Debategraph

DebateGraph is an award-winning, web-platform for visualizing and sharing networks of thought – and opening reasoning and action to collaborative learning and iterative improvement.Create your own maps and explore and contribute to maps created by amongst others: CNN, the White House, the UK Prime Minister's Office, The Independent, and the Foreign Office. DebateGraph is being used in over 100 countries and helping people reason and learn together more effectively in many different fields, including: education, health, governance, media, publishing, environment, conflict resolution, conferences, group facilitation, and public consultation and planning.There's no limit to the number of people who can collaborate on maps, and you are welcome to start building and sharing public and private maps on any topic now. Copyright © 2014 Thoughtgraph Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

Spicynodes Open-Source Argument Mapping The latest version of Argunet features new tools that make it easier to organize the debates and to search through debates located on the Argunet-server or on your computer. To help you organize your work you can label the debates using private and non private tags and search for existing debates using a search-engine. The label-feature [...] The latest version of Argunet fastens Client-Server communication. The Argunet Server is up again. The Argunet Server at the FU Berlin is temporarily down for maintenance and updates. After more than a year of work, we proudly present you Argunet 1.0.0! brandeins online

mindmeister Free mind mapping (and related types) software There are regular inquiries on Twitter and in forums about free mind mapping software, so to provide answers, InformationTamers have put together this list. We built this article, with permission, using the most complete source for details of information mapping software on the Web: Mind-mapping.org. Hat tip to Vic Gee who put Mind-mapping.org together and kept it up to date for years. [Update: I took over that site in August 2013.] Mind-mapping.org has a good capability for selecting software by map type and operating system (click on the 'Refine software list' tab at the top right of its web page), and shows the price. "Free" here is as in beer, not in freedom, though some of the software listed is open source, so is free in both senses. Of course a pencil and paper is always free - or almost. 3D concept and mind maps Concept maps *Some people find navigating the Cmap site idiosycratic -- the interface is a little unusual -- so here's the skinny: Development platforms for map forms Treemaps

APT Tax Murally Mind42.com - Collaborative mind mapping in your browser Global Sensemaking - Tools for Dialogue and Deliberation on Wick Planungszelle Das Verfahren Planungszelle/Bürgergutachten stellt einen besonders wirksamen Ansatz zur Überwindung der »klassischen« Probleme der Bürger(innen)beteiligung dar: geringe Resonanz, fehlende Informiertheit, Oberflächlichkeit, soziale Selektivität, Dominanz organisationsstarker Interessen, Engagement erst bei Betroffenheit und vielfach zu spät, stark polarisierte und kaum mehr überbrückbare Meinungsunterschiede. Das Verfahren wurde von dem Wuppertaler Soziologieprofessor Peter C. Dienel schon in den siebziger Jahren entwickelt und hat in den letzten Jahren auch international vielfältige Beachtung gefunden. Die Verfahrenselemente Eine Planungszelle ist eine Gruppe von ca. 25 im Zufallsverfahren ausgewählten Bürgerinnen und Bürgern, die für ca. eine Woche von ihren arbeitsalltäglichen Verpflichtungen freigestellt werden, um in Gruppen Lösungsvorschläge für ein vorgegebenes Planungsproblem zu erarbeiten. In der Regel tagen mehrere Planungszellen simultan zum gleichen Thema. a) Zufallsauswahl

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