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'''Rules and Requirements'''
 
'''Rules and Requirements'''
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  To facilitate a dotmocracy session and promotes useful results, the following rules and requirements should be followed.
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  In order to make a dotmocracy session as fair and useful as possible, dotmocracy facilitators should follow these rules:
  
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#Dotmocracy facilitators are authoritative and responsible for the process but neutral on the content.
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#being neutral on the content;
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Each participant may only fill one dot per a Dotmocracy sheet.
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#each participant should only fill one dot per sheet;
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Participants must sign each sheet that they dot.
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#participants may dot as many sheets as they want;
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Participants may dot as many or as few sheets as they please.
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#participants can also contribute anonymously;
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Participants have the option to contribute anonymously.
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#ideas shouldn't be changed once dotting has started;
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There are no changes to an idea's text inside the idea box once dotting has started.
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#participants can post new ideas in any time of the process. <ref> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotmocracy Wikipedia] (29 May 2009) </ref>}}
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Participants are always invited to post new ideas.
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A Dotmocracy sheet should only be removed from the dotting process according to the official facilitators' judgment.
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Required Posted Information
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For each Dotmocracy session the following information should be posted for all participants to easily see:
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'''The basic process instructions'''.
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Start and end times.
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The question(s) to be addressed.
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Preamble and references to related information materials.
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A statement on how the results will be used by the hosting group.
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The hosting group's name and contact information.
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The facilitator(s) name and contact information.
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If a facilitator fails to follow these rules or post this information, that's not cool.  The design of the Advanced Dotmocracy sheets in combination with these rules and requirements have been refined and published to help facilitators produce a reliable large group decision-making process and to give participants assurance that there time and ideas will be collected and prioritized in a fair and constructive manner. <ref> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotmocracy Wikipedia] (29 May 2009) </ref>}}
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Revision as of 11:39, 2 June 2009

Term2.png DOTMOCRACY
An established facilitation method for prioritizing ideas among a number of people. In this process participants put dots (usually using stickers) next to written ideas to express their preferences.

Dotmocracy is similar to other facilitation techniques such as "multi-voting", “dot-voting”, “sticky-dot voting” and “sticker voting”, although there are quite important differences between "advanced dotmocracy" and traditional dot voting methods, since advanced dotmocracy should be more efficient in providing the gratest opportunity for identiying the answer with the highest possible level of agreement.

Dotmocracy can be helpful for:

  1. recognizing priorities from all participants (even from the most quite and shy);
  2. empowering the group;
  3. finding solutions to a problem while avoiding power dynamics;
  4. providing results about the group's collective preferences;
  5. support friendly discussions that can easily lead to practical conclusions.


Rules and Requirements 

In order to make a dotmocracy session as fair and useful as possible, dotmocracy facilitators should follow these rules:
  1. being neutral on the content;
  2. each participant should only fill one dot per sheet;
  3. participants may dot as many sheets as they want;
  4. participants can also contribute anonymously;
  5. ideas shouldn't be changed once dotting has started;
  6. participants can post new ideas in any time of the process. [1]


Link icon.png Web Resources
Below you have a list of selected websites where you can find additional informations on Dotmocracy process:
Link Content
www.dotmocracy.org/steps Instructions for dotmocracy process step by step.
www.dotmocracy.org Comparison chart between advanced dotmocracy and traditional dot-voting.


References

  1. ↑ Wikipedia (29 May 2009)
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