notes-groupDecisionMaking-GroupDecisionMakingInterests

One of my professional interests is exploring the potential of groupware for new forms of group decision-making and voting (and perhaps even governance).

Here's some of my interests along those lines:

• The Vivarto NetConferencePlus? software program, an open source voting & discussion groupware system that looks so awesome:

http://www.vivarto.com/NetConference/eng/index.htm

• "LiquidDemocracy?", or the idea of the entire population voting on every legislative decision, but being able to delegate votes on things they don't know or care about to friends (who can delegate further). See also:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/community/LiquidDemocracy

(NetConferencePlus? implements delegated voting, btw)

• One of my big wiki project priorities is adding more voting to wikis (although you might not notice since i have so little time for wiki projects that I haven't started this project despite having it on my list for 3 years). See also CommunityWiki:WikiVoting (I wrote a good portion of that page) at:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/community/WikiVoting

• The idea of implementing RobertsRules? as software program. First, this could be used as meeting support. Second, a parallelized version of RobertsRules? would allow large asynchronous online communities to have a unified agenda that would allow orderly decision-making. See also:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/community/RobertsRules