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Participatory Democracy Software download

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Sounds interesting, from Ken Bausch, who has links to the International Society for the Systems Sciences:

“To honor the life of Hasan Ozbekhan, his role in establishing the Club of Rome, and his influence upon a generation of peace and sustainability professionals, the Institute for 21st Century Agoras is launching a Participatory Democracy Software program offering a sociotechnological tool that enables the practice of democracy.

“The Institute has received a gift of 1000 end-user licenses for CogniScope 1, the commercial grade collaborative planning software used worldwide by the CWA ltd consulting group. The use of this tool has been extensively documented in the recent book: How People Harness their Collective Wisdom and Power to Construct the Future (Information Age press) www.harnessingcollectivewisdom.com.

“The Participatory Democracy software along with a user manual can be downloaded from the Agora’s wiki, http://blogora.net by clicking the URLs on the blogora homepage. The Institute will support communities of practice through a users’ discussion page on this same site, and through various other methods.”

Junior doctor’s system ditched

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When I saw the junior doctor’s protest outside Regent’s Park a few weeks ago and thought later, “woo”, the first demo against an online form I’ve come across, this is a digital age after all. Even more amazing the politicians have now listened and gone ahead and ditched it:

“The controversial system used to match junior doctors to specialist training posts has been shelved by ministers.

“Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt said that after the first round of recruitment, the system would only fulfill a monitoring role. Instead, the recruitment process will be handled at a local level by medical deaneries.

“Doctors had complained the system was profoundly flawed, and that many juniors had been unfairly treated…It also emerged that the MTAS website had been the subject of two security breaches.”

PS: Oops, now the head of the BMA has just resigned (20 May).