I’m becoming a real fan of Daniel Little’s UnderstandingSociety blog. Here he considers “how good is deliberative democracy?”: The approach that starts and ends with voting among alternatives has a major shortcoming: no one gets a chance to make persuasive arguments to other citizens; no one has the opportunity of having his/her own beliefs challenged; [...]
Tagged as: articulation, deliberation, deliberative democracy, democracy, mindsets, objectivity, process, self-deception, social media, web
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by OpenConceptual on 07-12-2009
in mission
Just sort of a brainstorm here, following up on some of my relatively more youthful attempts to outline what this is all about: Draft Enterprise Model The Practice of Theory The other day I jotted down a few points — trying to distill the underlying mission of this amorphous enterprise. It has a few different [...]
Tagged as: accountability, articulation, beta, business, change, civics, decision-making, decisions, design thinking, digitization, government, information, objectivity, open, open government, open source, openness, org theory, organizations, participation, politics, pragmatism, social web, society, transparency, volunteering, web
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by OpenConceptual on 07-14-2009
in commentary
This morning I realized I was a little unfair to Glen Pearson in my last post at BrianFrank.ca. I excerpted a bit of his blog as a jumping-off point, but the rest of my post didn’t really have much to do with what he wrote. I kind of left it hanging there as if he didn’t [...]
Tagged as: articulation, blogging, canada, generativity, glen pearson, london, media, non-partisanship, openness, politicians, politics, relevance, snark, social media, the parallel parliament
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