[p2p-research] interested in systemic decision-making

[Josef Davies-Coates]

I'm very interested in this stuff.

A while back I wrote this round-up of similar decision making stuff:
http://www.technologyandsocialaction.org/node/190

I've also got this tag, although lots missing:
http://delicious.com/uniteddiversity/decision_making

And I enjoyed using http://uservoice.com recently :)

I've also recently contacted http://www.cofundos.org/ about them open
sourcing their work - they're already thinking about it but have yet
to package up and comment their code to make it useful for others.

Josef.


2008/10/15 Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>:
> see below, in case of interest, please write to Paul at
> paulcoddmacdonald at googlemail.com
>
>
> text:
>
> Michel,
> Here is a link to the open source democracy project I mentioned. I am a
> founding committee member and can act as a liaison for you with the project,
> or introduce you to the rest of the committee if you want to get more
> closely involved.
> http://www.metagovernment.org
>
> Here are some other related projects we have come across over the last 6
> months or so.
> http://www.metagovernment.org/wiki/Related_projects
>
> My particular pet interest as I said in the Q&A after your presentation is
> 2020people.com. In my view it provides a missing piece in the jigsaw that
> completes the democratic picture. The project aims to evolve the process of
> innovation itself. I feel that decision making is often of a very poor
> quality even when all participants have the best of intentions and no matter
> how inclusive the process I am not confident that organisations such as
> government, NGOs and businesses identify, define and analyse problems
> competently, work to understand causes, effects and the root of the issues,
> linkages to other problems and positive and negative feedback loops. In my
> view without these understandings and without an appreciation for what they
> mean in terms of how the problem manifests and where are the leverage
> points, any interventions to solve the problem may in fact have the opposite
> effect, or at best simply shift the problem elsewhere. It also means
> organisations often (or usually) work on peripheral issues, ignoring root
> causes and far greater opportunities to innovate. These are amply evidenced
> by the situation we are in as a civilisation.
>
> My thesis is that no matter if we do "P2P everything", although a massive
> evolution in its own right, and a quantum leap forward, this will still be
> insufficient for us to save the human species for tremendous suffering. I
> also believe that we can be spared from the worst of the negative effects of
> our current mistakes and the resulting suffering, if only we could make
> better more systemic decisions.
>
> So that is why 2020people exists. There are a few dozen people involved at
> present, maybe a dozen occasional collaborators and myself. Unfortunately no
> programmers yet. You can find more info here:
> http://www.2020people.com/node/84
>
> I'd be delighted if you might be able to connect me to anyone that might
> take an interest.
>
> Kind regards,
> Paul
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