Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
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This past weekend, Barcamp celebrated its 2-year anniversary at BarCampBlock in Palo Alto, CA.
For those who’ve never heard of the concept:
BarCamp is an international network of unconferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies and social protocols.
From the BarCampBlock press release:
Who [...]
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The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) provides a good definition of dialogue and deliberation, and describes how the two relate to each other:
So what are dialogue and deliberation anyway?
Dialogue is a process that allows people, usually in small groups, to share their perspectives and experiences with one another about difficult issues we tend [...]
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According to Wikipedia:
Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. … Although the term is generally applied to behavior within governments, politics is observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions.
Politics consists of “social relations involving authority or power”. and refers to the regulation of a political unit, [...]
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Welcome to Intellitics!
This is the obligatory first post to the blog.
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