Cogniscope
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Cogniscope is a specialized software that facilitates the implementation of Structured Democratic Dialogues. It was developed in the 80s by Aleco Christakis team through a company called CWA (Leading Design International). Cogniscope has been upgraded to its current Cogniscope v3 by Ekkotek Ltd..
Between June 18-July 1, 2010, pioneers of the Institute for 21st Century Agoras participated in a series of sessions of a virtual SDDP co-Laboratory with the Triggering Question: "In anticipation of the evolution of the Internet and other interactive technology platforms (social networks etc...) what should be the requirements for the next generation of Cogniscope/ Webscope software (CSIII) for the enhanced and scaled-up practice of SDD? The results are documented in SDDP Design of the next generation Cogniscope/Webscope.
In 2012, Aleco Christakis donated the code and rights to Future Worlds Center. Many of the features that ended up at the root of the MAP, were used as requirements for the development of Cogniscope v.3. A number of programmers are credited with the development, mainly Savia Christou and Eleni Philippou but also between 2010-2012, Antonis Loizou and Lawrence Kalogreades.
Cogniscope v.3 has been released with life-time unlimited license to the participants of the 2010 SDDP. Single and multiple professional licenses are sold by Ekkotek LTD.. Free version are available for educators (limited functionalities) and unregistered SDDP Facilitators (limited time).