Tools for Dialogue and Deliberation on Wicked Problems

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What to do?

Hello everyone!

I am a student at Interaction Design, and I was planning to develop ideas for argument representation / debating tool as a master's

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Added by Guilhem Gantois on March 10, 2010 at 2:14pm — 3 Comments

As part of a much larger open source collective intelligence platform, an IBIS extension has been created for MediaWiki. The development website for it is found here. What you can navigate at this time starts from an index of conversations. Each conversation has its own home page with an explanation (motivation) for the conversation followed by any responses, which, typically, are issues raised. That format is similar to… Continue

Added by Jack Park on March 7, 2010 at 4:11pm — No Comments

Compendium concept demo: emergency response

The EPSRC-funded Advanced Knowledge Technologies Consortium ran 2000-06. The final demonstrator of all the technologies coming together centred on an emergency response scenario. Compendium served as the sensemaking hub around an aircraft crash on London, envisioning how a response coordination team might use Compendium overlaid on a GIS, to keep track of events and actions, in concert with a diverse set of AKT semantic web services.

I’ve just got ro… Continue

Added by Simon Buckingham Shum on February 9, 2010 at 8:59pm — No Comments

Contested Collective Intelligence

Anna De Liddo and I will be presenting this concept to the CI workshop at CSCW 2010 next month... De Liddo , A. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2010). Cohere: A Prototype for Contested Collective Intelligence. Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Organizations: Toward a Research Agenda, ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010), February 6-10, 2010, Savannah, Georgia, USA. Available as ePrint: http://oro.open.ac.uk/19554 Abs… Continue

Added by Simon Buckingham Shum on January 26, 2010 at 3:48pm — No Comments

Mozilla extension adds web annotation to Cohere

Some of you may be interested to play with the new release of our Mozilla extension for Cohere, which adds highlighting and annotation to Firefox/Flock, but with the addition of more reflective, sensemaking elements: * Clips are highlighted text fragments (and in future video hopefully) to provide more precise link anchors and to direct visual attention * margin notes are in fact what we call Ideas, first class objects in the… Continue

Added by Simon Buckingham Shum on January 17, 2010 at 5:42pm — No Comments

Tuning back in...

Folks I've been off on a rather different though connected planet for the last 12 months, seconded out of my usual role to direct an 'under the radar' project called SocialLearn here at Open U. GlobalSensemaking and ESSENCE got rather put on ice for me, so apols for not being around much or being unresponsive. We're now coming out from our 'cloaked' status and starting to blog about what we've been up to, which was, and contin… Continue

Added by Simon Buckingham Shum on January 17, 2010 at 5:29pm — No Comments

Motivation

NOTE: This Blog has been summarized on the Do Good Gauge at the following link.

Motivating Collaboration

I need someone to share the Do Good Gauge idea with. This random attempt to send email out with less than 10% response has to stop. Look at this motivation thread. Zero participation, other than myself.

Right now I would be happy with a second computer science t… Continue

Added by Scott Nesler on January 4, 2010 at 9:00pm — 4 Comments

A Cyber Soaring Humanity-or The rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization

This is my latest entry in the Polytopia project and the first for 2010: A Cyber Soaring Humanity - or The rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization if you have a moment pls read it, would love to hear your comments regards, W. Continue

Added by Wildcat on January 3, 2010 at 11:42am — 2 Comments

The Wicked Problem of Educating the Next Generation of Problem Solvers

I am a middle school teacher interested in challenging my students to think globally about the wicked problem of global climate change. I'd love to start a discussion about another wicked problem - how to educate for global awareness, systems thinking, and problem solving. My hypothesis is that the next few generations are critical for the survival of the human species and that the next generation of leaders, who are now in secondary school will be the ones who will have to lead the way. So it… Continue

Added by Gregory Louie on January 2, 2010 at 12:04am — 3 Comments

Bloomer: Open Source for Collective Intelligence

The Millennium Project just announced the Global Climate Change Situation Room. The project entails numerous activities, one of which is a collective intelligence platform prototype. I am calling that project Bloomer. The project includes a Federation Server--basi… Continue

Added by Jack Park on December 12, 2009 at 9:13pm — No Comments

Making Sense of Copenhagen?

