenda the general public's interest is gathered is collected. Further, using the information recorded in the policy agenda information recording means (12) and the Internet user policy questionnaire information recording means (16), all or part of the contents of the candidate policy questionnaire (4) Policy agenda selection means (19) that is automatically determined by a computer program based on policy agenda selection rules (18) recorded in advance in the information recording device (17) held by the policy communication system (9) is provided. By using the collected policy information and the collected interest information as a material, the candidate policy questionnaire (4) is created by a process that does not involve arbitrary judgment or political thinking of the policy communication service provider (3). ) Can be selected as appropriate.

As shown in FIG. 2, claim 2 is a policy communication system (9) provided with candidate policy information presentation means (8) according to claim 1 in addition to policy matching means (23) and a number associated with it. This function is added. First, it supports digitally processable Internet user policies, including a list of one or more information from a list of policies that Internet users support as individuals, a list of issues of interest, and a list of their own opinions. Internet user policy support information input means (21) for inputting information (20), and Internet user policy support information recording means (22) for recording information input by the Internet user policy support information input means (21). ) Allows users to organize information on their policy position. Then, by comparing the information recorded in the Internet user policy support information recording means (22) with the information recorded in the candidate policy information recording means (7), the character collation provided on the Internet is verified. By providing the policy matching means (23) for calculating the calculation results that cannot be realized by the general search means used by the computer program , the policy position of the candidate and the policy position of the candidate are obtained. A mechanism that can be compared is realized. Further, the policy matching result display means (25) for displaying the result calculated by the policy matching means (23) and the information presented to the Internet user are manipulated using the result calculated by the policy matching means (23). By providing the presentation information operation means (26), it is possible to support information collection using the result of policy matching.

The policy communication system (9) provided with the candidate policy information presenting means (8) according to any one of claims 1 to 2, further comprising a numerical calculation process based on a plurality of conditions set by a user ( 24). In this case, for example, in response to a request from the Internet user, processing such as narrowing down the information of candidates to be displayed can be performed in the constituency in which the person is concerned. be able to.

The policy communication system (9) provided with the candidate policy information presenting means (8) according to any one of claims 1 to 2, further comprising, in advance, information out of the information collected by the policy agenda recruiting means (11). It is possible to provide a filtering means (27) for automatically excluding information that does not satisfy a given specific condition, thereby providing a function for automatically excluding information that does not match the purpose of the system or malicious information. Can be provided. Further, by providing the reason for rejection notifying means (28) for notifying the reason for exclusion to the provider of the policy agenda information (13), it is possible to try to make the system understand.

By providing the following means, it is possible to sort out the position of your own policy and collect various information by using the information presented by the authority that citizens trust themselves. The mechanism can be realized . First, out of policy information indicating a specific policy held in the policy information recording means (29), a third party who is not a policy communication service provider (3) providing the policy communication service (1) Create a third party support policy list (30) that includes one or more of the following: a list of policy information on policies that it supports, a list of policy information on policies that it opposes, and a list of policy information on policies that it particularly emphasizes Third-party support policy list creating means (31), and third-party support policy list recording means for recording the third-party support policy list (30) created by the third-party support policy list creating means (31) (32) makes it possible for the authority to organize its policy position and present it as a package. To achieve. Further, a third party support policy list publishing means (33) for publishing information recorded by the third party support policy list recording means (32) through the Internet is implemented so that this information can be made public. To do. Further, another third party (34) refers to the information of the third party support policy list (30), and one or more third party support is selected from the registered third party support policy list (30). The third party support policy list selection means (35) for selecting the policy list (30) and the third party support policy list (30) selected by the third party support policy list selection means (35) are recorded. By providing the recording means (37) after selecting the tripartite policy list, a function is provided that allows citizens to organize their policy positions while using the policy position indicated by the authority as a clue. Then, the third party support policy list utilizing policy matching means (36) for realizing the policy matching means (23) according to claim 2 using the information recorded in the third party support policy list selection recording means (37). ) And means for manipulating information presented to the third party (34) using the information recorded in the recording means (37) after selecting the third party support policy list, Provide a function that can collect information according to the policy position organized by the above procedure. For each item of the function for editing the information held in the recording means (37) after selection of the third party support policy list and the information held in the recording means (37) after selection of the third party support policy list By providing means for adding weights, a more flexible procedure can be made possible.

