This sounds great, and I might suggest you contact an organization attempting something of the kind that might use the help.
The NYC AIA is launching it's Public Information Exchange, a comprehensive web site for information on New York City development proposals, public reviews and comment. I've made proposals to them that were well received. Your idea sounds like something that would interest them too. I think they're under funded and understaffed, but plan a site launch this spring. If you had any way to direct resources to a test ground for public policy systems thinking, they might be an very excellent candidate. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 212-683-0023, Rick Bell the director Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 680 Ft. Washington Ave NY NY 10040 tel: 212-795-4844 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] explorations: www.synapse9.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allison Pinto > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 9:00 AM > To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Can you guess the source. > > > Hello all, > > This is a fun discussion to be following. The use of > technology to influence the emergence of socio-political > processes & dynamics is something that I've become interested > in as well. I've begun working with some USF Complexity > Brownbag colleagues on developing a web platform of sorts to > facilitate the "co-creation" of policy...we call it > "WikiPolicy" for short. We plan to use the policies and > issues relating to the institutional abuse of youth as the > pilot issue / policy, as I am aware that there is already a > lot of web-based discussion and community-organizing > occurring in relation to this issue. As we've conceived of > it so far, in WikiPolicy there will be a "room" for each > perspective: let's say youth, parents, program operators, > child-serving professionals, and legislators. New rooms may > form as additional perspectives show up, such as educational > consultants, transport services, and others involved in "the > industry" of private residential treatment. Each room will > include a mechanism for uploading & tagging stories (either > using Dave Snowden's Cog Edge Sensemaker software or possibly > Theodore Taptikis' Storymaker software), a wiki for a > collective & continually re-worked "our perspective" > statement, a wiki for the continual tweaking and editing of > an actual policy relating to the issue(in this case, we'll go > with George Miller's H.R. 1738 which died last year in > committee but we hear will soon be revived) and a chat space > for continual sense-making among participants. The idea is > that policy makers could then tap into the WikiPolicy site to > get a more detailed sense of how different folks feel about > the issue and what more specifically people take issue with > in terms of proposed legislation, rather than just flying in > a few people to provide testimony to inform the crafting of a > given piece of legislation. If it really took off, it might > even change dynamics relating to lobbying. Also, we think it > would be interesting to see what happens when individuals / > sectors with different perspectives are able to become more > familiar with the particulars of one another's perspectives, > and then to see how this might influence self-organization in > terms of decisions and actions regardless of what plays out > with regard to policy. > > If anybody's got suggestions for us, technology-wise or > otherwise, I'd be glad to hear your thoughts & ideas. > > Allison Pinto > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
