Presentation draft

About the speaker

A.k.a. Tabisuke
Independent researcher
Tokyo, Japan

Table of contents

1. The essence of parliamentary principles

Freedom  ---- Efficiency

(x) central control (o) autonomous distributed control

2. Examples of parliamentary rules – traditional / for wiki

Motion
Second
Debate
Vote

3. Vote

A variety of votes – decision making
  Silence (no objection)
  Voice vote
  Majority vote
  Special majority vote
  Unanimous consent

  Low cost --- High cost
  Low importance -- important

Who should be a voter ?
  Committer
  Everyone
  Those who interested, e.g., those who edited the doc three times

4. Second

What is the object of seconding ?

5. Motion

Which motion first ?

6. Debate

How to (effectively) debate ?
  Motion centered
  Pro/con switching
  Restrict frequent speech by one participant
  Visualize positions – pro/con/neither

7. Structuring policy debate and decision making

Separate out the facts and the values (weighting/prioritizing)
Pursuit consensus on the facts 
Explicit confrontation and pursuit consensus on the values
Vote + Calculation

8. A wikiparliament “maturity model”

Level 1: Introduce seconding for editing
Level 2: Support drafting and publishing cycle with motion
Level 3: Support voting
Level 4: Support debating
Level 5: Implement structural decision making  

9. Debate !

Pro/con ?
Suitable/unsuitable use case ?
Modification ?