comtech 2013 - Workshop Large-Scale Idea Management and Deliberation Systems

Business and civic organizations are seeking new technologies and services that better enable their networked communities to participate in discussions and deliberate on common issues. At the same time communities increasingly expect such opportunities to contribute to the co-design and to influence the evolution of their business and civic endeavour. Some communities need better tools for deliberating or innovating collectively; others need tools for defining shared goals and influencing their members' behaviors toward such goals (e.g., sustainability). So, while social media have greatly simplified knowledge production and sharing, a growing challenge is to develop tools for large-scale ideation and deliberation (LSID). These tools can increase societal and business effectiveness by crowdsourcing efforts and promoting participation across large communities. This workshop aims to bring together leading researchers, designers, and engineers who are working on this new class of systems.