December 1, 2009 Embedding Deliberation in Community Life The extended network that promotes citizen discussion places a high value on ways to make discussion ongoing and self-sustaining. This matter of the “stickiness” of citizen discussion is referred to...
November 30, 2009 Where Do We Make Public Policy Choices? IF public discussions are intended to help you think through the public policy choices you make. But it may be hard to see where and when such choices might actually...
November 9, 2009 Why Bring IF Into the Classroom? If you have not been to a university campus since the 1960s or 1970s, you might be surprised to find how similar the classroom environment is to that which you...
September 9, 2009 Little Things That Count: A Human Scale of Discussion When people are invited to take part in one of the Interactivity Foundation’s Public Discussions they often wonder what effect this could have if we meet with just a small...
August 9, 2009 Attitudes of Discussion Picture for a moment two very different kinds of citizen “discussions” that took place this summer. Both were focused on issues surrounding health and healthcare in our society. For the...