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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 [...]

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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; [...]

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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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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 [...]

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Mapping the IQ2 Green Festival on Climate Change

Posted by David on 22 January 2009, 11:55 pm

This Sunday I’ll be live mapping the debates at the marvellous IQ2 Green Festival on Climate Change at the Royal Geographical Society in London. The festival, for which tickets are still available, has assembled a fascinating group of climate change speakers, including: Professor Mohan Munasinghe, Sir David King, Stanley Johnson, Professor Chris Rapley, Joan Ruddock, [...]

Filed under Argument map, Climate Change, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Critical Thinking, Debate Map, Debategraph, Deliberation, Essence, Global Warming, Politics, Public Policy, United Nations, Visualisation, Web 2.0. Tagged Armageddon, Asia, Biofuels, Bioperversity, Climate, Climate Change, Debate, ESSENCE 2009, Geoengineering, Global Warming, Green Festival, innovation, Intelligence Squared, IQ2, Politics, Public Policy, Renewables, Solar Power, Wind Power

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Introducing ESSENCE 2009…

Posted by David on 16 November 2008, 7:59 pm

ESSENCE is the world’s first global climate collective intelligence event—designed to bring together scientists, industrialists, campaigners and policy makers, and the emerging set of web-based sensemaking tools, to pool and deepen our understanding of the issues and options facing the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. The event, starts online in January [...]

Filed under Argument map, Climate Change, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Consultation, Critical Thinking, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Deliberation, E-democracy, Education, Global Warming, Public Policy, Visualisation, Web 2.0. Tagged Argument map, Climate Change, Collective Intelligence, Debate Map, Debategraph, Deliberation, Global Sensemaking, Global Warming, Politics, Public Consultation, Public Policy, Reason, Sensemaking, Visualization

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