Structured Dialogic Design – Institute for 21st Century Agoras

US EPA Taking Democratic Steps Toward Community Involvement

tomflanagan — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:35:13 +0000

The Institute for 21st Century Agoras presented a technology poster at the EPA’s 13th Community Involvement Training Conference in Boston on July 30 – August 1. Our poster is entitled A Democratic Approach for Sustainable Futures, with a more lengthy sub-title “Framing Consensus Views for Collective Action: The Sociotechnology of Interpretive Structural Modeling Embedded within Structured

What would a “national dialogue infrastructure” look like?

tomflanagan — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:16:26 +0000

The director of the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation recently asked listserv members for responses to the concept of a “national dialogue infrastructure.” The goal was to gather some input for an NCDD summit to be held in Seattle in the fall of 2012, and the request called attention first to the “values” that