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A unique software and decision making platform for collaborative thinking and decision making

A unique software and decision making platform for collaborative thinking and decision making. Ethelo Hosts. John Richardson Vision and Execution. Darryl Brousseau Sales and marketing. Kent Mewhort Technology development. John Dowler Web support. Justin Simpson Board member.

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A unique software and decision making platform for collaborative thinking and decision making

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  1. A unique software and decision making platform for collaborative thinking and decision making

  2. Ethelo Hosts John Richardson Vision and Execution Darryl Brousseau Sales and marketing Kent Mewhort Technology development John Dowler Web support Justin Simpson Board member Kathryn Thomson Public engagement www.ethelodecisions.com

  3. What we’ll cover today • Ethelo’s story • Ethelo background, premises • The platform • Your questions • Small group break outs • How to set up an Ethelo decision • Ethelo’s invitation to NCDD members

  4. Ethelo—collaborative deliberation and collective intention

  5. What makes Ethelo unique?

  6. Ethelo can help you to… • Extend/amplify the dialogue and deliberation process • Make the group’s collective intention visible to itself , to decision makers • Analyze many and highly complex combinations of options and issues –Etheloproduces the set of options that will have the most support by the most number of people. • Create a fair, transparent, more democratic decision or plan of action

  7. Where Ethelo excels… • Large numbers of people • Complex/controversial issues • Helping people see trade-offs—weigh their values against competing values

  8. Key questions to determine a well supported decision • Is this a fair process? • Is there a fair distribution of influence? • How much resistance within the group will there be to the decision? • How involved are stakeholders in framing the issues and the options involved? • Are the benefits, the pitfalls and the consequences of each option clearly understood?

  9. The case of the contentious condo dispute

  10. Break out groups: Based on what we’ve heard so far, what are some of the opportunities and possibilities Ethelo offers our field of practice? Do you see ways you could use this tool in your own work with groups? What are some of the challenges you see in this technology? Concerns? Questions?

  11. Ethelo is for anyone who will benefit from group participation in and support for a particular decision… • Multi-party decisions • Stakeholder groups • Union groups • Governments • Developers • Contract negotiations • Board meetings • Market testing • Focus groups • Public consultations

  12. Current clients include: • Property management companies • Official community planning • Credit union member engagement

  13. Ethelo steps: • BREAK a decision into sub-issues • RANK the importance of each issue • RATE their support for the different options for each issue

  14. How to set up your decision

  15. We’d love to hear your feedback • What are some of the challenges you experience in helping a small or large group to a decision that is robust, fair, well supported?  • What are some aspects of this tool that you would like more info on?  How might you use it in the work you do? • What applications can you think of for this kind of collaborative decision making software? • Who else should we be talking to?

  16. NCDD Beta partner invitation Help us shape and improve Ethelo: • make suggestions • report bugs, • ask for new features, • share tips and tricks, • or join the BETA Community’s chats and discussions. Ethelo will be free for the duration of the BETA program and when it ends you will be entitled to a special discount off a paid subscription, as a thank you for your participation.

  17. Ethelo supports better deliberation and better decisions • Uses the principle of deliberation—naming and framing issues in ways that are meaningful, accessible and relevant to all stakeholders • De-polarizes contentious issues • Gives decision makers a clear path forward • Analyzes vast amounts of complex data • Provides a more granular, more nuanced analysis of issues

  18. Ethelo offers a decision making process that is • Inclusive and fair • Scalable • Transparent • Flexible

  19. The Ethelo process… • Brings diverse stakeholders together to identify the question they need to answer together. • Identifies the issues, associated options and underlying values • Allows people to rank importance of each issue and weight their support for each option.

  20. Ethelo uses a friendly platform…

  21. Majority vote vs Ethelo

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