KerDST: THE KERBABEL™ ON-LINE DELIBERATION SUPPORT TOOL

The KERDST is an on-line tool, developed with ‘Open Source’ conventions, offering to users a multi-stakeholder multi-criteria deliberation framework that can be applied to any situation of choice or debate.
The construction of a multi-stakeholder multi-criteria deliberation framework involves the mobilisation of two main types of information, descriptive and normative. These are the requirements for:
1. REPRESENTING THE SITUATION (or, more generally, the set of situations considered as sites) and its possible evolution (via, we presume, a set of choices or scenarios) and,
2. MAKING JUDGEMENTS about the present and eventual future situation(s), with reference to a spectrum of stakeholders and performance issues.
For further information : http://kerdst.c3ed.uvsq.fr