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D-Agree is an artificial intelligence-facilitated online debate platform.[1] D-Agree is 'crowd sourcing focused', software platform for public utilities supported by the Nagoya Institute of Technology and Kyoto University.[2]

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D-Agree supports large-scale online human to human discourse with a focus to facilitate stakeholder's information-centric participation to reach consensus about urban planning and development decisions.[1][3]

D-Agree can create abstract of the discussion from the human point of views posted on the online D-Agree platform, the structure creates abstract based on IBIS (issues, ideas, pros, and cons), and also can process data from other social media platforms too.[1]

Deployment in Afghanistan

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In a 2022 report titled 'The Transition of Asian and Pacific Cities to a Sustainable Future: Accelerating Action for Sustainable Urbanization' released by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific took note of implementation of D-Agree - for urban planning in Afghanistan as an example of innovative approaches and progress in the region.[1] According to The Asahi Shimbun D-Agree was found to be specially helpful for online participation of Afghan women due to real life cultural constraints on them restricting their participation in their otherwise male dominated society.[4]

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  1. ^ a b c d The Transition of Asian and Pacific Cities to a Sustainable Future: Accelerating Action for Sustainable Urbanization (PDF) (Report). Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. 2022. p. 23. ..D-Agree, is a large-scale online debate support platform based on AI facilitation, where its AI-based tool extracts the discussion structure based on IBIS (issues, ideas, pros, and cons) from the human opinions posted on the D-Agree platform, as well as data collected from other social media.
  2. ^ The Transition of Asian and Pacific Cities to a Sustainable Future:Accelerating Action for Sustainable Urbanization (PDF) (Report). Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. 2022. p. 23. ..In 2019, the Nagoya Institute of Technology and Kyoto University, in partnership with the Kabul Municipality, developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered platform, called D-Agree, to support information-centric participation in urban planning and provide support for stakeholders to reach consensus. ..D-Agree, is a large-scale online debate support platform based on AI facilitation, where its AI-based tool extracts the discussion structure based on IBIS (issues, ideas, pros, and cons) from the human opinions posted on the D-Agree platform, as well as data collected from other social media.
  3. ^ Regional Commissions report on the progress on the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda (2019-2022) (PDF) (Report). United Nations. 2022. p. 19.
  4. ^ "「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：朝日新聞GLOBE＋". 朝日新聞GLOBE＋ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-07-13. English Translation: ".. "The participants can submit their opinion in English and many women were among participants. Kawahara said that one of aims to use D-Agree is to provide meaningful participation, particularly for women in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, due to culture issues, women are restricted from joining male-dominated face-to-face meetings. .." Japanese text: ".. ユーザーたちは英語ができ、女性の参加も多い。桑原社長は「アフガニスタンでは女性の権利が抑制されてきた過去があり、このシステムを使えば女性でも平等に意見が表明できることを試したかった」と話す。.."{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)


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D-Agree is an Artificial intelligence-facilitated online debate platform.[1] D-Agree developed at Nagoya Institute of Technology as an extension of COLLAGREE,[2] and further implementations were developed at Kyoto University, both Japanese public research universities, and supported by the Japan Science and Technology Agency under science funding of research projects.[3][4] COLLAGREE names comes from COLLective AGREEment,[2] and D-Agree name comes from the Discussion/Diversity/Democracy and -Agreement directories often given to cause of discussion.[5] In a 2022 report titled 'The Transition of Asian and Pacific Cities to a Sustainable Future: Accelerating Action for Sustainable Urbanization' released by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific took note of implementation of D-Agree - for urban planning in Afghanistan as an example of innovative approaches and progress in the region.[6]

Membership was initially limited to Nagoya Institute of Technology students and Nagoya city,[7] gradually expanding and to other Japanese cities such as Kasugai,[8] Shima, The Intellectual property of D-Agree is owned by Kyoto University. [citation needed]. In the 2022 edition of QS World University Rankings, Kyoto University was ranked 36th in the world, placing it as the 15th-best Asian university. Furthermore, D-Agree has been used in other countries such as Afghanistan.[6]

