Introduction to the MIT Deliberatorium

Your approach would be very helpful in highly structured discussions where problem solving is the objective. It would be great to know how the deliberatorium process fares in a public policy options development or consensus process. Also requires a fairly pliable group of participants to stick with the rules of the game. Also a transparent process may be threating in some circumstances where there are power struggles that manifest themselves as competing ideas/solutions.

cool

wow - this is great - to answer the previous comment based on just watching the presentation is there is typing of "topics" into issues, ideas, and arguments - there is much more structure present. Mark, you'd have to verify this but you definitely have my interest!

Mark,

great concept. I wonder about the real target user you had in mind when you designed this type of tool/application.

One concern: the real strong role of the moderator.

Great!

Mark - This is interesting, but you can explain how this is substantively different than tools like BaseCamp and topically-threaded social networking tools? I'm sure there's a lot of nuance but I couldn't quite grasp it from the video. This is a serious inquiry, so feel free to contact me by e-mail if you like.