ISSIP SIG Education & Research, 04 March 2015

DebateGraph – Collaborative Wisdom in Action

DebateGraph is…? o  DebateGraph.org is an award-winning cloud-based platform that enables

communities of any size to build and share dynamic interactive visualizations of all the ideas, arguments, evidence, options and actions that anyone in the community believes relevant to the issues under consideration, and to ensure that all perspectives are represented transparently, fairly, and in full in a meaningful, structured, and iterative dialogue.

Founding team…

Peter Baldwin Former Australian Cabinet Minister (Minister for Higher Education and Employment and Minister for Social Security), Programmer

David Price Ph.D. Organizational Learning (Cambridge University), Judge Business School, Consultant & Public Policy Advisor

Why this matters…

There are always more smart people outside government than within it…

…but how do we engage the intelligence distributed across our organizational boundaries, disciplines and networks transparently and effectively in support of iterative and collaborative learning in action?

Why this matters…

How? Focus on the underlying ideas…

(1) Gather the set of ideas distributed in the community

David Cameron Tony Abbott

Barack Obama (2) Represent each idea just once

Think openly in simple, provisional building blocks…

Question?

Suggestion

Reason

…that others can address and build upon directly

Listen to everything the community has to offer

New Ideas Contributed

Contributors

In as much depth and breadth as you need

Make the maps easy to find, explore and extend. Embed around the web. Updates visible across all sites.

…and in an expanding community of universities, schools, NGOs, businesses and individuals in over 100 countries.

Implement in multiple contexts…

…and keep iterating on the technology and social dynamics.

Link: DebateGraph

David Price, Co-founder, DebateGraph, email: david AT debategraph DOT org, http://debategraph.org, +44 (0) 20 8144 2860

@DebateGraph – thank you…