Debategraph - Politics Online Conference 2009

The Future of Public Debate Online – Politics Online, 20 April 2009

Debategraph – collaborative thinking

Link: Debategraph

Why this matters…

There are always more smart people outside government than within it…

…and engaging this intelligence transparently is efficient and effective and strengthens public trust.

But how do you make sense of this?

…and what if many speak at the same time?

Focus on the underlying ideas

(1) Gather the set of ideas distributed in the community

Gordon Brown Kevin Rudd

Barack Obama (2)

Represent each idea just once

Listen to everything the community has to offer

New Ideas Contributed

Contributors

Question?

Suggestion

Reason

Think openly in simple, provisional building blocks on which others can build too

In as much depth as you need

Enable everyone to build and rate maps — collaboratively, iteratively and comprehensively

Make maps easy to find, explore and extend. Embed around the web. Updates visible across all sites.

Link: The Independent

• UK Prime Minister’s Office

• Royal Society of Arts

• The Independent

• European Commission – WAVE public consultation on climate change in UK, Lithuania and France

• …and a growing community of universities, schools, NGOs, businesses, and individuals.

Debategraphers?

Links: Debategraph, The Independent

Dr David Price, Co-founder, Debategraph, email: david AT debategraph DOT org, http://debategraph.org, tel +44 (0) 20 8144 2860

Debategraph – thank you