Hans Hagedorn
Berlin, Germany
Zebralog

Biography:

Hans Hagedorn studied at the Universities of Dortmund (D), Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) and Kumasi (Ghana) and finished as an engineer of town planning (dipl.-ing. raumplanung). His first mentor in the field of conflict resolution was Jens Stachowitz, mediator and consultant in the public sector. After a year of scientific research at the University of Dortmund, Hans worked for 2 years as a junior consultant for the hammerbacher gmbh in Osnabrück, with a focus on group moderation and facilitation of civil society dialogues. After that Hans moved to Berlin, where he coordinated the Internet Portal department of City & Bits for 2 years. Since December 2003 he works as CEO and project coordinator for Zebralog.

Zebralog is a not-for-profit organization that supports modern democratic decision making through the use of interactive media. Zebralog offers every service that is needed to run online dialogues: institutional embedding, marketing, technical backbone and moderation. Its members have a strong background in participatory planning processes, social science and face-to-face moderation. In Germany, they were among the first to conduct online consultations for various state bodies, among them the government of Berlin, Hamburg and the South German City of Esslingen.

What's a recent movie you've seen and enjoyed and why?

"Höllentour", a documentary about the Tour de France. It shows the beauty and the nonsense of the top bicycle race in the world from the perspective of the T-Mobile Team.

2-3 questions or issues that you hope we'll address at the "Deepening Online Deliberation" meeting?

Thinking 20 years ahead -- what will be the topics for deliberation? Will there be a demand for global deliberation? And what will be the role of media-transmitted deliberation?

How do we get there, starting today?

How can we share more expert knowledge about online-deliberation technology and methodology on the international level?