Debategraph is an Anglo-Australia, creative commons, social venture that combines web-based, argument visualization with collaborative wiki editing to make the best arguments on all sides of complex public debates freely available to all, and continuously open to challenge and improvement by all.
Debategraph was co-founded by the former Australian Cabinet Minister, Peter Baldwin, and David Price in the UK, and was piloted with the ">UK Prime Minister's Office and the RSA and is currently being used by The Independent newspaper, Amanpour on CNN and the European Commission, as well as a collaborative learning tool in various universities and schools.
| full name | Debategraph |
| type | Free, browser-based visual debate mapping tool and public repository of debate maps. |
| short description | Debategraph is a creative commons, social venture that combines argument mapping and wiki-editing to let people around the world collaboratively map complex and contentious public issues; so that the best arguments on all sides of any debate can be freely available to all and continuously open to challenge and improvement by all. Our goal is to create a new kind of public service that enables local and global communities of people to think together by collaboratively building and editing comprehensive and succinct maps of complex debates that accurately present all sides of the debate from a neutral standpoint, free of repetitive clutter and noise. |
| "> ">creators | Peter Baldwin, David Price , @Debategraph |
| organization | Thoughtgraph Ltd. |
| available online | http://debategraph.org/ |
| licensing | Original material created by mappers with Debategraph is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License, and Debategraph is a signatory to the Cape Town Open Education Declaration and a supporter of Open Knowledge. The software is currently proprietary. |
| more information | Web: http://debategraph.org/ Blog Open to persuasion... Twitter: @Debategraph |
| note | Fully functional live debate maps that can be collaboratively edited synchronously and asynchronously, and can be embedded on websites and blogs to facliate distirbuted debate across the web. |