Approach

Building a new public sphere

Sopinspace brings the best of Internet technology and social processes to fuel new public debate, participatory democracy and collaborative applications. We hope to help building a public sphere that enriches democratic decision making and collaborative activities. We bring to our customers:

• our technological know-how for the development of innovative Web 2.0 services and the integration of free software solutions for co-operative Web sites,
• organisation methods for debate and co-operation processes, which we adapt to each domain (stakeholders, topics, types of data and documents).

Our objectives are:

• to make possible for all citizens, in full respect of their diversity of opinions, to build and express their views in quality debates,
• to provide decision makers with reliable input on the landscape or arguments, preferences, positions and options, as to enable better public policy or organisation/company strategy choices.

We are particular committed to the transfer of competence towards our customers (organisers of debate or collaborative processes) and towards end-users. We provide editorial, facilitation and support services for the full-life cycle of applications that we develop.