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Dotmocracy

Dotmocracy. By Clarissa Gibson. Outline. Definition of Dotmocracy What can Dotmocracy activities help do ? How does Dotmocracy work ? What are the Rules and Requirements ? Case Study and Conclusion. What is Dotmocracy ?.

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Dotmocracy

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  1. Dotmocracy By Clarissa Gibson

  2. Outline • Definition of Dotmocracy • What can Dotmocracy activities help do? • How does Dotmocracy work? • What are the Rules and Requirements? • Case Study and Conclusion

  3. What is Dotmocracy? • Dotmocracy is a transparent, equal opportunity, and participatory large group decision-making tool. http://kaileamac.wordpress.com/

  4. What can Dotmocracy do? • Used in large meetings, conferences and forums, feedback outside meetings • Recognize collective priorities and direction from all participants • Engage and empower diverse groups of people • Recognize agreement on unique and specific ideas, as well as general and thematic ideas

  5. What can Dotmocracy do? • Give an equal voice to even the quietest of participants • Help avoid verbal debates and “soap box” style speech-making • Support friendly discussions while efficiently leading to participial conclusions • Provide full documented results that can be easily turned into action plans

  6. How does Dotmocracy Work? • 1. Learn about the topic/issue • 2. Present the topic/issue and questions • 3. Discuss potential answers • 4. Write ideas on Dotmocracy sheets • 5. Fill dots to record opinions. Write Comment • 6. Report the results • 7. Announce a decision

  7. How does Dotmocracy Work? From the 2009 Canadian Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation

  8. What are the Rules and Requirments? • Dotmocracy facilitator must remain neutral on the sessions material • Each contributor may only fill in one dot per Dot sheet • Contributors must sign each sheet they dot • Contributors may dot as many or as few sheets as they please during the session • Contributors have the right to keep their dotting choices and comments anonymous • Dotmocracy sheets can only be removed by the facilitator

  9. What are the Rules and Requirements? • Each session needs to have the following surrounding the Dotmocracy Sheet area • Basic process instructions • References and preamble to any related info • Questions to be addressed • An explanation of where and when a copy of the complete results will be reported • Statement describing how the results will be used by the organization/community etc. • Organizations name and contact info • Facilitator’s name and contact info

  10. Who uses Dotmocracy? • Community Organizer • Stakeholder Engagement Consultants • Government Representatives • Human Resource Professionals • Teachers • Elementary Principal • Knowledge Sharing Specialist • Adult Literacy Instructor • Faculty Director (V –BC) • "Dotmocracy was an incredibly effective, participatory method to have workers identify workplace problems and then specific solutions..." • Bruce P. Bernard, M.D., M.P.H.Chief Medical Officer, Health Hazard Evaluations and Technical Assistance, CDC/NIOSHCincinnati, Ohio, USA

  11. Case Study? • BikeCamp TO 2009 http://dotmocracy.org/case_studies/bikecampto2009

  12. Conclusion • Strengths • Allows all to participate • Equal voice • Weaknesses • Participants may not follow the rules and place more than one dot on a sheet • Dotmocracy Fads? • Questions?

  13. Reference • Pic 1 and 4 taken from http://dotmocracy.org/galleries • Pic 3 taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotmocracy • Pic 2 taken from http://kaileamac.wordpress.com/ • Jason Diceman. 2010. Dotmocracyretreaved on Feb. 26, 2011 from http://dotmocracy.org/ • Wikipedia. 2011. Dotmocracy retrieved on Feb 26, 2011 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotmocracy • Shawn Callahan, 2005. The problems with a dotmocracy. Retrieved on Feb, 28,2011 from http://www.anecdote.com.au/archives/2005/08/the_problems_wi.html

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