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	<title>Civic Studies &#187; Tom Atlee</title>
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		<title>Distinguishing Collective Wisdom from “the Wisdom of Crowds”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This reflective piece comes from NCDD blogger&#160;Tom Atlee of the Co-Intelligence Project. Tom&#8217;s original post can be found at&#160;www.tomatleeblog.com/?p=175327099. The popular book &#8220;The Wisdom of Crowds&#8221; says a lot about the remarkable accuracy of thousands of people making guesses about something that has a real but unknown answer now or in the future. This phenomenon is fascinating but it doesn&#8217;t provide us with actual wisdom&#160;to guide our collective future. What would real collective wisdom look like, and how might we find or co-create it? A [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/15553?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=distinguishing-collective-wisdom-from-the-wisdom-of-crowds">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Innovative Journalism Can Take Public Conversation to Scale</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Atlee]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have barely begun to use major media and journalism &#8211; both old and new forms &#8211; to scale up the impact of powerful public conversations about public issues beyond the rooms and online forums where those conversations take place. Our societies urgently need innovations and development in the area of public conversation journalism in order to bring collective intelligence and community wisdom into our policy-making and into the everyday activities of ordinary citizens and organizations. In this post I want to highlight the most [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/14766?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=innovative-journalism-can-take-public-conversation-to-scale">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Rosa Zubizarreta’s New Book, “From Conflict to Creative Collaboration”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are happy to share the post below from NCDD organizational member Tom Atlee of the Co-Intelligence Institute, which came via&#160;our great&#160;Submit-to-Blog Form.&#160;Do you have news you want to share with the NCDD network? Just&#160;click here&#160;to submit your news post for the NCDD Blog! I just finished reading NCDD member Rosa Zubizarreta&#8217;s new book From Conflict to Creative Collaboration: A User&#8217;s Guide to Dynamic Facilitation. I&#8217;m quite excited. I&#8217;ve known about &#8220;DF&#8221; for fifteen years, and I&#8217;ve never seen it described as clearly and compellingly [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/14592?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=review-of-rosa-zubizarretas-new-book-from-conflict-to-creative-collaboration">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Journalism to enhance citizen-based deliberative democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Atlee]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Practitioners and advocates involved with group process, dialogue and deliberation, public engagement, and deliberative democracy are aware that ordinary people, under the right conditions, are capable of generating public policy guidance that is at least as wise&#8212;and often far wiser&#8212;than what we typically see produced by government bodies. Such forums facilitate productive reflection and interaction among diverse citizens&#8212;often informed by fair briefings and diverse experts&#8212;to come up with creative responses to major public issues that make sense to a very wide spectrum of their fellow ... <a href="http://ncdd.org/12614">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bias warps reason. Does deliberation ameliorate that?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 15:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary: Research shows that individuals bend facts and math to align with their existing views. But does this happen when they&#8217;re in high quality interactive deliberative forums? A recent Salon article &#8220;Study Proves That Politics and Math Are Incompatible&#8220;&#160;reports that research led by Yale law professor Dan Kahan demonstrates that &#8220;it&#8217;s easier than we think for reasonable people to trick themselves into reaching unreasonable conclusions. Kahan and his team found that, when it comes to controversial issues, people&#8217;s ability to do math is impacted by ... <a href="http://ncdd.org/12620">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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