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The Future of Digital Publishing?

Posted by David on 16 February 2012, 10:17 pm

Last month’s news that NBC News is launching its first eBook publishing division, may have raised a smile of recognition from Paul Peacock, an ePublishing industry pioneer who announced his ebook publishing company in The New York Times Book Review in June 1991. Paul, a Debategraph Associate in New York, views Debategraph as an exemplar [...]

Filed under Collective Intelligence, Debategraph, Digital Publishing, Visualisation, Visualization. Tagged Debategraph, difograph, digital publishing, dynamic, ebook, epublishing, graph, hub, Information, publishing, Visualization

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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

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Helping Kids in Poverty Find Work

Posted by David on 14 October 2011, 11:34 am

Debategraph connected recently with Dan Bassill, founder and president of the Tutor/Mentor Institute LLC and the Tutor/Mentor Connection. Dan has been working with inner-city youth in Chicago for more than 36 years and also had a 17 year career in corporate advertising with the historic Montgomery Ward Corporation. Drawing on his advertising experience, Dan began [...]

Filed under Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Conferences, Debategraph, Education, Open Education, Progressive, Public Policy, Visualisation. Tagged Big Society, Careers, Chicago, Dan Bassill, Debategraph, Education, Innovatiion, Jobs, Kids, learning, Mentor, poverty, Schools, Tutor

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Controlling Persistent Infectious Diseases

Posted by David on 24 July 2011, 9:59 pm

The first in a quick series of posts to catch-up on some of our projects in 2011 so far. At the start of March 2011 I was privileged to map a 5-Day workshop on “Modelling and analysis of options for controlling persistent infectious diseases” at the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Discovery and Innovation; [...]

Filed under Argument map, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Debategraph, Education, Facilitation, Government 2.0, Open Government, Public Health, Public Policy, Visualisation. Tagged Banff Centre, BIRS, CDC, Cholera, Clostridium Difficle, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Debategraph, Dengue, Dialogue, Epidemiology, Facilitation, Government 2.0, HIV, Infectious Diseases, Influenza, Malaria, Mathematical Modelling, MRSA, NTDs, Open Government, Pertussis, PHAC, Public Health, Public Policy, Smallpox, Syphilis, TB, Visualization, West Nile, WHO

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Defrag 2010

Posted by David on 29 December 2010, 8:37 pm

Thanks to a Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneur Scholarship and Market Visit support from UKTI, I had the great pleasure of attending Defrag 2010 in Colorado last month and the opportunity to savour the vibrant start-up ecosystem in Boulder. Defrag is organized brilliantly by Eric and Kim Norlin, with a perfect blend of attention to the detail [...]

Filed under Collaboration, Conferences, Debategraph, Enterprise, Visualisation. Tagged Blur, Boulder, Cloud, Conference, Debategraph, Defrag, Defrag 2010, Enterprise, Entrepreneur, Eric Norlin, Glue, Kauffman Foundation, Paul Kedrosky, Startup, Stowe Boyd, UKTI, Visualization

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Debategraph honored as one of the AASL’s Best Websites for Teaching and Learning

Posted by David on 26 July 2010, 10:51 pm

Peter and I were delighted to discover last week that Debategraph has been named as one of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Best Websites for Teaching and Learning 2010. The award honors the top twenty-five Internet sites for enhancing learning and curriculum development and for fostering the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation and [...]

Filed under Argument map, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Critical Thinking, Debate Map, Debategraph, Education, Open Education, Visualisation. Tagged AAL, AASL, American Association of School Librarians, American Library Association, Award-winning, Classroom, Collaboration, Creative Commons, Creativity, Curriculum, Debate, Debategraph, Dialogue, Education, Educators, innovation, Maps, Mindmaps, Parents, Site Awards, Students, Visualization, Website

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Dissecting the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement

Posted by David on 15 May 2010, 7:30 pm

As part of The Independent’s visual mapping of the election and its aftermath, we have broken down the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement into an interactive visual graph that lets you comment on and rate each of the proposals. By surfacing their shared agenda for the next Parliament explicitly in this way, the Conservatives [...]

Filed under Collaboration, Debate Map, Debategraph, Downing Street, Government 2.0, Open Government, Politics, Public Policy, The Independent, Visualisation. Tagged Collaboration, Conservatives, Debategraph, Election, Gov20, Government, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, Media, Newspaper, Open Government, OpenGov, policy, Politics. Coalition, The Independent, UK, Visualization

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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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