Large groups on-line deliberation
We now know that there are limitation on the size of a group that practice free deliberation. Therefore, if we want to reach the product of small groups to large number of participants, we may conduct the discussion in a small restricted group, and the products will be showen in larger groups. For instance, a group about deliberation may publish it's findings on a communal blog, and wider participants will talk about the posts in other groups in Facebook. It will be great, if people can mark the degree of agreement with each and every sentence or phrase, thou, indicating the over-all agreement with the produced post. A more effective way will be to produce wikimedia content through dialogue in the conversation pages, while letting the public see the results in the content pages. Also, here, if an agreement indicators can be set, it will help improve the content of the pages.
Tools for On Line Deliberation
- Vilfredo a tool for converging and creating of consensus documents.