New Agora and Structured Desigh Dialogue Porcess

Agora is a physical setting for solving complex problems. Structured design dialogue process SDDP is a facilitated section which uses geometry for languaging more persuasive and compelling facts to the majority of stakeholders by preventing Spreadthink and Groupthink to ensure quality decisions and consensus. The architecture of the SDDP consists of seven functional models; methods for building consensus, language patterns, application time phases, key role responsibilities, stages of interactive inquiry, collaborative software and facility and dialog laws. SDDP uses different methods for building consensus among groups during a complex problem. The consensus methods include the nominal group technique, interpretive structural modeling, Delphi, Options field, options profile, and trade off analysis. The language patterns help to develop the communication needed to support participants to collectively come to a decision or consensus without allowing influential individuals to influence the group (Schreibman & Christakis,2007).

To use SDDP to analyze Smart traffic control systems (STCS) there will be the need to develop a communication model to help stakeholders make informed judgment about the feasibility, functionality and usefulness of the innovation. All the seven models in SDDP architecture as mentioned above should be applied to generate dialogue among selected expert on vehicular traffic control in a facilitated section. Such a dialogue should be supported by computer aided software to stimulate and synthesizes ideas. The rounds of facilitated sections will be performed using triggering questions to inquire the knowledge of experts on traffic control concepts, social and culture pressures impact the success of the STCS, cyber related technologies on sensors and mobile network and communications (Schreibman & Christakis,2007). How does the SDP support planning for innovation and change? For SDP to support the planning process of the smart traffic control systems innovation, the following steps needs to be followed; defining the a model which describes the STCS concepts, performing inquiring using triggering questions, clarifying meanings to ensure uniform understanding, cluster ideas inductively, voting and ranking, synthesizing and interpretation of saturated ideas, lessons learned (Schreibman & Christakis,2007) Reference Schreibman, V & Christakis, A. N(2007) New Agora: New Geometry of Languaging And New Technology of Democracy: The Structured Design Dialogue Process. Retrieved from http://www.harnessingcollectivewisdom.com/pdf/newagora.pdf