Tooling

Q: Tooling: Tell us about your plan for the tooling or infrastructure you’ll use for your experiment. Will you use existing tools or build new tools?

If existing tools, please explain what features of those tools make them particularly compelling for your project. If new tools, please explain what features unavailable in existing tooling you plan to build, and what makes these features particularly compelling for your project.

Prior to COVID19, the Junior Program participants used to physically meet and hold a camp. When this became impossible due to COVID19, Scrapbox was used to solve the problem. Now the Unexplored Junior Program has 144 users active on Scrapbox, resulting in 2500+ pages.

Scrapbox allows synchronous communication in the form of chatting on the pages, and it is easy to refer to past discussions and asynchronous knowledge reuse. We believe this feature will be beneficial for this project.

The main places of interaction were compared with Decidim. For the first half of this project, we decided to first direct people to Slack and then to Scrapbox from the perspective that the hurdle for participation should be as low as possible.

Slack was used primarily as a means of announcement; Discord was also an option, as Slack is a chat system with a large number of users.

See the figure "Design of Peripherally Participatory Community" in the additional material.

The project will reach a large number of people by actively utilizing Twitter and Mastodon. It would be beneficial to have a systemic connection that goes beyond public relations.