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The first version, COLLAGREE,[2] and initial version of D-Agree was supported under Japan Science and Technology Agency CREST project titled 'Large-scale Consensus Support Systems based on Agent Technologies' for a period of five years [Oct, 2015 - Mar, 2021]. [3] The further implementations of D-Agree will be supported under Japan Science and Technology Agency CREST project titled 'Hyperdemocracy: Implementation of Large-scale Consensus Making Platform based on Social Multiagent Systems' for a period of another five years [Dec, 2020 - Mar, 2026].[4] [9] COLLAGREE were deployed in Nagoya city.[7] D-Agree were deployed in Nagoya and other Japanese cities than Nagoya such as Kasugai and Shima. In 2019, D-Agree has been used in other countries such as Afghanistan. D-Agree was officially adopted by Kabul city as digital platform to facilitate town meeting to support participatory urban planning in Afghanistan. [6]

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It can be accessed from devices with Internet connectivity, such as personal computers, tablets and smartphones. After registering, users can create a profile revealing information about themselves. They can post text and photos on discussion which are created by administrators. Users can also see their ranking, can agree and disagree with each other with on D-Agree and receive notifications on the activities of their activities they follow. Currently, D-Agree operates in two natural languages, (1) English language, and (2) Japanese language. d-agree.com is platform URL where service provided and that the domain d-agree.com in use.[10] D-Agree employ conversational agent as facilitator which is a computer program to facilitate and extracts a discussion's structure.[1] The facilitation and extraction are based on Issue-based information system, which automatically facilitating and classifying all submitted opinion at real time.[11]

The facilitation performed by a conversational agent that supported to performs goal-driven actions according to predefined plans and policies to guide the discussion towards desired outcomes. The agent interacts directly with the users throughout the D-Agree's website, or external services such as Slack.[12] The agent as facilitator generates replies based on set of rules that dynamically combine dialogue utterances depending on the expected behaviour of the agent to mediate the submitted posts of user based on IBIS.[12] On the other hand, IBIS Structure (Issue, Idea, pros and cons) are extracted with Deep Learning technique called bidirectional Long short-term memory(Bi-LSTM).[11] There are two extraction; (1) link, (2) node. Extracting links means extracting the relationships amongst these nodes which constructed a tree-like discussion structure that consists of the nodes and their relationships in IBIS and employed Bi-LSTM for both of node extraction and link extraction.[11]

Deployment in Afghanistan

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The Asahi Shimbun , CNET

D-Agree has been used in Afghanistan since 2019.[13] [14] In a 2022 report released by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific took note of implementation of D-Agree - for urban planning in Afghanistan as an example of innovative approaches and progress in the region,[6] which also cited by a paper titled 'Regional Commissions report on the progress on the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda (2019-2022)' released by United Nations took note of implementation of D-Agree.[15] D-Agree has been used to facilitate discussion during the Fall of Kabul (2021) and the news has been covered by major news agencies such as The Asahi Shimbun [16] and CNET Japan.[17]

