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Peace in the Middle East
Help The Independent and the Debategraph community map and evaluate the contentious issues and potential paths to long-term, sustainable peace in the Middle East.

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Intellectual Property in the Digital Age
Mapping the debate around on Intellectual Property in the digital age as part of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution's Cyberweek 2009.

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The Future of Newspapers?
The global financial crisis has brought the newspaper industry's structural problems to the fore as it responds to the changing competitive environment in the digital era. What does the future hold for newspapers and for the journalism they enable and support?

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Changing sport for the better?
Tell The Independent what changes would you like to see in your sport?

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Africa: A Continent in Crisis
A debate map beginning to explore the issues that must be addressed (and how) to restore Africa's position (and that of its people) in the world.

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Abortion
Mapping the arguments on all sides of the abortion debate. Under what circumstances, if any, should abortion be permitted?

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Copenhagen: what's happening?
Help The Independent explore the current state of play in the build up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.

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Future of Corporate Learning?
A debate map exploring the business case for corporate learning based on the initial dialogue at the Canary Wharf workshop on 9th December 2008.

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To be or not to be...
A light-hearted map of Hamlet's existential dilemma (Act III, Scene I), to commemorate the 444th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth on 23 April 1564.

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Faith or Reason?
A debate map starting to explore questions arising from the contemplation of faith and reason.

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Open Source or Proprietary Software

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Power of Information Taskforce - Recommendations
The POIT was set up to advise and assist the UK government on delivering benefit to the public from new developments in digital media and the use of citizen- and state-generated information.

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What should Labour do next?
A collaboratively editable, interactive debate map for The Independent exploring what the Labour Party can do to improve its electoral prospects in the next General Election.

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National Security of the Republic of Kosovo

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Obama in Berlin
A debate map exploring the issues and positions addressed by Barack Obama in his speech in Berlin on 24th July 2008.

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Road Congestion
Analysing the issues around, and potential responses to, the projected increases in road congestion in the UK.

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Who Should Be the Next Philippine President?
A debate map starting to examine the Presidential elections in the Philippines in 2010, created by Llonard Yap.

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Michael Jackson Death Investigation
Exploring the issues and timeline around the death of Michael Jackson in June 2009 – from all perspectives.

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Open Government Data
30 Open Government advocates gathered in Sebastopol, Califfornia in December 2007 to develop these 8 fundamental principles of open government data.

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Scientific research on monkeys
One of the debates from the Open Up! series produced by the Democracy and Participation programme at nef (the new economics foundation) – and funded by the Wellcome Trust.

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Compression Thinking
Population growth squeezes all of us on a planet whose resources are finite. To not only survive, but improve quality of life, we must become much smarter using what we have. For practical, effective action, work organizations critical to Compression must greatly "compress" their learning cycles.

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Australia's Great Debate on Asylum Seekers and Refugees

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Which way are the UK newspapers voting and why?
What UK general election results are the national newspapers advocating - and why?

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Housing Policy in the UK
A debategraph beginning to explore the issues around housing policy in the UK; seeded with the arguments from Matthew Taylor's RSA blog post.

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Open Government
Redacted transparency proposals from the White House's Open Government Brainstorming on Transparency—drawn from the Office of Science & Technology Policy's blog.

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Dificultades en el uso de software libre en ONGs
En tu opinión, ¿por qué muchas organizaciones sociales no utilizan casi las herramientas de software libre?

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Public consultation on folic acid
The FSA public consultation solicited comments from the public at large and interest groups on the best way to increase the folic acid intake of women of childbearing age so as to reduce incidence of NTDs.

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Private vs. Public Health Care
Health care is a necessity for all people. In Europe and North America, citizens enjoy the highest quality of health care provision, with life expectancy reaching the late 70's. Is private or public funded health care preferable, and why?

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Drugs Policy in the UK
A debate map exploring and building on the detailed findings of the RSA Commission on Illegal Drugs, Communities and Public Policy's review of UK policy on the use and abuse of illegal drugs.

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Free our Bills
A map of the debate around mySociety's Free our Bills! campaign to encourage Parliament to publish its proposed new laws with semantic XML mark up.

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Education Policy in the US
A map exploring education policy in the US—starting with the effectiveness (or otherwise) of the standards-based education reforms.

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Manual de Comunicación 2.0
Todo lo que los profesionales de la comunicación 2.0 están compartiendo en Internet suman un manual vivo de la comunicación 2.0. ¡Añade tus aportaciones!

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Problem Solving
A map beginning to explore various ideas on how to improve problem solving, started by Thomas Teepe.

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Nuclear Politics
Since the Trinity test in New Mexico in 1945, Russia, the UK, France and China have joined the US as nuclear weapon states—with India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea also thought to possess a nuclear weapons capability. Help us map the issues around civil and military nuclear proliferation.

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Open Government Brainstorming
Redacted proposals from the White House's Open Government Brainstorming on Transparency, Participation and Collaboration led by OSTP's Open Government team.

