Power, Collaboration, eParticipation

Power, eParticipation, discussion

Here  is some interesting work Joe Firestone and Henk Haders have done on the human political  CAS part of things that can be extended to the platform as a whole: 
  • A Meta-layer for Restoring Democracy and Open Society

Related ideas and initiatives pop into my mind, offered by Tom Atlee:

1. Citizen deliberative councils - face to face deliberations among randomly selected citizens ("mini-publics") to draw conclusions about solutions for public issues, especially recommendations for public policy. http://www.realitysandwich.com/empowering_public_wisdom

2. Crowdsourced funding for issue-related action = e.g., http://indiegogo.com

3. IVCS - Interactive Voter Choice System - http://tom-atlee.posterous.com/are-we-changing-the-game-yet

4. Social system pattern languages like http://reliableprosperity.net

5. http://WiserEarth.org = social change individuals, groups and organizations that might want to use (and get involved in designing) the social change space you are designing

6. Deliberapedia - an envisioned online space for "framing issues for deliberation" - a wikipedia for issues - crowdsourcing the articulation of clear argumentation for and against 3-5 top approaches to each issue (details in my forthcoming book; I can send you info on it if you like). http://www.realitysandwich.com/empowered_public_wisdom_rising_grassroots

7. The power of "concerns" as a way to frame what else needs to be addressed. See consensus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making and Dynamic Facilitation http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-wisdomcouncil.html#facilitation

Finally: So much of the problem in social issues is imbalance in social power. http://co-intelligence.org/CIPol_democSocPwrAnal.html What incentives exist for power-holding self-interested stakeholders to get pulled into the issue-addressing ecosystem you are designing?


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