The Cairns Project: Connecting the Community of Democracy Practice

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The Cairns ProjectConnecting the Community of
Democracy Practice

• Prof. Beth Simone Noveck, Director
• Patrick Dwyer, Lead Architect
• Democracy Design Workshop
• New York Law School

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160,000 people in 612 groups about democracy
MeetUp.com Over 1 million people 4,000 topics
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Friendster Social Networking for social change
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Sim-City Finland simulates citizen
participation in urban planning and informs
citizens about the difficult choices involved in
political decision making
Tampere, Finland Urban Planning Game
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Cairns is a visual questionnaire designed to
describe the work of a group
See related projects as you build your own
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Questions address the groups methods, tools and
structures
Select a rock to choose a question
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New answers can be proposed
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Cairns provides a map of the project Red key
stones a those factors integral to success
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Select among questions and answers to navigate
the Cairns community
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The Cairns Visualizer allows you to search the
community based on any question or answer in the
database
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http//www.cairnsproject.org
bnoveck_at_nyls.edu
http//www.nyls.edu/cairns