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 Debate 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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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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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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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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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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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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