One of the things that the Interactivity Foundation does is to teach people how to think about public policy possibilities. This will sound patronizing only if you misunderstand why, what,...

There are many different kinds of the interactivity going on in IF public discussions. But the interactivity of ideas is one of the most important ones. Our reports are developed...

In my last entry I described citizen discussion reports as a way to connect sanctuary discussion and public discussion.  Here I want to suggest several possible ways in which public...

Sanctuary discussions, which I described in my previous post, need not culminate in a written document.  But if their results are to be made available for public discussion, they need...

At the mention of “citizen discussion,” we tend to conjure up images of rapid-fire, heated exchanges between partisans, often in the glare of the media spotlight.  Haste, partisan heat, and...

One of IF’s central activities is to produce discussion reports.  We have since the beginning emphasized that these reports are different from other texts, such as conventional policy reports,...