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Citizen Science for Sri-Sector Response: Participatory Citizen Sentiment Crowdsourcing Study in Geneva

The first of the conversation spaces that Edgelands opened in Geneva was an online Participatory Survey. For this, we are partnered with OPPI to provide a platform to hear from all the residents of Geneva about their perceptions and thoughts around the topic of (in)security in Geneva. We invited the residents of Geneva to fill out an emergent survey, and to leave their comments.

The results of this survey serves as one of the discussion basis for the political, academic, and other participatory discussions that Edgelands ‍hosted.

OPPi is an AI-powered engagement tool that leverages the power of emergent or wiki-surveys to help leaders in gathering the pulse of the people and facilitating high quality decision-making for complex societal issues. Soul Probe has been using wiki-survey tools like OPPi to bring the voices of the people and marginalised communities to decision-making tables in the public sector, parliament and private sector globally.

As a participatory survey, OPPi had great advantages: 

• It allowed participants to see how other residents of Geneva think about these topics. It showed the issues where like-minded people agree with them or where those with differing perspectives disagree or think differently from them.
• The survey evolved from the ground-up. This means that some of the comments and suggestions that the participants provide could become statements that everyone votes on.

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