During the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, The Independent newspaper is using Debategraph as a new kind of global citizen reporting tool to help people around the world make sense collectively of what's happening and not happening at the UN conference.

The process builds on The Independent’… Continue

Added by David Price on December 9, 2009 at 2:48pm — No Comments

ESSENCE and the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

During COP15 you can keep track of, and participate, in the various GSm ESSENCE sensemaking projects via the links below:

The MIT Climate Collaboratorium team The Open University Cohere COP15 team… Continue

Added by David Price on December 9, 2009 at 2:47pm — No Comments

The Mutual Benefit of our Premises

Global Sensemaking identifies a few individuals or projects in pursuit of solutions motivated by a premise. A more convergent forum where the average citizen can build an intelligent argument with a higher potential of democratic visibility, is the premise of the Do Good Gauge. Inside and outside the GSm there are passionate individuals building cases for their premise. Many premises require a large amount of resources to build or prove. The lack of support can halt the pursuit of a prem… Continue

Added by Scott Nesler on November 29, 2009 at 1:23pm — 2 Comments

One Wicked Problem, Multiple Tools

Hi folks, I'm interested in collaborating with tool providers here on this list to see what we can do with these 1100 raw opinions about American health care and health care reform. The opinions are available under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share Alike license. These opinions were collected offline using clipbo… Continue

Added by Lucas Cioffi on September 30, 2009 at 3:30pm — 3 Comments

Argument Tangency

I’ve come to the point where blogging is more an act of personal motivation than expectation of dialog or social refinement. My tunnel vision pursuit to describe, design, and develop a forum to bring democracy to an intelligent argument causes the interjection of tangent discussion into many blogs. I’m no longer going to apologize for this. I blame it on the forum. Blogs do not facilitate intelligent discussion. Heresy rules, the focus is short lived, and the problem is lost in the mix. You can… Continue

Added by Scott Nesler on August 12, 2009 at 2:06am — 4 Comments

SenseMaker Dialogs Registration Opens

Registration opens for SenseMaker Dialogs, a new speaker series focused on exploring the rapidly changing hybrid activity of SenseMaking in the 21st century. Event is Thursday, August 13, 2009 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (ET) in New York. Series Originators & Organizers: Humantific Facility Sponsor: Parsons The School of Design Strategies SPACE IS LIMITED. Go here to buy your tickets. http://sensemakerdialogs.eventbrite.com/ Continue

Added by GK VanPatter on August 6, 2009 at 6:54pm — 1 Comment

Argument Coaching

This thread has been summarized on the "Argument Coaching" page of the Do Good Gauge.
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Added by Scott Nesler on July 14, 2009 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Getting to the Root of Problem Solving.

It is difficult getting to the root of the problem when everyone's focus is on the fruit. There are few holy grail solutions to complex global issues. The best that can be offered is mutual understanding and a desire to provide the most benefit in lieu of the least harm. Rationally, I don't understand the benefit of a hierarchical argument structure where there is a root of a problem. A better visualization of a complex problem is a geodesic sphere, where each node represents a satisfactory so… Continue

Added by Scott Nesler on June 24, 2009 at 4:26pm — 20 Comments

DIALOGUE ACROSS DISCONNECT

GOOD DAY! I'm pleased to now be a part of GlobalSensemaking. For over 30 years I've largely worked where the rubber hits the road and people aren't communicating well or even living well, as in race relations and low-income neighborhoods, or where people are working to set little patches of wicked things right, as in ecological restoration sites, politics or dispute resolution. I've lived largely outside of web-based communication and dialogue networks as I worked in these mostly marginalized r… Continue

Added by Lynne Johnson on June 16, 2009 at 8:46pm — 2 Comments