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Responding to Iran's nuclear ambitions
Examining the current diplomatic crisis over Iran's pursuit of full nuclear fuel cycle technology, including the ability to enrich uranium.

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Can Computers Think?
A long term project with AI theorists and philosophers to bring Robert Horn's brilliant and pioneering debate map of 50 years of philosophical argument about the Turing Test and the possibility of computer thought up to date.

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Should Drugs be Legalised?
A map on global drugs policy issues; starting with the debate around the legalisation of drugs. Would drug legalisation benefit or harm society?

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Visualizing the Prime Ministerial Debates
The Independent is using Debategraph to map UK Prime Ministerial Debates in the build up to the election on 6th May 2010.

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The Future of Public Service Broadcasting in the UK
What role, if any, should public service broadcasting play in the UK in the 21st century?

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What should Obama do next?
A series of debate maps for The Independent exploring the question of what Obama and America should do next on the main policy issues facing the new administration after the inauguraton on 20 January 2009.

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Íslensk álitamál
Should Iceland join the European Community?

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The Role of Prison in Society
A debate map beginning to explore the issues around the role of prision in society in the 21st Century.

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The Legal Status of the War on Iraq
A map, in collaboration with Austhink Consulting, exploring the legal status of the Coalition's war on Iraq—starting with the arguments advanced by the 43 legal experts and the Liberal MP Greg Hunt in the Australian media on the eve of the war.

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New York Watershed
A Cornell Law School Water Law Clinic project exploring how the communities that supply New York City's water maintain proper water quality for a global city while surviving as living, working places.

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Collective intelligence
A debate map created by Eduoard Nau, starting to explore the spectrum of collective intelligence.

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Is the Institution of Marriage at Risk?
A debate map beginning to explore the instiution of marriage, it's benefits, the media portrayal of marriage, and the issures around same-sex marriages.

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Linked Data
Visualizing Linked Data (see LinkedData.org).

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techniques de démocratie
une chose est de favoriser le débat entre citoyens, une autre chose est de rendre officiellement contraignant le fruit de ce débat pour l'exercice du pouvoir "du peuple, par le peuple, et pour le peuple" ;-)

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Take Back the Tech! on Online Pornography
Part of the Take Back the Tech! campaign calling for everyone - especially women and girls - to take control of technology to end violence against women.

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Copenhagen Summit Map
Watch and help us map some of the COP15 sessions as they are being streamed live from the Bella Center in Copenhagen at: CopenhagenSummitMap.org.

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CL2M - Closed Loop Lifecycle Management

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1914-1945 : démocratie, guerres, totalitarismes

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The Draft Flood and Water Bill
A map by an interdisciplinary team at Durham University, UEA, and Oxford University starting to explore whether and how the draft flood and water bill can address current and future flooding in the UK.

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Millennium Development Goals
A map starting to explore the issues around the eight Millennium Development Goals.

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Prosperity without Growth
Exploring the relationship between prosperity and economic growth: and seeking to develop a new vision of the capability of humanity to flourish within the ecological limits of a finite planet.

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Lower Manhattan Project
The Lower Manhattan Project is assembling a multidisciplinary team to examine the impact of the current economic crises on energy, the environment, and security.

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Digital Publishing?
Map "publishing" -- A suggested alternative to traditional digital publishing in an era of Cloud-based services, the Semantic and Social Webs and touch-screen enabled, network-connected devices.

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Poverty and Welfare Politics and Policy in U.S.
This is a project of the students of POLS 275 at Western Illinois University. Faculty sponsor: Sharon Chanley, Ph.D.

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Opium Production in Afghanistan
A map exploring the issues around the production of Opium in Afghanistan, seeded from The Independent's Big Question

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The Joy of Christmas
A debate map to help parents answer the questions of any precocious children who might be erring dangerously on the naughty side of nice this Christmas (with thanks to Dr Larry Silverberg).

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Latvijas ekonomika un politika
Šis ir/bija mēģinājums radīt vizuāli pārredzamu un idejiski saprotamu katri par tiem cilvēkiem, institūcijām un procesiem, kas risinās Latvijā tik ļoti saistītās divās sfērās - ekonomikā un politikā.

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Is Human soul mortal or immortal?

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Les nouveaux programmes d'Histoire-Géo au collège
Ils seront mis en oeuvre à la rentrée 2009pour la 6e.

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Ktimatologio

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Drug Manufacturers and the Profit Motive
Big pharma has lost touch with the reason they exist - to find safe and effective ways of dealing with disease. Instead, we are sickeningly reminded with each ad they produce for their latest "breakthrough" drug how many side-effects and contraindications it has...

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Core Principles of Public Engagement
Seven recommendations reflecting the common beliefs and understandings of those working in the fields of public engagement, conflict resolution, and collaboration.

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CSC
Se faire une opinion sur le captage et stockage du carbone

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The Doug Engelbart Institute
Conceived by Douglas Engelbart as a vehicle for broad-based collaboration to explore how we can dramatically boost our ability to solve complex, urgent problems on a global scale collectively.

