Governance | Debategraph

Archive of posts filed under the Governance 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

Comment

Mapping the Amsterdam Declaration

Posted by David on 25 May 2010, 2:50 pm

The World Congress on Information Technology 2010, which began in Amsterdam earlier today, brings together over 2,000 leading figures from industry, government, and academia from over 90 countries to address the global challenges of economic, environmental and social development. The speakers include: Paul Otellini(Intel), Stephen Elop (Microsoft), Pierre Hessler (Capgemini) , Michael Fries (Liberty Global), [...]

Filed under Climate Change, Collaboration, Collaborative Democracy, Collective Intelligence, Debategraph, E-democracy, eGovernment, European Commission, Global Warming, Governance, Government 2.0, Microsoft, Open Government, Politics, Public Policy, Visualisation. Tagged Amsterdam Declaration, Capgemini, change management, Club of Rome, economic growth, environment, EU, Gartner, globalisation, IBM, ICT, Information, Intel, Microsoft, Open Government, technology, WCIT, WCIT2010

Comment

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

Comment

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

Comment

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

3 Comments

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 [...]

Filed under Argument map, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Consultation, Critical Thinking, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Deliberation, E-democracy, Education, Global Warming, Governance, Government 2.0, Public Policy, Video, Visualisation, Web 2.0. Tagged Argument map, Barack Obama, Berlin, CommentPress, Eparticipatoin, Global Sensemaking, Government 2.0, Map, Obama, Public Consultation, Sensemaking, Transcript, Transparent, Video, Wordle

3 Comments

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 [...]

Filed under Argument map, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Consultation, Creative Commons, Critical Thinking, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Deliberation, E-democracy, European Commission, Governance, Government 2.0, Public Policy, Web 2.0. Tagged Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, eGovernance, eParticipation, European Commission, Government 2.0, Information Society, Policy Modelling, Web 2.0, Wikinomics

1 Comment

Government 2.0 – only connect…

Posted by David on 14 May 2008, 2:48 pm

“Only connect… Live in fragments no longer.” E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910). The lightweight, collaborative, multiway technologies emerging across the web, and the new patterns of social interaction associated with them, are about to transform the shape of government, our experience of government, and our participation in government. To misquote Clay Shirky: government that’s [...]

Filed under Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Debate, Deliberation, E-democracy, Governance, Government 2.0, Public Policy, Web 2.0. Tagged Cluetrain Manifesto, Collaboration, Connected Republic, E.M. Forster, eDemocracy, Government 2.0, Keynes, Only connect, Wikinomics

3 Comments

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 [...]

Filed under Argument map, Climate Change, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Creative Commons, Critical Thinking, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Debatemapper, Deliberation, Downing Street, E-democracy, Global Warming, Governance, Open Education, Progressive, Public Policy, Web 2.0. Tagged Argument map, Climate Change, Collective Intelligence, Creative Commons, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Downing Street, E-democracy, Global Warming, lightweight web, Progressive Governance, Simon Dickson

7 Comments

From Debatemapper to the Debategraph…

Posted by David on 11 March 2008, 12:08 am

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 that’s [...]

Filed under Argument map, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Creative Commons, Critical Thinking, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Debatemapper, Deliberation, E-democracy, Education, Governance, Open Education, Philosophy, Public Policy, Web 2.0. Tagged Argument map, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Creative Commons, Critical Thinking, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Debatemapper, Deliberation, E-democracy, Education, Open Education, Philosophy, Politics, Public Policy

1 Comment