An emergent understanding of trust
Shawn Callahan writes about an ad-hoc experiment in aggregating what trust means to a group. He uses dotmocracy to rank a set of factors. My comment:
Shawn, while the list is fine, I am impressed with the activity and the effect it might have on succeeding events of the group. Perhaps after seeding only two or three factors to demonstrate the distinction between abstraction and practice, get the group to suggest the rest (in 10 words or less:-). I'd like to try this with citizens in a deliberative process, bringing trust to the surface and situated in context.In a deliberative setting, the same could be done with the term mutual respect. These are what makes deliberation a different kind of conversation, one that is quite alien to people used to competing for attention.
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