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Amanpour CNN
Christiane Amanpour's live global interview program ran on CNN from September 2009 to April 2010 with the aim of setting the agenda for a new global conversation. Debategraph worked with Amanpour to map this conversation online – producing a map of around 3,000 ideas.

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Simplified SharePoint Governance
A "living" SharePoint Governance map, developed by Australian SharePoint guru Paul Culmsee, of cleverworkarounds.com, to illustrate the free Seven Sigma Debategraph SharePoint web part.

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Climate Change
Mapping the causes, consequences and potential responses to climate change—in collaboration with, amongst others, The Independent, the Open University and the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.

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Sport and Genetic Enhancement
Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel's concerns about the application of genetic technology to sport, as expressed in his recent Open University Ethics Bites philosophy podcast.

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The Global Financial Crisis
A debate map starting to explore the immediate and long-term causes, consequences and potential responses to the emerging global financial crisis.

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Flash vs Ajax
Rich Internet Application developers are in a constant debate as to whether Flash or AJAX is a better and stronger approach to the solution.

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Klimaforum09 – People's Climate Summit
Klimaforum09 is the global civil society counterpart of the official UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 7–18 December 2009.

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Declaration on Public Services 2.0
In November 2009, an EU Minsterial Declaration will spell out EU eGovernment policy for the next three years. Help us co-create a bottom up open Public Services 2.0 declaration alongside it.

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Politics and the media
The debate arising from Tony Blair's final Our Nation's Future lecture as Prime Minister on the systemic problems between politics and the media in the 21st Century.

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Intelligent Design
A debate map starting to explore the issues, positions and arguments around the theory of Intelligent Design.

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The G-20 London Summit 2009
Help The Independent and the Debategraph community think through and visualize what the Group of Twenty (G-20) should do at the London Summit 2009 in April 2009.

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Momentum
Monitoring, Coordinating and Promoting the European Union eParticipation Projects and Initiatives.

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Whataboutery in Ireland
The Slugger O'Toole community is starting to chart the many forms and dimensions of ‘whataboutery’ in Northern Ireland.

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New York City Watershed Program Issues

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The Gulf Oil Spill Disaster
A map of links about and human response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that began April 20 2010.

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Contemporary Business Issues
A map exploring Contemporary Business Issues started by Jennifer Cleaver a student at Harper Adams University College.

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Bob Quick's Resignation
Bob Quick, Britain's head of counter-terrorism, resigned after inadvertantly exposing documents about an ongoing anti-terror operation to press photographers on his way into Downing Street.

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ID cards and databases
Mapping the debate around the proposed introduction of a biometric identity system in the UK. What is the government's rationale for the system? And does this rationale stand up to detailed scrutiny?

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Seasteading
A debate map exploring the issues around seasteading—i.e. building structures for permanent living on the ocean's surface.

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Parental Force and Children
A map exploring the debate around the use of force by parents against children (following the amendment of New Zealand law in 2007 to remove the legal defence of "reasonable force").

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Aquinas - Man's last end
A debate map setting out and starting to examine the argument presented in St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica Prima Secundae Partis, Question 1.

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Outputmanagement (OPA)

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The Sorrow of War - Bao Ninh
A map by students at Victoria Shanghai Academy in Hong Kong starting to explore the non-linear narrative of Bao Ninh's novel set in the Vietnam war.

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Telemedicina

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The Future of Royal Mail

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Twenty20 Cricket
Is the rapid emergence of Twenty20 cricket a positive development for the sport as a whole?

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U.S. Alternative Energy Industry?
A map created by Sean Costigan, of the GlobalEESE network of energy and environment experts, to help debate and share ideas and research about the future (with support from the US Departments of Energy and State).

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Prison Architecture
A map by Grace Pang exploring the controversy around the architecture of prisons.

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Predicting Market Price and Volatility
A debate graph, created by Andrew Willis, starting to explore the potential for accurate prediction and forecasting of market prices.

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¿Como mejoramos el Casco Histórico de Vitoria-Gasteiz?
¿Como mejoramos el Casco Histórico de Vitoria-Gasteiz?

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¿cómo organizo un Centro Universitario?
El objetivo que se pretende es definir unas líneas generales que deberían guiar la organización y gestión de un Centro Universitario.

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is rap music real music?

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Food Insecurity
Converging trends such as land conversion, irrigation failure, extreme weather conditions threaten food security. Crop production dropped while prices escalated.

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Realising the Potential of Social Media
Tim Davies's analysis of the factors that hold organisations back from realising the potential of social media to make them more efficient, participative, collaborative and accountable.

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The Crisis in Gaza
Help The Independent and Debategraph explore the causes of the crisis in Gaza, the legal status of the attacks, the ceasefire, and the potential ways forward.

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Debategraph Feedback
What should we improve next? Spotted a bug? What needs to be simpler or clearer? Thought of a feature that you would like to see? This is the place to let us know.

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