The Dotmocracy Handbook provides a unique set of easy-to-follow instructions for finding useful agreements among many people. At its core is the deceptively simple Dotmocracy sheet, designed to provide participants with equal opportunity to contribute to a reliable and transparent large group decision-making process. From grade school students to technical professionals, grassroots organizations to government institutions and private corporations, Dotmocracy has universal appeal and application.
Jason Diceman is a Senior Public Consultation Coordinator with the City of Toronto.
Jason empowers organizations by facilitating constructive public consultation, effective large group deliberation and participatory decision-making. He leads the planning and implementation of large multi-stakeholder collaborative meetings that lead to clear outputs and the design and management of affordable and productive community engagement processes. He also specializes in the selection and set-up of easy to use Internet tools for interactive mass communication.
Along with having insight into many engagement methodologies, Jason has created his own innovative paper based Dotmocracy materials and techniques for efficiently finding agreements among large numbers of people in a variety of face-to-face and out of meeting environments.
Jason has presented workshops across Canada and the USA, researched consensus cultures in eco-villages in Denmark and spent six months in Venezuela investigating their evolving participatory democracy.
