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  • e-Deliberation™

    Feb 4 '13
    Author: 
    Jean-Daniel Cusin

    Definition

    e-Deliberation is an online enabling technology for collaborative decision and strategy making by the persons who have the expertise or are impacted by the focus of the e-Deliberation. It provides the thinking process and platform to tie it all together.

    Problems and Purpose

    e-Deliberation targets difficult, complex or wicked problems that have multiple stakeholders each with their varied interests, preoccupations and goals. The e-Deliberation thinking process yields a multifaceted resolution which tends toward full participant consent.

  • New Hampshire Public Conversations on School Redesign and Student-centered Learning: Pittsfield, NH

    Dec 5 '12
    Author: 
    Toni Lynn Lozzi

    Definition

    The Pittsfield School  District discovered they needed to re-vamp their school systems. With a grant from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation they started research into how they could transform their schools. The main focus was designing a community conversation to help uncover teh underlying issues and develop possible solutions. This is the beginning of what plans to be a long-term plan of change.

  • Citizen Conferences

    Nov 28 '12
    Author: 
    Stylianos Tsinaroglou

    Definition

    Citizen Conferences allow for citizens to deliberate and provide policy recommendations for a government entity.  The government entity can then use these recommendations to better meet the needs of its citizens.

    Participants

    The participants in citizen conferences are selected randomly to represent the diverse sets of opinions and demographics of a region (e.g. a State).  These participants are usually ordinary citizens, not stakeholders or professional lobbyists.

  • noddr market democracy

    Sep 28 '12
    Author: 
    Henri Nathanson

    Definition

    Continuious market oriented liberal political system.

    Problems and Purpose

    Efficiency of political decision making.

    History

    Started as a research project in 2005. Research ended Mai 2012. First prototypes online since March 2011. 

    Participant Selection

    The system is useful for constituted groups only, which follow a certain aim.

  • Representative Town Meeting

    Jul 30 '12
    Author: 
    Robert Richards

    Definition

    Representative Town Meeting is a method of participatory self-government applied to municipalities. It is common in New England in the United States, and has its origins in congregational self-government exercised within the English Independent or Congregationalist churches.

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    Deliberation, Decisions, and Public Interaction

     

    Influence, Outcomes, and Effects

     

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