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Executive Summary
An international panel of 22 experts/stakeholders in e-democracy and structured dialogue were engaged for three weeks in an asynchronous and synchronous virtual interaction employing the technology of the Webscope wiki. The panel was invited to use the Structured Dialogic Design Process (SDDP).
This 2008 Historic Virtual SDDP was probably the first conducted with all participants located in different continents.
The Triggering Question (TQ) of the workshop was:
What are descriptors/requirements of the ideal image of the Agora of Philanthropolis
In response to the TQ, the 22 participants came up with 59 ideas, which were categorized into 14 clusters. Following the voting process, 38 ideas received one or more votes and 14 were structured to create the influence MAP shown below.
[[File:Finders_PlanetaryDialogue_2006_ListofFactors.pdf|thumb|center|upright=4.0|alt=MAP for Obama Vision.|"What factors will help significantly in rescuing the enlightent from its failings?"
According to the participants of this workshop, the ideas that appear to be the most influential were:
The co-laboratory was facilitated by a team led by Aleco Christakis. While Aleco was based in Crete, his Co-Facilitators, and Assistant Facilitators were based in the USA and in Cyprus.
In sum, the dialogue made it possible for the participants to imagine and describe a collective understanding of the complex situation (Problematique) facing the Obama administration in their vision of realizing bottom-up democracy in the USA, and maybe other parts of the planet.
Facilitators
| Name | City |
|---|---|
| Aleco Christakis | Archanes, Crete |
| Gayle Underwood | Allegan, Michigan, USA |
| Yiannis Laouris | Nicosia, Cyprus |
| Elia Petridou | Nicosia, Cyprus |
| Maria Georgiou | Nicosia, Cyprus |
Participants
| Name |
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| Craig Lindell |
| Heiner Benbking |
| Jon Li Davis |
| Ken Bausch |
| Larry Fergeson |
| Kevin Dye |
| La Donna Harris |
| Mancerac |
| Norma Romm |
| Paul Hays |
| Peter Jones |
| Roy Smith |
| Tom Flanagan |
| Janet McIntyre |
| Reynaldo Trevino |
External Links
Planetary_SUMMARYREPORTCOLABIJUNE2007.pdf Ozbekhan_PhilanthropolisApril23.pdf