Civic Intelligence and Grassroots Technology

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The template for the basic "perspective" chapter follows this paragraph. The original template (possibly revised) is in Introduction_to_Section_II. (After the chapter is further along — and the template structure is more-or-less finalized, we can remove this extra verbiage.)

The basic Plan has four parts:

(1) A Introduction to the perspective


(2) One or more case studies that show different facets of this perspective. Our decision was, as much as it's possible, not to artificially separate thinking and doing. At the same time we do want to present a variety of approaches, some of which will be better suited for think-work and some will be better suited for action (that plays out in the "real" (or material?) world.

Non Proprietary Civic Collaboration

Cooperative interaction with knowledge and information is central to civic development. The mechanisms by which they are constructed and delivered guide societies socioeconomic and cultural direction. It is therefore critical that complex democracies seek non-market, non-proprietary means of communication and deliberative problem solving. House, G. (2011) Posted by House


(3) Conclusions


(4) Finally, a section that includes text book like end-of-chapter exercises, questions for the student, suggested activities, etc.


Are we talking only about grassroots technology here? I think I can think of cases that we'd want to talk about that weren't grassroots... ?