I'm actively researching and cataloging various kinds of projects relating to decision-support, deliberation, sense-making, and reasoning. Some example categories include:

  • Deliberative Democracy Tools - Systems for structured citizen participation, including participatory budgeting platforms and stakeholder engagement tools

  • Argument Mapping & Visualization - Platforms for making reasoning explicit and visually representing dialectical structures

  • Deep Thinking Environments - Slow media and platforms designed for thoughtful engagement rather than rapid interaction

  • Belief Tracking Systems - Tools for attestation, commitment to positions, and tracking belief revision over time

  • Bayesian & Evidential Reasoning Frameworks - Platforms that make probabilistic thinking explicit and support coherent belief updating

  • Epistemic Communities - Networks and platforms with explicit norms for truth-seeking and intellectual humility

  • Structured Dialogue Systems - Tools supporting deep listening and methodical conversation beyond typical messaging platforms

  • Cooperative Governance Frameworks - Sociocratic, holacratic, and other systems for managing shared resources and decision-making

  • Knowledge Synthesis & Curation - Tools for collaborative sense-making with quality controls beyond popularity metrics

  • Decision Support Systems - Frameworks making decision processes explicit, including values clarification and cognitive debiasing

  • Consensus-Building Methodologies - Approaches for finding agreement through structured deliberation rather than voting or averaging

  • Collaborative Forecasting - Platforms for collective prediction and long-term thinking across groups

  • Distributed Sense-Making - Tools enabling groups to develop shared understanding of complex issues

  • Platform Cooperativism - Digital platforms owned and governed by their users/workers rather than external shareholders

  • Solidarity Economy Infrastructure - Tools supporting mutual aid, community wealth building, and non-extractive economics

Does this interest you as well? Please reach out or comment. I'm hoping to connect with other people with similar interests.

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