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DebateGraph – Collaborative Wisdom in Action
1. ISSIP SIG Education & Research, 04 March 2015
DebateGraph – Collaborative Wisdom in Action
2. DebateGraph is…?
o DebateGraph.org is an award-winning cloud-based platform that enables
communities of any size to build and share dynamic interactive visualizations
of all the ideas, arguments, evidence, options and actions that anyone in the
community believes relevant to the issues under consideration, and to ensure
that all perspectives are represented transparently, fairly, and in full in a
meaningful, structured, and iterative dialogue.
3. Founding team…
Peter Baldwin
Former Australian Cabinet Minister
(Minister for Higher Education and
Employment and Minister for Social
Security), Programmer
David Price
Ph.D. Organizational Learning
(Cambridge University), Judge
Business School, Consultant & Public
Policy Advisor
4. Why this matters…
There are always
more smart people
outside government
than within it…
…but how do we engage the intelligence
distributed across our organizational boundaries,
disciplines and networks transparently and
effectively in support of iterative and collaborative
learning in action?
6. How? Focus on the underlying ideas…
(1) Gather the
set of ideas
distributed in the
community
David Cameron
Tony Abbott
Barack Obama
(2) Represent
each idea just
once
7. Think openly in simple, provisional building blocks…
Question?
Suggestion
Reason