William Gibson coined the term “cyberspace”, for his 1982 short story Burning Chrome to create a “a narrative engine, and a territory in which the narrative could take place”. Twenty years on, cyberspace is world’s narrative engine: and an uncharted territory to which the world is still coming to terms. Political, industrial, and civic leaders [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Barack Obama category.
Mapping the Political Contours of Cyberspace
Posted by David on 28 October 2011, 4:05 pm
Filed under Argument map, Barack Obama, Collaboration, Collaborative Democracy, Collective Intelligence, Computers, Conferences, Critical Thinking, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Deliberation, E-democracy, eGovernment, Governance, Government 2.0, Politics, The Independent, Visualisation.
Tagged Carl Bildt, Chatham House, Collective Intelligence, Cybercrime, Cyberspace, Debate, Debategraph, Deliberation, Dialogue, Foreign Office, Freedom of Expression, Helen Clark, Hillary Clinton, ICANN, International Chamber of Commerce, Internet, Jimmy Wales, LondonCyber, McKinsey, Neelie Kroes, Public Policy, Sanjay Pradhan, The Independent, Uri Rosenthal, Visualisation, Visualization, William Gibson, Wilton Park
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Collaborative Democracy in the White House
Posted by David on 23 June 2009, 12:09 am
If you have been following the White House’s groundbreaking Open Government Initiative over the past few weeks, you’ll be aware already that Debategraph has been mapping the proposals emerging from the Open Government Brainstorming sessions on Participation, Transparency and Collaboration. The Open Government Initiative moved into the third, and most significant, Drafting phase today—and we’re [...]
Filed under Barack Obama, Collaboration, Collaborative Democracy, Collective Intelligence, Consultation, Creative Commons, Critical Thinking, Debate Map, Debategraph, Debatemapper, Deliberation, E-democracy, eGovernment, Government 2.0, Open Government, Politics, Public Policy, Visualisation, Web 2.0, White House.
Tagged #eups20, Barack Obama, Beth Simone Noveck, Brainstorming, Collaboration, Collaborative Democracy, Collaborative writing, Debategraph, Gov20, Mind map, MixedInk, OGov, Open Gov, Open Government, Open Government Initiative, Participation, Transparency, United States, Visual Policy Mapping, Visualization, Vivek Kundra, White House, Whtie House, Wiki
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Dissecting the G-20 Communiqué
Posted by David on 2 April 2009, 9:25 pm
So what are we to make of the G20 Communiqué? As part of The Independent’s visual mapping of the London Summit, we have broken down the G20 communiqué into an interactive visual graph, that lets you comment on and rate each of the major points. …and we want to know what you think about the [...]
Filed under Argument map, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Consultation, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Downing Street, Government 2.0, Politics, Public Policy, The Independent, Visualisation, Web 2.0.
Tagged Debategraph, Financial Crisis, Fiscal Stimulus, G-20, G20, G20 Communiqué, Gordon Brown, IMF, LondonSummit2009, Merkel, Obama, Quantitative Easing, Sarkozy, The Independente, Visual Map, We20, World Bank
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Obama: Making Sense of the World?
Posted by David on 20 January 2009, 9:49 pm
And so the kaleidoscope turns, and we see the world anew. Or do we? Barack Obama’s inauguration today as the 44th President of the United States of America, marks the end of a remarkable personal and national journey. Arrival at such a destination is a cause for global celebration. But as with all great journeys [...]
Filed under Argument map, Barack Obama, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Deliberation, E-democracy, Governance, Government 2.0, Politics, Public Policy, The Independent, US Election, Visualisation, Web 2.0.
Tagged Argument map, Barack Obama, Change.gov, Collective Intelligence, Debate, Debategraph, Deliberation, Dialogue, Doug Engelbart, Inaug09, Inauguration, Issue map, Obama, Politics, Public Policy, Semantic web, Sensemaking, The Independent, Visualization, WhiteHouse.gov
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Mapping the Crisis in Gaza
Posted by David on 5 January 2009, 5:11 pm
As the What Should Obama Do Next? map began to address the unfolding events in Gaza last week, it was soon apparent that the immediate crisis and the wider Arab-Israeli conflict merited detailed consideration on a new map. To this end, Independent readers and the Debategraph community have begun to seed a map on the [...]
