Deliberative Tools Gallery

Do → Learn → Decide → (repeat)

We describe governance as a cycle of doing something, learning from how it went, deciding to undertake a change process, and returning to action under a new plan. 

We describe the Learn and Decide portions as the “deliberative arc” portion of the loop. Based on the functions provided by the tools participating in the first interop cohort, we defined stages on this arc:

Stage Description
Evaluating reflecting on current conditions
Agenda setting prioritizing, framing, identifying dimensions and stakeholders
Eliciting self-reflecting on values, lived experience, and acquired knowledge
Learning welcoming evidence or others’ lived experience, mapping arguments, graphing debates, steel manning, fact-checking
Deliberating explaining yourself to others, being paraphrased to others, articulating values, arguing positions 
Proposing ideating solutions, forming proposals, modeling scenarios
Deciding ranking, voting, integrating objections, consenting
Actuating taking a decision and making it happen, tracking status

Use the filter below to browse the open source tools participating in Metagov’s Interoperability research area metagov.org/projects/interop by stage:

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