Terry - Interested in providing a means for helping the public get informed. Once that happens, the D&D community can play a role more effectively. Common problem is that Public Policy results and Law is made and the politicians don't care about the blowback. Pure expansion of D&D can not tackle these political problems.
Stephanie - Focussed more on capacity building side and the political process is also important.
Bruce - holistic processing - tools - political concerns are all tied together - TED talk about sorting technical images - SO holistic processing model is needed. Otherwise we're buried alive in overload - we need a vast bandwidth capacity to pull things together otherwise we're still separates not pulling together.
Terry - models controversy - let's them deal with topics without limits to the dimensions they bring up -
Bruce - people's congress - on a national scale - all the independent variables that can pull them together - need to combine the philosophical and the practical and the technological
The collaborative
D&D is a religion of relationships - D&D as a strange attractor.