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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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Mapping the Core Principles for Public Engagement

Posted by David on 22 June 2009, 8:59 pm

One of the many delights of April’s eDemocracyCamp in Washington, was the chance to meet Sandy Heierbacher, Director and Co-founder of the inspiring National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation. Among many virtues, Sandy was one of the main enablers of the Public Engagement Principles (PEP) Project—launched in response to Barack Obama’s Memorandum on Transparency and [...]

Filed under Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Debate Map, Debategraph, Deliberation, E-democracy, Education, eGovernment, Government 2.0, Visualisation, Web 2.0. Tagged Barack Obama, Debategraph, Deliberation, Dialogue, eDemocracyCamp, Good Practice, IAP2, NCDD, Open Government, Politics, Public Engagement, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, Society and Culture, Visualization, Washington

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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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Crowdsourcing Public Services 2.0

Posted by David on 15 June 2009, 5:06 pm

In November 2009, the EU Ministerial declaration on eGovernment will be published at the Malmo conference. Building on the Public Services 2.0 workshop in Brussels early this year, and at the initiative of David Osimo and Paul Johnston, we are teaming up other partners to crowdsource an Open Declaration on Public Services 2.0 to sit [...]

Filed under Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Consultation, Debate Map, Debategraph, E-democracy, eGovernment, European Commission, Government 2.0, Public Policy, Web 2.0. Tagged #eups20, Brainstorming, E-Government, Europe, European Commission, Ministerial eGovernment Meeting, Open Government, Paul Johnston, Public Services, White House

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Mapping the Power of Information Taskforce Report

Posted by David on 8 April 2009, 3:31 pm

As a follow up to the Public Services 2.0 workshop in Brussels last month, and in keeping with the collaborative ethos and intention of the event, Richard Stirling, one of the Cabinet Office secretaries to the Power of Information Taskforce, asked me to receate the Taskforce’s landmark report in Debategraph. The initial map (shown in [...]

Filed under Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Consultation, Debate Map, Debategraph, E-democracy, European Commission, Government 2.0, Politics, Public Policy, Visualisation, Web 2.0. Tagged #eups20, #poit, Collaboration, Debategraph, Map, Openness, Power of Information, Power of Information Taskforce, Public Policy, Public Services, Sunlight Foundation, Transparency, Visualization, Web 2.0

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Public Services 2.0

Posted by David on 8 April 2009, 2:54 pm

Thanks to David Osimo‘s pioneering energy and imagination (and the enabling support of FutureGov and Headshift), I was privileged to have the opportunity to outline some of the thinking behind Debategraph at the European Commission’s Public Services 2.0 workshop in Brussels last month.

Filed under Debategraph, Deliberation, E-democracy, European Commission, Government 2.0, Politics, Public Policy, Video, Visualisation, Web 2.0. Tagged #eups20, Civil Service 2.0, Collective Intelligence, Consultation, Debategraph, Deliberation, DG INFSO, eParticipation, EU, European Commission, Government 2.0, i2010, i2020, Public Policy, Public Services 2.0, Us Now, WAVE, Web 2.0

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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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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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