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In this Part II of the present Chapter, we describe the stages (or phases), mechanisms and procedures of a MOD process, in accordance with the requirements set forth in Section “MOD Paradigm Versus Deliberative Polling” of Part I. Our task is to provide an MOD blueprint for an ICT-based MOD platform that almost immediately lends itself to system implementation. As in Part I, we use the neologism deliberandum to refer to a given instance of mass online deliberation, that is, to a process of deliberating online within a given community, on a given issue, and within a given period of time.
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The latter consists in sending a passcode to a mobile phone registered with the user; entering this passcode is requested for validating authenticity of the contribution. Such algorithms may emulate mobile phone-based digital signatures, see http://www.buergerkarte.at/funktionsweise-handy.html.
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This will be our main option in the subsequent presentation. Depending on a given context, other options are also possible, e.g. registration of every user in the system under his/her real name, the system either showing the real name to all other users, or (another option) replacing it with a pseudonym.
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The idea of applying the blind peer review method to participants’ contributions in a democratic online deliberation seems to have been first proposed by Stodolsky (2002).
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Velikanov, C., Prosser, A. (2017). Mass Online Deliberation in Participatory Policy-Making—Part II. In: Paulin, A., Anthopoulos, L., Reddick, C. (eds) Beyond Bureaucracy. Public Administration and Information Technology, vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54142-6_14
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