Ward, Margaret and Ellen Finlay

work for Democratic Dialogue. Together with Patricia Donald of the Women's Resource and Development Agency, they have been testing the suitability of GroupSystems software in supporting community discussions. The software was designed to help teams of managers or engineers in private sector decision-making. It has been lent to Democratic Dialogue to see if it can be used by people who do not have a boss to force them to co-operate. http://www.democraticdialogue.org/