This page contains links to projects, conferences, and papers relevant to software support for group and community discussion and decision making.
Projects
- http://groupspace.org/
- http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/e-liberate/about.php
- alive and looks great; but it's not open-source yet
- http://trout.cpsr.org/program/sphere/
- parent project of e-Liberate
- http://facilitate.com/
- http://www.groupsystems.com/ GroupSystems
- http://www.actionforum.com/
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/delib/
- (seems to be dead; has not released any files; but there are some interesting, undocumented PHP scripts in its CVS
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygavel/
- (seems to be dead; has one release, but it is only 1 page of infrastructure code for quizzes, no parlimentary procedure in there)
Conferences
- http://www.online-deliberation.net/
- Prospects for Electronic Democracy
- http://insites.heinz.cmu.edu:8080/insites/events/past_events/conferences/democracy/
- International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society
- http://www.technology-conference.com/
Papers (read)
- An Online Environment for Democratic Deliberation: Motivations, Principles, and Design
- http://www.stanford.edu/~davies/deme-principles.pdf
- Rule-Mitigated Collaboration Technology
- http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/abs_free.jsp?arNumber=1214186
- description of a software architecture for distributed collaboration regulated by a variant of Robert's Rules of Order
- Online Deliberation: Possibilities of the Internet for Deliberative Democracy
- http://insites.heinz.cmu.edu:8080/insites/events/past_events/conferences/index_html/democracy/paper/witschge.pdf
- Horan and Benington, 2000
- A Protocol for Using Electronic Messaging to Facilitate Academic Committee Deliberations
- http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=ktjqcmgd7j7v3mvd
- ideas for integrating e-mail communication into committees that function according to Robert's Rules of Order
- The facilitators perspective on meetings and implications for group support systems design
- http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=344246
- thesis: group support systems should be more oriented toward supporting the facilitator's activities
- Computer-based systems for cooperative work and group decision making
- http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=46158
- a survey of group decision support systems
- Formalizing Robert's Rules of Order: An experiment in automating mediation of group decision making
- http://www.bi.fraunhofer.de/publications/report/0012/
- Groupware and social dynamics: eight challenges for developers
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~grudin/Papers/CACM94/cacm94.html
- reasons why developing and deploying groupware is more difficult than single-user or organization-wide applications, and approaches to overcoming the difficulty
- Electronic meeting systems to support group work
- http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=105783.105793
- report on large, long-term project at University of Arizona and IBM, encompassing development of many collaborative tools and numerous studies of their use
- DeSanctis and Gallupe, 1987
- A Foundation for the Study of Group Decision Support Systems
- http://cpe.njit.edu/dlnotes/CIS/CIS675/aFOUNDATIONfORtHEsTUDYoFgROUP.pdf
Papers (to read)
- Participatory Democracy Networks
- http://www.betterdemocracy.net/pdn
- McBurney and Parsons, 2004
- A Denotational Semantics for Deliberation Dialogues
- http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1018735
- Discussing the Rules: Electronic Rulemaking and Democratic Deliberation
- http://www.rff.org/Documents/RFF-DP-03-2.pdf
- Discourse Support Systems for Deliberative Democracy
- http://www.springerlink.com/index/RPXGAA2PPALC8B6Q.pdf
- Coleman and G�tze, 2001
- Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation by
- http://bowlingtogether.net/
- Structured online interactions: improving the decision-making of small discussion groups
- http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=359001
- Rule-Mitigated Collaboration Technology
- http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/ftdcs/1999/0468/00/04680137abs.htm
- A comprehensive model of anonymity in computer-supported group decision making
- http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=353124
- Maaranen and Lyytinen, 1995
- Designing meeting support systems in a user-centered manner: the case of the Helsinki prototype system
- http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=224054
- Computer-mediated communication, de-individuation and group decision-making
- http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=105994.106001
- Electronic meeting support: the GroupSystems concept
- http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=105994.106000
- The organizational implementation of an electronic meeting system: an analysis of the innovation process
- http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=97308
- Beyond the chalkboard: computer support for collaboration and problem solving in meetings
- http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=7887
References
- Robert's Rules of Order Revised
- http://www.constitution.org/rror/rror--00.htm
- by General Henry M. Robert
- 1915 Version, Public Domain
Keywords
- online deliberation
- group decision support systems (GDSS)
- electronic meeting systems (EMS)
- electronic meeting support
- electronic meetings
- electronic brainstorming systems (EBS)
- electronic brainstorming
- electronic democracy
- e-government
- group decision making
- organizational behavior and human decision processes