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Category: Process

Informedness

The extent to which those making decisions understand the information critical to making that decision.

To what extent:

Do participants gain critical context about tradeoffs and consequences of different decisions?
Is this sourced from:
1. Experts?
2. The existing authorities, who may have extensive context?
3. A broad diversity of constituents?
4. The most impacted stakeholders?
5. The powerful stakeholders, whose incentives are critical to having the decision “stick”?

Related Capabilities

Curate context

Ability to provide complete context to participants, including things like background information, subject matter fundamentals, relevant considerations, tradeoffs, and possible options.

Activate learning

Urgent Informedness

Ability for diverse participants to efficiently and effectively learn relevant information, such that they can actively apply their learnings in the process.

Enumerate scenarios

Urgent Informedness

Ability to generate lists of likely scenarios, including edge cases, in which decisions will be applied, to help participants better understand the issue space.

Forecast impacts

Urgent Informedness

Ability to effectively and easily model complex systems, to help participants understand the potential impacts of different decisions.

Routing and synthesizing

Ability to route and synthesize data, revealing critical information, e.g. identifying common ground, high-potential ideas, thoughtful perspectives, insightful experiences, cruxes, forecasts, while helping to minimize the time required to do tasks.

Integrate wider-public

Ability to provide those not in the room deliberating with opportunities to constructively and fairly contribute input into the process.

Evaluate claims

Ability for participants to evaluate claims made during the process by any actor or source.

Related Product gaps

Context Mapper

Tool automatically generates comprehensive context analysis, process planning inputs, and accessible participant briefing materials with visual aids by processing uploaded information (PDFs, transcripts, emails, recordings) and conducting interviews with stakeholders.

Decision Impact Forecasting and Modeling

Interface where participants input policy proposals and receive impact models, showing effects on both targeted and related outcomes with confidence intervals, assumptions, and interactive exploration capabilities.

Multimodal Tailored Learning Support

Tool that helps participants understand context and information for deliberative processes through multiple formats (text, audio, video, VR, games), adapting to individual learning styles and measuring understanding non-intrusively.

Opinion Mapper

Tool that connects to recording devices and data sources to instantly analyze participant contributions, creating real-time visualizations of views, consensus areas, and divisions on any topic throughout deliberative processes.