When: 3-6 PM, Thursday, April 19th
Where: Lesley Dan Pharmacy Building (144 College, at University Ave., Queen's Park subway station), Room 310
The New Democracy Workshop invites the community to take part in
Three Dialogues on Democracy. Each talk will last 30 minutes, followed
by a half hour moderated discussion.
All are welcome to attend any part of this event.
Dialogue 1 ( 3PM): "Collaborative Diagnostics: A Dialogue between
Specific Cases and the Health Care System". How medical procedure aimed
at directing decisions about therapy should explicitly consider all
those concerned and how trends in the health care system to recognize
patient autonomy and the shared responsibility for optimal care may
allow such an approach to emerge. Professor Pennefather will argue that
when collaborative health care team procedures and personal care
records within the health care system become more transparent, the
prospects for a more participatory dialogue in health care will be
enhanced. Professor Peter Pennefather, Academic Director, Laboratory of
Collaborative Diagnostics & Professor, Lesley Dan Faculty of
Pharmacy. Moderator: West Suhanic, PhD
Dialogue 2 (4PM): "Innovations in Dialogue - Practices and principles for e-Dialogue." Peter shares current thinking in dialogue practice, including applications and concerns with "e-dialogue" approaches. He presents the approach of structured dialogue, a method for democratic, consensus-based dialogic design based on social science and collaborative cognition. Peter presents a case for moving dialogue beyond the Understanding phase ("just listening"), illustrating the necessity for a democratic approach to social system design and action based on dialogue, using cases drawn from the structured dialogue approach. In conclusion, he will argue for a commitment to democratic process when collaboratively designing authentic dialogue. Peter Jones, Dialogic Design International. Moderator: Wayne Chu, PhD candidate, Political Science, U of Toronto
Dialogue 3 (5PM): "From eGovernment to eDemocracy: Assessing the
prospects for meaningful political engagement in Canada" Beginning with
a brief survey of Canada's achievements in e-government, Dr Jeffrey
will then propose a model for e-democracy. She will illustrate her
arguments with an assessment of two e-dialogues on policy matters that
she produced with her team, the CRTC's New Media Forum (1998), and the
panCanadian Foreign Policy e-Dialogue (2003). In conclusion she will
argue that Canada's focus on e-government has occluded e-democracy, and
that innovation in this e-governance space has now passed from the
federal/national to the sub-federal and international levels.
Dr Liss Jeffrey, McLuhan Global Research Network, founding director eCommons/agora electronique and byDesign eLab.
Moderator: Robert Rodbourne, Managing Editor, Netizen News.
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