I'm actually pitching a similar idea to a major corporation. Here is a reading list if you are interested in the subject. There have been (at least) four confe

I'm actually pitching a similar idea to a major corporation. Here is a reading list if you are interested in the subject. There have been (at least) four conferences on the subject of online deliberation. https://www.loomio.org/ https://www.loomio.org/ http://wikis.evergreen.edu/civicintelligence/index.php/ELiberate http://wikis.evergreen.edu/civicintelligence/index.php/ELibe... http://odbook.stanford.edu/static/filedocument/2009/11/15/Chapter_26._Schuler.pdf http://odbook.stanford.edu/static/filedocument/2009/11/15/Ch... http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ncn/ http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ncn/ http://online-deliberation.net/ http://online-deliberation.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_deliberation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_deliberation http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1342861&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D1342861 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=134286... http://www.virtualagora.org/ http://www.virtualagora.org/ http://parliament.sourceforge.net/ftf-paper.pdf http://parliament.sourceforge.net/ftf-paper.pdf Parliament: A Module for Parliamentary Procedure Software http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/IS/archive/henry/RobertReport.pdf http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/IS/archive/henry/RobertReport.pdf Prakken, Henry. 1998. Formalizing robert’s rules of order: An experiment in automating mediation of group decision making. Tech. Rep. REP-FIT-1998-12, GMD.