References

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  1. ^ a b Ito, Takayuki; Hadfi, Rafik; Suzuki, Shota (June 2022). "An agent that facilitates crowd discussion: a crowd discussion support system based on an automated facilitation agent". Group Decision and Negotiation. 31 (3): 621–647. doi:10.1007/s10726-021-09765-8.
  2. ^ a b c kawase, Satoshi; Ito, Takayuki; Otsuka, Takanobu; Sengoku, Akihisa; Shiramatsu, Shun; Matsuo, Tokuro; Oishi, Tetsuya; Fujita, Rieko; Fukuta, Naoki; Fujita, Katsuhide (August 2018). "Cyber-physical hybrid environment using a largescale discussion system enhances audiences' participation and satisfaction in the panel discussion". 101 (4): 847–855. doi:10.1587/transinf.2016IIP0013. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ a b Large-scale Consensus Support Systems based on Agent Technologies' for a period of five years [Oct, 2015 - Mar, 2021] (Report). Japan Science and Technology Agency. 2015.
  4. ^ a b Large-scale Consensus Support Systems based on Agent Technologies' for a period of five years [Dec, 2020 - Mar, 2026] (Report). Japan Science and Technology Agency. 2020.
  5. ^ Ito, Takayuki; Suzuki, Shota; Yamaguchi, Naoko; Nishida, Tomohiro; Hiraishi, Kentaro; Yoshino, Kai (2020-04-03). "D-Agree: Crowd Discussion Support System Based on Automated Facilitation Agent". Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 34 (09): 13614–13615. doi:10.1609/aaai.v34i09.7094. ISSN 2374-3468.
  6. ^ a b c d The Transition of Asian and Pacific Cities to a Sustainable Future:Accelerating Action for Sustainable Urbanization (PDF) (Report). Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. 2022. p. 20. ".. Examples of innovative approaches and progress in the region: .. The following insights from cities in the region provide valuable experience and learning related to digital and smart city solutions. Examples include Sihanoukville's inclusive smart city foundations in Cambodia; the implementation of the Iskandar Malaysia Urban Observatory; a people-centred approach via the SmartCity Guideline for Chengdu High-Tech Development Zone, China; D-Agree - An AI-based solution to support participatory urban planning in Afghanistan; and reference to the ASEAN Smart Cities Network (ASCN) and Singapore's updated 2021 Cybersecurity Strategy, which takes into account IoT developments. Quote:
  7. ^ a b "City of Nagoya collaboration with Collagree". City of Nagoya Municipality. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  8. ^ "Kasugai Municipality". Kasugai city. July 11, 2022. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  9. ^ Large-scale Consensus Support Systems based on Agent Technologies' for a period of five years [Dec, 2020 - Mar, 2026] (PDF) (Report). Japan Science and Technology Agency. 2020.
  10. ^ https://d-agree.com/site/en/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ^ a b c Suzuki, Shota; Yamaguchi, Naoka; Nishida, Tomohiro; Moustafa, Ahmad; Shibata, Diachi; Yoshino, Kai; Hiraishi, Kentaro; Ito, Takayuki (August 2019). Extraction of Online Discussion Structures for Automated Facilitation Agent. The 33th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. doi:10.11517/pjsai.JSAI2019.0_2F1E302.
  12. ^ a b Hadfi, Rafik; Haqbeen, Jawad; Sahab, Sofia; Ito, Takayuki (August 2021). "Argumentative conversational agents for online discussions". Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering. 30 (4): 450–464. doi:10.1007/s11518-021-5497-1. PMC 8143987. PMID 34054250.
  13. ^ 世の中の不平等をAIでなだらかに。 カブール陥落直前まで、市民の声を拾い続けた「D-Agree」とは (Report). Sotokoto Online. 2021.
  14. ^ 投稿した意見をAIが集約し、議論の合意形成を支援「D-Agree」提供開始 いつでも・どこでも・何人でも利用可能 (Report). Robot Start. 2021.
  15. ^ Regional Commissions report on the progress on the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda (2019-2022) (PDF) (Report). United Nations. 2022. p. 19.
  16. ^ 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 (Report). The Asahi Shinbun. 2021.
  17. ^ アフガニスタン市民の『いま、生の声』がここに。AIが意見集約・議論の合意形成を支援「D-Agree」でディスカッション展開 (Report). The CNet Japan. 2021.

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D-Agree[1]
Type of site
Collaborative software [2]
Available in2[1] languages
FoundedFebruary 4, 2018; 6 years ago (2018-02-04) in Japan
Area servedJapan, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Afghanistan
ParentKyoto University and AgreeBit Inc.[3]
URLd-agree.com
RegistrationRequired to login and do activities
LaunchedApril 1, 2018; 6 years ago (2018-04-01)
Current statusActive
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.

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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.

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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

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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:

  1. A conversational agent
  2. A proactive agent
  3. An NLP engine
  4. 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

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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

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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

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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)

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The future version will be towards more sophisticated AI-based facilitation to lead discussion at scale.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ a b "page of D-Agree". Homepage of D-Agree. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  2. ^ a b Haqbeen, Jawad; Sahab, Sofia; Ito, Takayuki; Rizzi, Paola (September 21, 2021). "Journal: Sustainability". Sustainability. 13 (10): 5453. doi:10.3390/su13105453.
  3. ^ "AgreeBit". AgreeBit. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Large-scale Consensus Support Systems based on Agent Technologies". JST. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  6. ^ "JST official homepage". JST. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  7. ^ "City of Nagoya collaboration with Collagree". City of Nagoya Municipality. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  8. ^ a b c "Kabul Municipality". KM. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021. in Afghanistan
  9. ^ Kunz, Werner; Rittel, Horst W. J.; Messrs, We; Dehlinger, H.; Mann, T.; Protzen, J. J. (September 21, 2021). "Issue based information system". working paper. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.134.1741. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  10. ^ 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. PMID 34054250. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  11. ^ a b "Nagoya Municipality". Nagoya city. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  12. ^ "Anonymizing all posts". D-agree notice. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  13. ^ "Kasugai Municipality". Kasugai city. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  14. ^ "「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.
  15. ^ "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.
  16. ^ "how to login on D-Agree". KM. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021. in Afghanistan
  17. ^ "Kabul city idea contest". KM. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021. in Afghanistan

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