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Carnegie Mellon Heinz School Policy Management Information Technology
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Deliberative Democracy

Carnegie Mellon brought together some of the nation's leading experts in using the Internet to promote democracy and citizenship for a seminar on June 19-21.

The seminar, Developing and Using Online Tools for Deliberative Democracy, was sponsored by the university's Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society (InSITeS) and the Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics (CAAE). These groups partner to develop software that enables citizens to use the Internet to learn about, discuss and act on community issues.

The purpose of the seminar was to spark discussions among leading theorists and developers of deliberative democracy software about creating new tools for interactive citizenship. The seminar grew out of a Carnegie Mellon deliberative democracy project funded by a $2.1 million National Science Foundation grant.

For more information about the conference, go to http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/style/Seminar.html.