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Published on: 10/18/2007
Last Visited: 9/30/2009
Doug Walton
The founder and chief editor of this site (and currently the webmaster) is Douglas C. Walton.
Doug holds an M.S. and a Ph. D. degree in Organizational Systems and a B.S. in Applied Economics.
He is president of the International Systems Institute and a part-time professor at the Saybrook Graduate School.
He has over twenty years of experience in computers and telecommunications, with recent emphasis on the design of web systems for knowledge management and collaboration.
His dissertation, An Evolutionary Systems Model for Using the Internet to Facilitate Democratic Inquiry among Distributed Design Communities, is available at Proquest.
He has published several articles in systems journals, including the following:
Is Modern Information Technology Enabling the Evolution of a More Direct Democracy?
Revitalizing the Public Sphere: The Current System of Discourse and the Need for the Participative Design of Social Action
Doug also contributed to a chapter in the just-released Dialogue as a Collective Means of Design Conversation.
To contact Doug, send email to doug@networkeddemocracy.com