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I suggest that one of the open ended questions is this: how to get people to care enough about the details of their lives to compel them to a more active management mode than our current "you really gotta want it" or more pervasive "whatever" modes.
For example, I have love-hate relationships with Google (who collects, to be sure, and it's relatively opaque) and Privowny (who collects, transparently, but the level of management is really high!). We don't yet have tools that I'm aware of that collect "just the right stuff." Do I know what that is? There's likely a learning curve, like the old voice recognition systems, but what are we teaching our personal devices/clouds to do?
-- Judi Clark, Digital ID Coach
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On Jan 20, 2013, at 5:00 PM, Lucas Cioffi wrote: Hi All,
I've been happily soaking in the discussion on this listserv since attending the 2008 VRM workshop in Cambridge.
I'd like to organize a 2-week asynchronous online townhall on the State of VRM for two reasons: 1) I want to create a robust knowledge-sharing opportunity for the community and 2) I want to test out the software that I've built.
I don't like the form that online townhalls take in politics-- they are mainly 1-way broadcasts of information. So the software I'm building focuses on a many-to-many sharing of information. Instead of broadcasting, the convener asks questions or opens up hypotheses for feedback/debate. The format is 1) discuss relevant facts and definitions 2) brainstorm 3) deliberate and 4) summarize.
This is not to replace the listserv-- just to provide a temporary space for more in-depth discussion at scale to move some ideas forward. Would something like this be useful to us or would it be a waste of time?
If this is to succeed, I'll need some help choosing the following: - What are some open-ended questions that members of the VRM community may want to discuss?
- What are statements/hypotheses that members of the VRM community may want to debate?
- Additionally, if there are any words/phrases that have unclear definitions within the community and are important for the community to have a broader consensus emerge on these terms, which words would they be?
Lucas Cioffi Board Member, National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation CEO, AthenaBridge Inc Charlottesville, VA 917-528-1831
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