  By adding the following means to the policy communication system (2), information on which policies the voters want and what they are interested in is provided to politicians and other policy-making parties. Realize a system that can lead to situations where people's will is easily reflected. First, support for Internet users including one or more of a list of policy information on policies that any Internet user supports, a list of policy information on policies that are opposed, and a list of policy information on policies that are particularly important. Internet user support policy list input means (39) for inputting a policy list (38), and Internet user support policy list recording means (39) for recording information input by the Internet user support policy list input means (39). 40) makes it possible to show his / her policy position in detail on the Internet. Further, all or a part of the information recorded in the Internet user support policy list recording means (40) is obtained from the information input person in advance, and then the information input person and the policy communication service provider (3 By providing a third party other than) with means to provide anonymity or an information input person for a fee or free of charge, it is possible to convey the policy position to the policy parties.

  By providing the following means, voters will be able to efficiently acquire information according to the information on how they think about each policy, and experts, companies, NPOs, athletes, etc. want to communicate themselves It is possible to simultaneously realize a mechanism for transmitting information that is considered to be to interested voters. First, support for Internet users including one or more of a list of policy information on policies that any Internet user supports, a list of policy information on policies that are opposed, and a list of policy information on policies that are particularly important. Internet user support policy list input means (39) for inputting a policy list (38), and Internet user support policy list recording means (39) for recording information input by the Internet user support policy list input means (39). 40) makes it possible for voters to organize information on how they think about each policy. Further, based on the information recorded in the Internet user support policy list recording means (40), provided information operating means (41) for operating information provided to the information input person through the policy communication system (2). ), The above communication can be realized.

Furthermore, in the policy communication system according to any one of claims 1 and 2, by applying to a politician including an incumbent legislator instead of a candidate for running for an election, his / her own time is always maintained regardless of the time of election. Compared with the policy position, it is possible to realize a system that can continuously check the behavior of politicians.

The policy communication system described in the present invention provides various actors involved in the policy process with functions that match their roles and needs. This is a function designed to be useful in democratic societies assuming the roles expected of each actor.
Citizens have to think about what problems they have in their society and what kind of policy they want to pursue, and based on their judgment, they must choose politicians who represent their will. The policy communication system described in the present invention gives the opportunity to think about what policy he wants to support such citizens' decision making, and evaluates politicians and politicians to choose politicians based on it Provide a means for
Politicians must represent citizens' will and make important decisions about what policies to implement. In the process, politicians are required to make a commitment to the voters about what policies to promote and do their best to promote those policies. The policy communication system described in the present invention gives politicians the opportunity to communicate their policy position and political activities to the citizens, and politicians with sincerity, passion and foresight will have their policies and political activities. Provide an environment that is legitimately evaluated by.
NPOs / NGOs play an important role in solving government and market problems that cannot be solved. It is one of the important roles required of NPO / NGO to clarify social problems and formulate and promote policies to solve them. The policy communication system described in the present invention gives these NPOs / NGOs the opportunity to appeal their awareness of problems to citizens, politicians, and experts, and exercise their influence over politics. Provide new media for advocacy.
Experts are required to provide specialized knowledge in each field and contribute to solving problems. In particular, in order to overcome the harmful effects of bureaucracy, many private sector experts are required to intervene actively in actual policy discussions. The policy communication system described in the present invention provides these professionals with the opportunity to utilize their knowledge and technology for policy formation in a free space that is not bound by power structure.
Companies develop their own businesses under a system defined by law. What policies are implemented has a major impact on the success or failure of the business. The policy communication system described in the present invention offers companies the opportunity to appeal to the factors that hinder industrial revitalization and the problems of unfair systems and to build a system that leads to a healthy competitive environment and industrial revitalization. .
By using the procedures provided by the policy communication system described in the present invention, the various functions provided to these actors are positioned in a large policy process and developed into meaningful ones related to each other. It becomes possible to let you. Moreover, it is expected that various meaningful services other than those described in the present invention may be provided by using the policy communication described in the present invention as a basic infrastructure. In addition, it is expected that the industry related to policy communication can be developed by providing functions that meet the needs of each actor.

