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"Most companies think that if you can just get hackers, pizza, and data together in a room, magic will happen." A sobering take on hackathons by Harvard Business Review.

I saw a fascinating presentation by the guy who help make this. It is quite a fascinating attempt to summarize rich personal opinions and bring people together. Although the linked page, never seemed to take off, it shows potential.

Google to help Italian towns to set up participatory urban planning processes. SketchUp + social software to be used.

A mattermap is a diagram of a news story, discussion or event. Our software helps journalists to collect and organize citations and sources around a central question.

Reasonwell helps people to engage in productive, structured policy debate by making it easy to map out arguments, assumptions and evidence.

After Masters of Networks, UNDP and INRIA work out a network analysis of World Bank contractors.

After Masters of Networks, 

Government 3.0: Rethinking Governance and Re-Imagining Democracy for the 21st Century at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU is a semester-long exploration of how to use technology to improve governance. Through conversations with leading technology and policy innovators, in-depth reading and, above all, personal reflection we will teach ourselves more about advances in technology, how those innovations can be applied to making decisions and solving problems and design new experiments that might help advance institutional innovation.

De Argumentenfabriek helps organizations think clearly and make better decisions via transparent and structured mapping of complex issues.

"This study investigates the ethical aspects of deploying and researching into so-called climate engineering methods, i.e. large-scale technical interventions in the climate system with the objective of offsetting anthropogenic climate change. The moral reasons in favour of and against R&D into and deployment of CE methods are analysed by means of argument maps."

Build narrative environments for idea discovery, knowledge mapping, sensemaking and creative conversations.

An excellent example of collaborative argument mapping using MindMeister by Ralf Grötker's DebattenProfis team.

Intuitively, you can monitor a large and sparsely connected population by just looking at small groups of high-degree, high-centrality individuals.