An introduction to the KerDST™ Deliberation Support Tool

 

The KerDSTTM is an online tool developed with opensource conventions, offering to users a multi-stakeholder mulit-criteria deliberation framework that can be applied to any situation of choice or debate.

The construction of a multi-stakeholder multi-crteria deliberation framework involves the mobilisation of two main types of information: descriptive and normative. These are the requirement for:

  • Representing the situation and its possible evolution (via, we presume, a set of choices or scenarios) and,
  • Making judgements about the present and eventual future situation(s) , with reference to a spectrum of stakeholders and performance issues.
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