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What Can Interactive Visualization Do for Participatory Budgeting in Chicago?
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
|September 9, 2024
Summary
Interactive visualization can enhance participatory budgeting (PB) by helping governments communicate budget limits and empowering citizens to express diverse preferences. Addressing access and trust is key for effective civic technology implementation.
Area of Science:
- Civic Technology
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
- Urban Planning
Background:
- Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process for allocating municipal funds, with current voting often resembling traditional ballots.
- Interactive visualization has the potential to improve the PB process, but its application requires further investigation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore how interactive visualization can benefit participatory budgeting.
- To investigate the integration of graphical preference elicitation and voting statistics dashboards into PB tools.
Main Methods:
- A design probe-based interview study was conducted with 13 policy workers and academics.
- Qualitative analysis of interview data informed the findings.
Main Results:
- Visualization can help governments manage expectations regarding budget constraints.
- Visualization empowers constituents to articulate a broader range of preferences.
- Transparency through visualization necessitates mitigating access barriers and mistrust.
Conclusions:
- Interactive visualization offers significant benefits for participatory budgeting by enhancing communication and citizen engagement.
- Further research and development are needed to overcome challenges related to access and trust in civic technology.
- There is a call for increased collaboration between visualization professionals and political systems to build civic capacity.
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