Tools for Participation: Collaboration, Deliberation, and Decision Support
http://www.publicsphereproject.org/events/diac08/
Featuring . . .
Community Networks ~~ Collaboratorium ~~ Deliberative Polling ~~
"Europe in One Room" ~~ America Speaks ~~ Deliberative Polling
~~ Argumentation ~~ Issue Metamaps ~~ Social Change ~~
Democracy ~~ Wicked Problems ~~ e-Government
~~ Web 2.0 // Pattern Languages ~~ and much more !
Sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and UC Berkeley School of Information
University of California Berkeley, California, US
June 26 - 29, 2008
It has been twenty-one years since the DIAC Symposium for exploring
the Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing was first
convened in Seattle.
Now, in the early days of the 21st century humankind faces
challenges of even greater proportions than those perceived in 1987.
The ability of people around the world to discuss, make decisions,
and take action collaboratively is critical to addressing these
challenges. Unfortunately, this fact is rarely acknowledged by
decision-makers.
Researchers, scholars, activists, advocates, artists, educators,
technologists, designers, students, policy-makers, entrepreneurs,
journalists and citizens are rising to these challenges in many
ways, including the development of new communication technologies
that build on the opportunities afforded by the Internet and other
new (as well as old) media.
DIAC-2008 combines CPSR's 11th DIAC symposium with the third
Conference on Online Deliberation. The joint conference provides a
platform and a forum for highlighting socio-technological
opportunities, challenges, and pitfalls in the area of community and
civic action.
In addition to the wide range of planned events there will be
extensive opportunities for collegial discussion at the conference.
Register now for an innovative and compelling exploration of the
future of meaningful social participation. We have kept registration
fees low to encourage wide attendance.
Research Papers
Supporting Collaborative Deliberation Using a Large-Scale
Argumentation System: The MIT Collaboratorium
Mark Klein and Luca Iandoli
What Makes a Search Engine Good for Democracy? Public Opinion
Polling and the Evaluation of Software
Jo Ann Sison and Warren Sack
"Liberating Voices" in South Asia: Case Study of Networked
Resistance in Jharkhand
Justin Smith
CoLPE: Communities of Learning Practice Environment
Santi Caballe and Jerome Feldman
A Two-Room E-Deliberation Environment
Fiorella De Cindio, Cristian Peraboni, and Leonardo Sonnante
The KerbabelTM On-Line Deliberation Support Tool
Aurlie Chamaret
On Social Function: New Language for Discussing Technology for
Social Action
Andy Dearden and Ann Light
Privacy Awareness for the Design of Pervasive Home-Based Technology
for Elders
Tonya Thompson
Community Network Analysis: Understanding the Contexts and Content
of Community Communications
Peter Day
Designing a General Architecture to Support eGovernment
Carlos Grima-Izquierdo and David Ros Insua
Networked Publics: Publicity and Privacy on the Internet
Colin Koopman
Exploratory Papers
ACRAW Alliance for Collaborative Research Work in Arab Countries
Lilia Kakaradova
B-Involved -- Extending Electronic Public Participation
Paulo Rosa, Angela Guimares Pereira, and Gonalo Lobo
Exploring the Potential for Open-Source Self-Governance
Mike Mussman
Computer, Neural, and Social Networks
Jerome Feldman, Daniel Lee, and David Thaw
Community, Disability And Response to Disaster Mitigation in
Bangladesh
Salma Rahman and Shahid Mallick
Trust for Online Deliberation on Wicked Problems: Implications for
the Design of Internet-based Large Scale Collaborative Platforms
Ali Gurkan and Luca Iandoli
Aspirational Goals and Incremental Tools: Does Forecasting Exclude
Other Frameworks for Strategic Planning?
Gregory Hill, Michael Monticino, Eric T. Jones, Steven Kolmes,
and Rebecca McLain
Integrating Online Deliberation into Transportation Investment
Decision-making: Preliminary Reflections on a Field Experiment
Matthew W. Wilson and Kevin S. Ramsey
Colloki: Rethinking Local Conversations on the Web
Sameer Ahuja, Manuel A. Perez-Quinones, Andrea Kavanaugh,
Candida Tauro, B. Joon Kim
Growing a Global Issue Metamap: An Issue-based Approach to Policy
Deliberation
Jeff Conklin
Representing Community Concerns in Agent-Based Models: A Web 2.0
Approach
Catriona Kennedy
Online shopping relationship as collaborative decision process: A
focus on buyer-seller interactions
Thomas Stenger
Tools for Participation as a Citizen-Led Grand Challenge
Douglas Schuler
Patterns, Process and Systems-Thinking: Putting Social Pattern
Languages to Work
Justin Smith
Social Change and Social Justice: Is There a Role for Technology?
Blanca Gordo
Community Media and Community Development: a Disruptive Innovation?
Peter Day
Workshops
Community networking Strategies
Peter Day
Role Challenges in Technology and Social Action Projects: Bridging
the Gap between Social Software and Social Contexts
Nick Plant
Exploring a Large Scale Online Citizen Engagement Strategy
Susanna Haas Lyons
Posters
Social Software's Social Side-Effects
Sean Munson and Paul Resnick
Designing Social Psychological Incentives for Online Collective
Action
Judd Antin
Panel Discussions
Social Change and Social Justice: Is there a Role for Technology?
Organized by Blanca Gordo
What's New In the Bay Area? Deliberative Systems and their Brethren
Organized by Todd Davies
Other presentations and panel discussions are being discussed.
Possibilities include "What type of software does the world need?"
and other topics.
Technology Demonstrations
CivicEvolution
Brian Sullivan
Knowledge Media Tools for Capturing Deliberation in Participatory
Spatial Planning
Anna De Liddo, and Simon Buckingham-Shum
VizBlog: A Visualization Tool for Blog Discovery
Candida Tauro, Sameer Ahuja, Manuel A. Prez-Quiones, Andrea
Kavanaugh, and Philip Isenhour
Dialogue Mapping Demonstration
Jeff Conklin
TransparentDemocracy
Kim Cranston and Jeff Manning
e-Liberate web-based system for online Roberts Rules of Order
Douglas Schuler
Europe in One Room
We have the opportunity to preview the rough cut of "Europe in One
Room." This new documentary tells the story of the first European
Wide Deliberative Poll in which a scientific sample of all of Europe
gathered in the Parliament Building in Brussels in October 2007 to
deliberate for three days about the future of Europe. Each of the 27
countries were represented and the issues were discussed in 22
languages. Told through the eyes of the participants and organizers,
this unprecedented experiment in transnational democracy shows that
dialogue across differences of language and nationality is possible.
This project is based on the work of Stanford professor Jim Fishkin
who will be present at the showing.
Open Space Session
We're planning an Open Space Technology session on "The Future of
Tools for Participation: Visions, Resources and Needs" as a capstone
event on the last day of the conference, June 29. This event will be
free to the public (although donations are strongly encouraged). The
open space approach may be the best way to spend less structured
time as a collective group to formulate research and action plans.
Berkeley, California
It's generally warm (but not hot) in Berkeley in late June.
Berkeley, California, is known for its higher education and
cosmopolitan culture and is the home of social movements, such as
the Free Speech Movement, as well as innovative technology such as
BSD (Berkeley Unix). The conference hotel is located on the water
with a view of the San Francisco skyline.
NOTE: We are still looking for a few dedicated volunteers. If you
are available for volunteer work now (and you live in the Bay Area)
or if you plan to be in the Bay Area in time for the event, let me
know. Douglas ]at[ publicsphereproject ]dot[ org.
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