D-Agree
Type of site | Collaborative software [2] |
|---|---|
| Founded | February 4, 2018 in Japan |
| Area served | Japan, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Afghanistan |
| Parent | Kyoto University and AgreeBit Inc.[3] |
| Website | d-agree |
| Registration | Required to login and do activities |
| Launched | April 1, 2018 |
| Current status | Active |
Content license | Proprietary |
D-Agree is a crowd discussion support system based on Artificial intelligence facilitation developed at the Nagoya Institute of Technology and Kyoto University. D-Agree offers many discussion support features, including gathering, facilitating, extracting, and visualizing real-time discussion summaries organized by on-going town-meeting and group discussions.
History
D-Agree was founded in 2018 as the extended version of the former COLLAGREE[4] system. COLLAGREE was a discussion support system used for helping facilitating human facilitator to lead discussion in town planning. The name of the former system combines the letters "Coll" in collective and "Agree" in agreement, and the name of the D-Agree combines the letters "D" in discussion and "A" in agreement.
Both the former and current version is developed under first JST CREST national research grant, called "Innovating Agent-based Large-scale consensus Support System"[5] provided by the funding agency called Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)[6] The project was for five years (Oct/2015-Mar/2021). The intellectual property (IP) of platform owned by Kyoto University.
COLLAGREE has been used in collaboration with local governments like Japan[7] and D-Agree has been used in collaboration with local governments like Afghanistan[8] for social good.
D-Agree first played a role in the Kabul city town meeting in November 2019 and played a role in planning process in January 2020.[8]
The only difference of D-Agree with former system was server management and facilitation type. Where in COLLAGREE the server was hosted on local computer and D-Agree it was on cloud. Most importantly, the facilitation was done by humans in COLLAGREE while in D-Agree it is done by AI where software entities lead the facilitation.
Features
It is a platform that enables active exchange of opinions online by utilizing AI. It is often used for the purposes of "discussing and drawing conclusions" and "gathering opinions and conducting large-scale surveys". Online users can post text in a discussion space moderated by an AI. The main goal of the AI is to drive the discussions towards group consensus. The labeling of the posted text is performed according to the Issue-based information system (IBIS)[9] model. The discussion summarization is also done in real-time. D-Agree has an incentive mechanism where users can also see their ranking. The users can also agree and disagree with each other and receive notifications about the activities they follow.
System Architecture
D-Agree is composed of two modules: front-end and back-end architectures. The former is the system user interface (UI), which interacts with users through discussion websites or other social platform messaging services. The back-end hosts four agent modules:
- A conversational agent
- A proactive agent
- An NLP engine
- An argumentation engine
The top part of the picture in the Figure[10] shows the front-end, and the bottom part shows the back-end architectures of D-Agree system.
Real-world Experiment in collaboration with Governments
Firstly, D-Agree has been used in Japan,[11] but gradually the system expanded to other countries like municipal government of Kabul city Afghanistan.[8]
Protect Users with Taliban take control of Afghanistan
D-Agree announced on 15 August 2021 that it will make an effort to protect all community users with Taliban take control of Afghanistan by anonymizing all users ID.[12]
Media publication
Demonstration experiment with Nagoya City using COLLAGREE was published in city official page.[11] Demonstration experiment with Kasugai City using D-Agree was published in "Chunichi Shimbun".[13] An article about the real-experiment in Afghanistan using D-Agree was published in the Asahi Shimbun GLOBE +, a web media that conveys the present of the world.[14] An interview article with representative Kuwahara was posted on the startup & tech site "Techable" discussing about D-Agree activities.[15]
A demonstration video posted on Kabul city municipality on how to login on D-Agree system for idea contest project.[16] An article about the efforts related first internet based crowdsourcing idea contest was published in Kabul city homepage[17]
D-Agree's Next Version (X-Agree)
The future version will be towards more sophisticated AI-based facilitation to lead discussion at scale.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "page of D-Agree". Homepage of D-Agree. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Haqbeen, Jawad; Sahab, Sofia; Ito, Takayuki; Rizzi, Paola (September 21, 2021). "Journal: Sustainability". Sustainability. 13 (10): 5453. doi:10.3390/su13105453.
- ↑ "AgreeBit". AgreeBit. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
- ↑ "Cyber-Physical Hybrid Environment Using a Largescale Discussion System Enhances Audiences' Participation and Satisfaction in the Panel Discussion". IEICE Transection. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
- ↑ "Large-scale Consensus Support Systems based on Agent Technologies". JST. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
- ↑ "JST official homepage". JST. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
- ↑ "City of Nagoya collaboration with Collagree". City of Nagoya Municipality. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Kabul Municipality". KM. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021. in Afghanistan
- ↑ Kunz, Werner; Rittel, Horst W. J.; Messrs, We; Dehlinger, H.; Mann, T.; Protzen, J. J. (September 21, 2021). "Issue based information system". CiteSeerX 10.1.1.134.1741.
- ↑ Hadfi, Rafik; Haqbeen, Jawad; Sahab, Sofia; Ito, Takayuki (September 21, 2021). "Argumentative Conversational Agents for Online Discussions" (PDF). Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering. 30 (4): 450–464. doi:10.1007/s11518-021-5497-1. PMC 8143987 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 34054250 Check|pmid=value (help). Retrieved September 21, 2021. - ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Nagoya Municipality". Nagoya city. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
- ↑ "Anonymizing all posts". D-agree notice. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
- ↑ "Kasugai Municipality". Kasugai city. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
- ↑ "「女性の絵消した」「タリバンを拒絶」...アフガニスタン人の本音 日本のIT会社が公開". Asahi news. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
- ↑ "世界唯一のAIによる議論プラットフォーム「D-Agree」。AGREEBIT代表桑原氏にその革新性について聞いてきた". Techable. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
- ↑ "how to login on D-Agree". KM. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021. in Afghanistan
- ↑ "Kabul city idea contest". KM. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021. in Afghanistan
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