Democracy Commons Project

The Democracy Commons Project (DCP) is a platform to publish resources, articles, videos, collaborative networks, to act as a catalyst in stimulating the social innovation of new democratic forms and projects. We live in a time where a new generation of political activist call for participatory democracy, and where a new generation of technologies potentiate …

Crowdsourcing the Pax Pacifica: A new story for cross strait relations

  Overview: This project proposes a crowd-sourced foresight approach to develop a set of scenarios that addresses conflict dynamics and resolution within China-USA-Taiwan/Republic of China (ROC) cross-strait relations. The method will engage participants in generating content for a Pax Pacifica vision and story-world, in which conflict dynamics have been transcended and a win-win solution created. …

Visioning using online mapping technology

Intent This proposal anticipates the creative combination of emerging online mapping technology with strategic foresight methods such as visioning, into a powerful hybrid approach. Context A new generation of online and editable maps increasingly gives people from all walks of life the ability to develop custom maps for their regions, towns or local areas. Online …

Commons Game – Initial Design Features

Ever have an idea that will simply not go away … it is stuck in your head and it won’t leave until you actually get it out? well, this is one of those ideas: The Commons Game. I wrote about the idea for a Commons Game about a year ago, let it go, but now it is …