It is a block diagram which shows the basic composition of the policy communication system concerning this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the system which applied the policy matching means among the policy communication systems concerning this invention.

1 Policy communication service 2 Policy communication system 3 Policy communication service provider 4 Candidate policy questionnaire 5 Candidate policy information 6 Candidate policy information input means 7 Candidate policy information recording means 8 Candidate policy information presentation means 9 Policy communication system 10 with candidate policy information presentation means Policy agenda 11 taken up as a question of the candidate policy questionnaire 11 Policy agenda recruiting means 12 Policy agenda information recording means 13 Policy agenda recorded in policy agenda information recording means Information 14 Policy agenda information presentation means 15 Internet user policy questionnaire implementation means 16 Internet user policy questionnaire information recording means 17 Information recording device 18 Policy agenda selection rules 19 Policy agenda selection means 20 Internet user policy support Information 21 Internet user policy support information input means 22 Internet user policy support information recording means 23 Policy matching means 24 Numerical calculation processing 25 Policy matching result display means 26 Presented information operation means 27 Filtering means 28 Rejection reason notification means 29 Policy information Recording means 30 Third party support policy list 31 Third party support policy list creation means 32 Third party support policy list recording means 33 Third party support policy list disclosure means 34 Yet another third party 35 Third party support policy list Selection means 36 Third-party support policy list utilization policy matching means 37 Third-party support policy list post-selection recording means 38 Internet user support policy list 39 Internet user support policy list input means 40 Internet user support policy list recording means 41 Provided information operation means

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Function to transfer knowledge about the policy of experts to third parties, function to transfer policy positions of politicians and candidates running for elections to third parties, companies, NPOs
Providing policy-related communication services that combine two or more of the functions of communicating policy needs of activists, etc. to third parties, and the function of communicating citizens' policy needs to third parties In the policy communication system, a candidate policy questionnaire that asks questions about the policy position to candidates running for elections was conducted and collected from each candidate as an answer to the candidate policy questionnaire Candidate policy information input means for inputting candidate policy information including information on the person's policy position, candidate policy information recording means for recording information input by the candidate policy information input means, and candidates This is a policy communication system with candidate policy information presentation means that publishes information recorded in policy information recording means on the Internet. Policy agenda recruitment means for widely recruiting through the Internet from outside the organization related to the policy communication service provider providing the policy communication service Policy agenda information recording means for recording the information collected by the policy agenda solicitation means in an information recording device, and all or part of the policy agenda information recorded in the policy agenda information recording means, either directly or after modification. Policy agenda information presentation means presented to a large number of specified or unspecified Internet users via the Internet, Internet user policy questionnaire implementation means for conducting a questionnaire on the information presented by the policy agenda information presentation means, and the Internet usage Policy questionnaire An Internet user policy questionnaire information recording means for recording information collected by the application means, and the candidate policy questionnaire using the information recorded in the policy agenda information recording means and the Internet user policy questionnaire information recording means Provided with a policy agenda selection means for automatically determining all or part of the contents of the content by a computer program based on a policy agenda selection rule recorded in advance in an information recording device held by the policy communication system . A policy communication system comprising means for presenting candidate policy information according to claim 1, further comprising: a list of policies that the Internet user supports as an individual; a list of issues of interest; Of these, an Internet user policy support information input means for inputting digital user-processable Internet user policy support information including a list of one or more information, and information input by the Internet user policy support information input means Provided on the Internet by comparing the information recorded in the Internet user policy support information recording means, the information recorded in the Internet user policy support information recording means and the information recorded in the candidate policy information recording means Cannot be realized by general search means using character matching The calculation result with a policy matching means for calculating by a computer program, and Internet users using the result calculated by the policy matching result display means or該政measures matching means for displaying the results calculated by該政measures matching means Provided with one or more of presentation information operating means for manipulating information to be presented.

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