The de Borda Institute is pleased to announce
a new facilitation package called ‘Decision-maker’.
The software will facilitate any group, from local committee
to national parliament or full electorate, to take a collective
decision on any issue, no matter how controversial.
Decision-Maker can facilitate a multi-option
debate up to a maximum number of 14 options.
For example, it can be used to develop a ballot
paper, on which voters are asked to vote according to their
preferences (giving a 1 to the option they like the most,
a 2 to their next favourite, a 3 to their third choice, and
so on, as they wish.
Once the votes have been entered Decision-Maker
will present a display of the results of that vote according
to eight different counting procedures:
a. majority/voting (as used in most
parliaments and most referendums),
b. plurality voting (as used in some
referendums, as for example in Finland ),
two-round voting (as used in some referendums,
as for example in New Zealand ),
alternative (or single transferable) vote
(as used as an electoral system in Australia ),
approval vote (as used as an electoral
system in the United Nations),
Borda count (as used as part of an
electoral system in Austria ),
modified Borda count (or Borda preferendum)
{the above Borda count with the added facility of partial
voting},
serial voting (as used in the Swedish
parliament), and
Condorcet count {which also incorporates
partial voting}.
Updates Decision-Maker can also be used as an electoral system.
A new version of the software is currently in development
with new tools devoted specifically to electoral systems and
also for work on the matrix vote, (the voting system used
when electing a proportional and power-sharing executive).
All purchasers of the current software will
be entitled to receive free up-dated versions of the CD when
they become available.
Purchase
Decision-Maker will be soon be available for trial on this
site in a ‘read-only’ capacity, but the CD itself
with manuals is available at a cost of €40 or UK£25
for individuals, and €160 or UK£100 for institutions.
Please send your cheques made payable to the ‘Deborda
Institute’ to the following address:
Peter Emerson,
The de Borda Institute,
36 Ballysillan Road, Belfast BT14 7QQ, Northern Ireland
Telephone: +44 (0)28 9071 1795
Facsimile: +44 (0)28 9071 1795
OurKingdom, the new economics foundation and the de Borda Institute recently gave interested parties from think tanks, research groups and campaigning organisations, and members of the general public, the opportunity to participate in an online trial of consensus decision making.
The de Borda Institute and nef (the new economics foundation) have received a grant from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to test the potential of consensus voting More...
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