Online Deliberation conference presentation
I’m chuffed that the academic review panel at the Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation (#OD2010) conference (30 June – 02 July) has accepted a paper I wrote, entitled Online deliberation as preamble to large-scale facilitated engagement events (pdf 107kb). I had intended to travel to the University of Leeds to present it, but my current health crisis has nixed that.
The organisers have kindly allowed me to produce a short talking-head video that they’ll show instead. My thesis is that online deliberation in the lead-up to face-to-face public engagement should constructively focus on the diversity and multiplicity of values, ethics, beliefs and even self-interests that public policy in a particular context should satisfy. Public deliberation would be more inclusive and legitimate if this landscape is well-explored before policy solutions are considered. A protracted online phase provides the time necessary for this exploration, at relatively low cost.
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