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Tools and platforms that aid group decision making through deliberate design decisions to improve the likelihood of desired outcomes, such as consensus.
Suggested reading:
- Seeds for Change guide to consensus-based decision making, including benefits, drawbacks, when to use it, and when not to.
- Facilitation tools for meetings and workshops.
- University of Waterloo’s Centre for Teaching Excellence guide to (analog) Group Decision Making.
- Wikipedia has articles about the long history of attempted Decision Support Systems and online deliberation.
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LISA
United States of AmericaRobot Lawyer Lisa works with you and another party to generate a mutually-satisfactory Non-Disclosure Agreement without involving human lawyers
Rousseau
ItalyDecision-making site for the Italian Five Star Movement
Pol.is
Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaPolis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.
CONSUL
AmsterdamCONSUL is a tool that allows a city to develop with little time and safely processes of citizen participation on the Internet.
Cobi: Community-based scheduling
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Cobi engages an entire academic community in planning a large-scale conference. Cobi elicits community members' preferences and constraints, and provi
Consider.it
Portland, ORA web forum that elevates your community's opinions. Civil and organized discussion even when hundreds of stakeholders participate.
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