miguelramosfdz / active-citizen

Active Citizen is an open source library, API and UI for activity streams and notifications using machine learning to recommend content to users.

Active Citizen Developer Release 1

29.2.2016

This is the first public developer release of Active Citizen. It is an open source library, API and UI for activity streams and notifications using machine learning to recommend content to users.

Technology Stack

Active Citizen is by most parts a Javascript library using Nodejs, Express, Passport, Sequelize (Postgres), Redis, Web Components, Polymer and Tensorflow (Google's AI library).

Current features

• Activity stream engine based on the W3C Activity Stream standards specification
• Notification engine with support for grouped notifications (fe. for "likes") and delayed notification (for hourly, daily, weekly or monthly emails)
• Basic Tensorflow AI integration for classifying post categories

Integration with Your Priorities

The next version of Your Priorities, our citizen participation app, features integration with Active Citizen and is currently the primary real life example of Active Citizen use. It is also open source and available here now https://github.com/rbjarnason/your-priorities-app

Work for next release

end of May 2016

• Integrate Tensorflow for recommending posts to users
• Integrate Tensorflow for recommending groups to users
• Add more notification types

Documentation

end of July 2016

We have a milestone for creating documentation, tutorials and examples in July.

Seed funding from EU's CHEST

Active Citizen is seed funded by EU's FP7 through the CHEST, collective enhanced environment for social tasks. http://www.chest-project.eu/

Join us!

This is an open source project and we invite you to participate, if you are interested :)

More information

Active Citizen User Centric Notifications Design
Active Citizen Development Vision
Citizens.is website

Contact: [email protected]