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Archive of posts filed under the Critical Thinking category.

Mapping the Political Contours of Cyberspace

Posted by David on 28 October 2011, 4:05 pm

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 [...]

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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Debategraph honored as one of the AASL’s Best Websites for Teaching and Learning

Posted by David on 26 July 2010, 10:51 pm

Peter and I were delighted to discover last week that Debategraph has been named as one of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Best Websites for Teaching and Learning 2010. The award honors the top twenty-five Internet sites for enhancing learning and curriculum development and for fostering the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation and [...]

Filed under Argument map, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Critical Thinking, Debate Map, Debategraph, Education, Open Education, Visualisation. Tagged AAL, AASL, American Association of School Librarians, American Library Association, Award-winning, Classroom, Collaboration, Creative Commons, Creativity, Curriculum, Debate, Debategraph, Dialogue, Education, Educators, innovation, Maps, Mindmaps, Parents, Site Awards, Students, Visualization, Website

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CNN, Amanpour and Debategraph

Posted by David on 23 September 2009, 5:18 pm

As you may have spotted already, the collaboration between Amanpour and Debategraph launched on CNN last night, with Christiane’s new live global program featuring interviews with the Secretary General of Nato and the Prime Minister of Spain. If you missed lat night’s episode, it’s available via Podcast here. Debategraph’s working with Amanpour’s production team and viewers to [...]

Filed under Argument map, CNN Amanpour, Collaborative Democracy, Collective Intelligence, Critical Thinking, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Education, Media, Middle East, Politics, Public Policy, Tony Blair, United Nations, Visualisation, WAVE-Debate, Web 2.0. Tagged Afghanistan, Amanpour, Argument map, Christiane Amanpour, Climate Change, CNN, collaborative intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Conflict Resolution, Dan Meridor, Debate Map, Debategraph, Dialogue Map, Global politics, Media, Middle East, Nato, Saeb Erakat, Secretary General of Nato, Terje Roed-Larsen, Tony Blair, TV, WAVE-Debate

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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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Integrating Debategraph with SharePoint

Posted by David on 15 June 2009, 10:18 pm

When you are developing a web application one of the most delightful compliments anyone can pay you is to start building on your work. And when the person building is an expert in multiple fields including your own, your joy is complete. So a huge thank you today to Paul Culmsee and his colleagues at [...]

Filed under Argument map, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Critical Thinking, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Governance, Microsoft, SharePoint, Visualisation, Web 2.0. Tagged Blog, Debate Maps, Debategraph, Document Management, Governance, Issue Maps, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Products, Seven Sigma, SharePoint, SharePoint Governance, Visualization, Web application, Web part

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Debategraph in the Classroom

Posted by David on 13 March 2009, 3:52 am

When Peter and I first set out to create Debategraph, one of our fondest hopes was that the tool might help to enrich the collaborative and visual learning experience for students in schools and universities. So it has been a joy for us this semester to be experimenting with Debategraph in classroom with Dr Sharon [...]

Filed under Argument map, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Critical Thinking, Debategraph, Education, Politics, Public Policy, Visualisation, Web 2.0. Tagged Classroom, Collaboration, Debategraph, Education, elearning, innovative, learning, Map, Politics, poverty, Public Policy, university, Visualization, Web 2.0, welfare, WIU

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Visualizing Middle East Peace

Posted by David on 27 February 2009, 10:52 pm

The events in Israel and Gaza this year have prompted gloomy prognoses for the prospects for peace; a mood deepened by the mixed signals from the Israeli election and the latest developments with Iran. Lord Patten, writing for European Voice last month, struck a particularly bleak note: "However tough things looked in the past, I [...]

Filed under Argument map, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Critical Thinking, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Middle East, Politics, The Independent, United Nations, Visualisation, Web 2.0. Tagged Argument map, Brainstorming, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Dialogue, Gaza, Israel, Issue map, Middle East, Peace, Politics, Sensemaking, The Independent, Visualization

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Mapping the IQ2 Green Festival on Climate Change

Posted by David on 22 January 2009, 11:55 pm

This Sunday I’ll be live mapping the debates at the marvellous IQ2 Green Festival on Climate Change at the Royal Geographical Society in London. The festival, for which tickets are still available, has assembled a fascinating group of climate change speakers, including: Professor Mohan Munasinghe, Sir David King, Stanley Johnson, Professor Chris Rapley, Joan Ruddock, [...]

Filed under Argument map, Climate Change, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Critical Thinking, Debate Map, Debategraph, Deliberation, Essence, Global Warming, Politics, Public Policy, United Nations, Visualisation, Web 2.0. Tagged Armageddon, Asia, Biofuels, Bioperversity, Climate, Climate Change, Debate, ESSENCE 2009, Geoengineering, Global Warming, Green Festival, innovation, Intelligence Squared, IQ2, Politics, Public Policy, Renewables, Solar Power, Wind Power

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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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