Filed under Argument map, Barack Obama, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Consultation, Creative Commons, Critical Thinking, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Education, Gaza, Israel, Middle East, Politics, Public Policy, The Independent, United Nations, Visualisation, Web 2.0.
Tagged Argument map, Critical Thinking, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Deliberation, Dialogue, Diplomacy, Gaza, Hamas, International Law, International Relations, Israel, Issue Mapping, Middle East, Politics, The Independent, United Nations, Wicked Problems
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Towards Live Government…
Posted by David on 11 December 2008, 12:13 am
The Independent’s mapping project, What Should Obama do Next? , is one of multiple initiatives appearing across the web linked to the Presidential inauguration of Barack Obama. As Jimmy observed in his blog on the Huffington Post, mastery of internet campaigning is not the same as delivering government via the web. So it has been [...]
Filed under Argument map, Barack Obama, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Consultation, Critical Thinking, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Deliberation, E-democracy, Government 2.0, Public Policy, The Independent, US Election, Visualisation, Web 2.0.
Tagged Argument map, Barack Obama, Change.gov, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Deliberation, Dialogue, Government 2.0, Guantanamo Bay, Issue map, January 20, Obama, Obama Inauguration, policy, Politics, President-Elect, Presidential inauguraion, The Independent, Visualization, Web 2.0
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Help us map the mind of the blogosphere
Posted by David on 1 December 2008, 10:13 pm
Cross-posted from: Independent Minds To celebrate the launch of The Independent Minds blogs, and as part of our Obama project with The Independent newspaper, we are launching a global experiment to map the mind of the blogosphere. Source: Matthew Hurst’s Blogosphere Meta-Core. Not all of it, obviously… not, for example, the part that’s thinking about [...]
Filed under Argument map, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Consultation, Critical Thinking, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Debatemapper, Deliberation, E-democracy, Global Warming, Governance, Government 2.0, Open Education, Public Policy, US Election, Visualisation, Web 2.0.
Tagged Afghanistan, Angelina Jolie, Argument map, Blogosphere, Britney Spears, Change.gov, Climate Change, Conversation Map, Criticial Thinking, CTO, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Deliberation, Dialogue, DMCA, Education Policy, Energy Policy, Envrionmental Policy, Global Financial Crisis, Guantanamo Bay, Health Policy, Hillary Clinton, Independent Minds, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Issue map, Live Journal, Mind map, Obama, Pakistan, Politics, Public Consultation, Public Policy, Solar Power, The Independent, TheIndyDebate, Wave power
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What should Obama do Next? The Independent series launches…
Posted by David on 17 November 2008, 9:33 pm
In the build up to Obama’s inauguration on 20th January 2009, The Independent and Debategraph have teamed up to give the world a chance to map and explore what Obama should do next. Click here for the map. Over the next 10 weeks, Independent readers and the Debategraph team will develop a series of interrelated [...]
Filed under Argument map, Barack Obama, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Consultation, Critical Thinking, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Deliberation, E-democracy, Government 2.0, Media, Progressive, Public Policy, US Election, Visualisation, Web 2.0.
Tagged America, Collective Intelligence, Debate Maps, Debategraph, eDemocracy, Inauguration, Issue Mapping, Obama, Politics, Public Policy, The Independent, Visualization
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Visualizing the American Choice
Posted by David on 4 November 2008, 7:49 pm
As Americans congregate at the polls and the world looks on in wonder, I thought that would be interesting to visualize the choice as seen through the eyes of the endorsement editorials of the Washington Post (which came out in favour of Obama) and the Washington Times (which came out in favour of John McCain)… …with [...]
Filed under Argument map, Barack Obama, Collective Intelligence, Critical Thinking, Debate Map, Debategraph, Deliberation, E-democracy, Education, John McCain, US Election, Visualisation.
Tagged Election, McCain, Obama, President, US
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Mapping Obama's Speech in Berlin
As announced on the Global Sensemaking blog, and building on Tim Bonnemann’s excellent Wordle and Mark Szpakowski’s suggestion, I produced a draft map of Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin yesterday, which you can view and explore here. The snapshot below displays the top layer of the map, and you are welcome to log-in and improve [...]