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Question: The GroupDialog online consensus building methodology,, Would CPNN or other groups want to experiment with it? CPNN article: Jewish-Muslim Email Dialogue Success
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Posted: June 29 2005,09:25
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Roger Eaton
Posted: July 02 2005,22:45
The Jewish-Muslim dialogue was implemented using a special online/email "Group Dialog" consensus building process that proceeds in rounds.  Members of a group write messages and then vote to select one of the messages to represent the group.  This process then can be put to work in a number of ways: The Group Dialog process is implemented using MySQL, .Net technology and C# code.  It is available as open source, and if you can't afford M$ Visual Studio, the open source monodevelop should work for you on linux.  If your organization is interested to use the process but does not have the technical expertise to run the show on your own box, we might well be interested in providing services gratis.  Give us a .   It seems such a natural focus for the thousands or maybe tens of thousands of progressive American organizations that are oriented towards cool [img]http://cpnn-world.org/cgi-bin....mg] nonviolent solutions.  You'd think!  So why not put a call out there for suggestions and use the Group Dialog process to have the cpnn participants give their ideas and then vote to select the best.  This could be awkward.  Cpnn staff might not find the "best" really workable -- but it would get things off the dime.  Or I think it might.


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hraisz
Posted: July 15 2005,07:54
This seems like a wonderful use of the technology of the internet. I think often there is more honest exchange of opinion when people do not have to respond to the body language of the other people in the dialogue.
I wonder whether the Center for Islamic Pluralism has tried it?
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Roger Eaton
Posted: July 16 2005,16:42
braisz, thanks for good words on the technology of the Group Dialog process.  I did look up the Center for Islamic Pluralism and found its executive director, Stephen Schwarz to be something of a neocon. An interesting fellow for sure, but too harsh on American Muslim groups CAIR and MPAC, in my estimation.

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