Critical Thinking | Debategraph

Archive of posts filed under the Critical Thinking category.

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Introducing ESSENCE 2009…

Posted by David on 16 November 2008, 7:59 pm

ESSENCE is the world’s first global climate collective intelligence event—designed to bring together scientists, industrialists, campaigners and policy makers, and the emerging set of web-based sensemaking tools, to pool and deepen our understanding of the issues and options facing the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. The event, starts online in January [...]

Filed under Argument map, Climate Change, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Consultation, Critical Thinking, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Deliberation, E-democracy, Education, Global Warming, Public Policy, Visualisation, Web 2.0. Tagged Argument map, Climate Change, Collective Intelligence, Debate Map, Debategraph, Deliberation, Global Sensemaking, Global Warming, Politics, Public Consultation, Public Policy, Reason, Sensemaking, 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

Posted by David on 27 July 2008, 11:59 pm

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 [...]

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Debate Mapping Obama's VP choice…

Posted by David on 9 June 2008, 4:27 am

In the wonderful way of the web, a generous invitation from Seb Schmoller to guest blog an overview post about Debategraph, led to encouraging and deeply insightful feedback from David Weinberger about Debategraph. In a subsequent post, David called for transparent debate about Barack Obama’s choice of vice-presidential running mate, noting that: “Barack Obama has [...]

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ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling

Posted by David on 9 June 2008, 4:23 am

Thanks to David Osimo’s highly recommended blog on eGovernment 2.0, I was in Brussels at the end of last month to present our work-in-progress on Debategraph to the European Commission’s ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling Consultation Workshop Framework Programme VII. It was a fascinating day, exploring the Information Society Directorate’s long-term research agenda in [...]

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To be, or not to be, that is the debate map

Posted by David on 23 April 2008, 10:16 pm

A light-hearted debate map of Hamlet’s existential dilemma in Act III Scene I, to commemorate the 444th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth on 23 April 1564. Without further ado, here’s the soliloquy—the medium in which sensitive young men worked out their feelings pre-YouTube: “To be, or not to be, that is the question; Whether ’tis [...]

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Don’t think about thinking. It’s not on the test…

Posted by David on 12 April 2008, 3:32 pm

A double thank you to Dan Pink (and Mike Sporer) today, for introducing me to Tom Chapin’s guitar-based critique of trends in modern education policy: Obviously Tom’s closing observations about the importance of teaching of students how to think and engage in rational discourse strike a chord here. And our belief in the potential multiplier [...]

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Changing Climate: live blogging the Progressive Governance summit

Posted by David on 5 April 2008, 8:47 pm

Congratulations (and a relaxing Sunday) to Simon Dickson and the Downing Street digital team, for their phenomenal work on Policy Network’s Progressive Governance summit this morning. At short notice, they produced an impressive and engaging microsite built around a live video stream, live blogging and comments, and immediate access to the summit papers. It was [...]

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