Debate Hub is an open, online, collaborative tool to support collective ideation, deliberation and democratic decision making. It allows you to set up staged online challenges/debates, that can be launched and addressed in the following way: users can collectively propose new ideas to tackle open challenges/debates; they can discuss and argument in favour or against the proposed ideas; they can then reduce and select the most promising ideas by building on the analysis of the arguments raised in favour and against each idea; they can finally vote for the most promising ideas that are worth pursuing further. keep reading
Debate Hub has a very simple User Interface, which may look like a common web forum, but is enhanced by a semantic data model. This allows a better informed idea selection support as well as the development of advanced analytics on your group, debate and challenge data, which are delivered to you with a visualisation dashboard.
Debate Hub also has moderator features (such as idea merging, splitting and moving) to help reducing idea duplication in online discussion, which is one of the main weaknesses of existing online ideation and debate platforms.
At present Debate Hub has 500 users, from 6 countries, 40 community groups and 100 debates. Users indicate that Debate Hub is a very useful platform in supporting and effectively managing collaborative decision-making.
