Collaborative decision-making made easy with technology Vivien Maidaborn Ben Knight

Collaborative decision-making made easy with technologyVivien MaidabornBen Knight

Overview

• Where we’ve come from

• Collaboration in your context

• Loomio and what it offers

• What makes groups successful

• What are the projects here right now that are urgent, important, and need Loomio!

Social justice

Hecate Women's Health Collective 1978 to CCS Disability Action 2011

Collaboration

• a deep, collective, determination to achieve a common goal

• by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus.

Loomio is an online platform for collective decision-making

connecting people within and across organisations, overcoming geographic distance and polarised points of view

disrupting positional authority so everyone has a voice

many people can talk at once and still be heard

Groups who succeed with Loomio beta:

• have an urgent need to collaborate• are overcoming a problem with distance,

numbers or time• are self motivating and self directed• have technical confidence • focus on a project, decision, or immediate

problem, • have a champion driving them forward

Imagine...

• engaging your staff in critical organisational change

• a nationally distributed team being able to connect, decide and act without getting together

• productive multi-stakeholder collaboration and decision-making online

• participation in decision-making as a part of daily life, like checking your e-mail every morning

www.loomio.orgvivien@loomio.orgben@loomio.org