Prytaneum is a novel webinar platform that is motivated by democratic theory. Its AI-powered features enable speakers to understand the audience's ideas and perspectives, at scale.Existing commercial webinar platforms disable audience input, preventing mutual learning between audience and speaker.
Here is a news article written by UCR, and a one-pager about Prytaneum from the California State Library. This paper explains the democratic theory that motivates Prytaneum.
1 - Intro: How Prytaneum Enables "Many-to-One" Communication
2 - How Prytaneum uses AI to Understand Audience Perspectives
These "explainer" videos (below) demo how to use Prytaneum. Each meeting has three roles: an organizer who creates the meeting (video 3), a facilitator who runs the meeting (video 4), and the audience who participates in the meeting (video 5).
3 - Explainer Video: How to Set up a Meeting
4 - Explainer Video: Moderator/Facilitator Workflow
5 - Explainer Video: Audience Participation Workflow
Here is a talk that Esterling gave about Prytaneum to the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics a the University of Oregon:
This paper explains the democratic theory that motivates Prytaneum
Prytaneum's Funders
Thanks very much to our funders...
- Democracy Fund
- National Science Foundation
- Institute of Education Sciences
- UCR OASIS Program
- UCR Information and Technology Services