WRITTEN ON June 6th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Pertinent Art, Political engagement, What do we want?

Oh wow. Debategraph is described at length on the White House web site:

Debategraph is a visual policy mapping tool that is being used for running citizen engagement on climate change in Europe. Debategraph translated our mindmap of the redacted transparency proposals into the interactive Debategraph. In this format, the different proposals are rateable, addressable, and open to collaborative editing. People can also add supporting and opposing arguments to the proposals.

There’s even a quote from our best mate David Price complete with tactfully US-friendly split infinitive:

“The aim with visual policy maps of this kind is to collaboratively weave together all of the salient proposals and arguments dispersed through the community into a single rich, transparent structure—in which each idea and argument is expressed just once—so that anyone can explore quickly and gain a good sense of the perceived merits of the relevant choices,” says David Price, Debategraph’s co-founder.

All this in the week Obama starts an entirely new dialogue with the Muslim world, visits Buchenwald, and commemorates D-Day. Go Bazzer O’Bazzer! Go David! Go Debategraph!