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The first attempt made by [[Future Worlds Center]] pionners to organize a fully virtual [[Structured Democratic Dialogue Process]] has taken place in 2008. | The first attempt made by [[Future Worlds Center]] pionners to organize a fully virtual [[Structured Democratic Dialogue Process]] has taken place in 2008. | ||
In the context of Obama's vision for engaging stakeholders from all walks of life in a bottom-up democracy employing Internet technology, what factors do we anticipate, on the basis of our experiences with SDDP, will emerge as inhibitors to the actualization of his vision? | An international panel of 15 experts in e-democracy supported by a team of 5 structured dialogue experts were engaged for 3 weeks in asynchronous and synchronous virtual interactions. The Both the Participants and the Facilitators were spread across continents. The subject of inquiry was to identify key obstacles that could potentially prevent an ambitious vision for the newly elected Obama Administration from being implemented. The [[SDDP Obamavision]] co-laboratory used as Triggering Question: | ||
'''''In the context of Obama's vision for engaging stakeholders from all walks of life in a bottom-up democracy employing Internet technology, what factors do we anticipate, on the basis of our experiences with SDDP, will emerge as inhibitors to the actualization of his vision?''''' | |||
The picture below immortalized a moment during which the 3 Facilitators based in Cuprus were captured at a moment when the result of a vote was "No". The Lead facilitator, [[Aleco Christakis]] as asking the participants to respond whether one of identified challenges was aggravating another. In such a dilemma, a "Yes" is taken only when more than 2/3 (or sometimes 3/4) of the participants vote for a "Yes". In this case, not enough, as shown by the gesture of [[Yiannis Laouris]], in the middle, who was in charge of entering the outcome of the voting on the [[Cogniscope Software]]. [[Elia Petridou]] on the right, was in charge of transmitting her (cogniscope) computer screen to all participants, while [[Maria Georgiou]], on the left, was documenting the discussions and periodically updating, printing, and posting notes in front of the facilitators (shown on the window). | The picture below immortalized a moment during which the 3 Facilitators based in Cuprus were captured at a moment when the result of a vote was "No". The Lead facilitator, [[Aleco Christakis]] as asking the participants to respond whether one of identified challenges was aggravating another. In such a dilemma, a "Yes" is taken only when more than 2/3 (or sometimes 3/4) of the participants vote for a "Yes". In this case, not enough, as shown by the gesture of [[Yiannis Laouris]], in the middle, who was in charge of entering the outcome of the voting on the [[Cogniscope Software]]. [[Elia Petridou]] on the right, was in charge of transmitting her (cogniscope) computer screen to all participants, while [[Maria Georgiou]], on the left, was documenting the discussions and periodically updating, printing, and posting notes in front of the facilitators (shown on the window). | ||
