The Civil Debate Wall — popularly known as ‘The Wall’ — is a unique, innovative social media tool created by Local Projects (http://localprojects.net) for The Bob Graham Center for Public Service (http://bobgrahamcenter.ufl.edu/) and funded by a grant from the Knight Foundation. The Wall creates constructive dialogue by providing a physical social media tool that connects large touch screens, a texting system, and a website. These three synchronized components create a single, seamless interactive experience for disenfranchised, younger voters to actively engage in local, national and international issues.
The Civil Debate Wall Kiosk is a five-screen installation at the Bob Graham Center at the University of Gainesville Florida. It provides two basic modes. One is active mode, in which a touch interface guides users through the process of contributing their opinion to the system via SMS. The second is a passive mode, or the "wall saver", in which data visualizations summarizing popular opinion are presented across all five screens simultaneously. The screens share a content pool and back-end API with a web-based version of the wall.
Installation and other documentation is provided in the docs/ folder.
The Civil Debate Wall Kiosk software is released under the Gnu General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2) except for specific libraries which are released under their own licenses.