Archive of posts filed under the Debatemapper category.

Collaborative Democracy in the White House

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Tweet 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 …

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Help us map the mind of the blogosphere

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Tweet 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 …

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News Junkie, Cold Turkey

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Tweet Rachel Carson or Monty Python? Dead or merely resting?* While the blogosphere ponders the implications of Twitter’s latest Silent Spring, it has been nervous week for twitchers everywhere. While “Twitter’s down” is starting to develop the inane and comic familiarity of a catchphrase, “Amazon’s down” sounds like a global cataclysm. Still, there’s always the …

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

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Tweet 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 …

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Changing Climate: live blogging the Progressive Governance summit

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Tweet 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 …

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Debate Maps, Public Policy, Openness and Trust

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Tweet Paul Johnston wrote a characteristically thoughtful and constructive post last month on the need for public authorities to open up debates on public issues to genuine citizen engagement and influence. Prior to the post, Paul and William Heath catalysed a debate map on the government’s plans for a new Identity System in the UK; …

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From Debatemapper to the Debategraph…

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Tweet An exciting time for us, with long-planned changes now live on the site—and the culmination of our first developmental phase, which began last summer with the pilot projects for the UK Prime Minister’s Office and the Royal Society for Arts. The changes highlight both our social purpose—of building a global repository of public debate …

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Can computers think? Mapping the great debates

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Tweet We stand on the shoulders of giants… “…so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.” Robert Horn is one of …

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Rethinking Drugs Policy

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Tweet Following the publication of the report by the RSA Commission on Illegal Drugs, Communities and Public Policy earlier this year, the Debatemapper team worked with the RSA to create a debate map of the case made in the report for rethinking UK drugs policy. The map decomposes the report’s arguments into constituent elements, each …

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