HiveMind
What is HiveMind?
Welcome to HiveMind - Scoop's new public engagement platform. HiveMind is an experiment including our readers in co-creating a more participatory and interactive public media conversation.
We believe online public engagement tools can help groups of people interested in an issue to find new points of commonality and novel solutions to complex societal problems. Such problems require broad-based and inclusive debate and decision making.
It's all too easy for us to remain stuck in polarised worldviews or our social media bubbles. HiveMind seeks to get beyond these echo chambers and to allow people to:
- Engage in a meaningful process
- Learn from other perspectives
- Identify common ground in disparate viewpoints
- Create potentially innovative and practical solutions to real world issues
HiveMind uses Pol.is - an online tool for collecting open-ended feedback from large groups of people. Through a HiveMind exploration you can voice your opinion about a story or issue, and can also agree and disagree with what others are saying, one statement at a time. New statements go through a moderation process and then are added so that participants can vote on them.
Pol.is runs statistical analysis on these voting patterns in real-time. It produces opinion groups and surfaces the comments that brought each group together. It also identifies comments that found broad consensus among participants.
Read more about HiveMind here.
HiveMind - Latest News [Page 1]
HiveMind Report: Medical Cannabis In Aotearoa
Thursday, 21 September 2017, 5:16 am | Hivemind
Medical Cannabis is a complex and often polarising issue. However, it was highly encouraging that there were some very strong areas of consensus among the 133 participants in this HiveMind exploration. It appears that a clear majority of respondents to ... More >>
HiveMind Report – A Universal Basic Income for Aotearoa NZ
Thursday, 14 September 2017, 1:41 am | Hivemind
UBI is a complicated issue. There were a wide range of opinions and views represented in this HiveMind discussion and it appears there is still uncertainty regarding certain aspects of UBI policy. However, it was encouraging that there were some clear points ... More >>
Medical Cannabis - Co-creating a Policy for Aotearoa
Thursday, 7 September 2017, 11:05 am | HiveMind
Welcome to the fourth and final HiveMind for Scoop’s Opening the Election campaign for 2017. This HiveMind explores the question: what would a fair, humane and safe Medical Cannabis policy look like for Aotearoa, NZ in 2018? More >>
BINZ Proposal Sets Out 4 Steps To Progress a UBI in NZ
Thursday, 24 August 2017, 9:44 pm | Hivemind
Basic Income New Zealand have researched four steps towards a comprehensive universal basic income for consideration and comment. These four steps represent well researched, tangible and realistic actions that any government could take in the upcoming term ... More >>
HiveMind Report: Consensus Found On Key Water Quality Issues
Saturday, 19 August 2017, 2:13 am | Hivemind
Thankyou to all who contributed to our HiveMind Consultation on 'Water Quality' in July and August 2017. It is clear that there was a consensus amongst the 117 New Zealanders participating in this exercise around a number of important aspects of ... More >>
HiveMind: Universal Basic Income - Are we up for it?
Monday, 14 August 2017, 8:55 am | HiveMind
In collaboration with Basic Income New Zealand, Scoop invites you to participate in the third Opening the Election HiveMind exploration for 2017 on Universal Basic Income. More >>
What New Zealanders Think About Affordable Housing
Tuesday, 1 August 2017, 10:13 am | Scoop Media and Public Engagement Projects
Scoop Media and Public Engagement Projects (PEP) are pleased to report findings from the HiveMind project on affordable housing. More >>
Freshwater HiveMind Enters Week 2 – New Statements Added
Thursday, 27 July 2017, 6:03 am | Hivemind
After only one week we have already had almost 60 people take part in our HiveMind consultation on the issue of freshwater quality in NZ . The participants have cast a total of 1663 votes on existing statements and suggested a number of new statements ... More >>
Opening the Election HiveMind: Freshwater Quality
Wednesday, 19 July 2017, 2:19 pm | HiveMind
Welcome to Scoop’s second Opening the Election HiveMind exploration for 2017 “How can we ensure we have healthy and sustainable water in New Zealand now and in the future?” More >>
Making housing affordable – let’s crack it
Thursday, 15 June 2017, 11:25 am | HiveMind
Making housing affordable – let’s crack it. Welcome to our second interactive HiveMind exploration on the topic of housing affordability. This is an opportunity for you to think about and share your perspectives on this issue and what, if anything, ... More >>
No Sugar Coating - NZers Want Stronger Action on Sugar
Thursday, 16 March 2017, 4:30 pm | Hivemind
Over December 2016 and January 2017, Scoop hosted a trial community engagement exercise on the issue of Sugar and Public Health on our new HiveMind platform. 256 people from different backgrounds and political persuasions participated in the process, ... More >>
UK extends child junk food advertising restrictions
Monday, 12 December 2016, 12:58 pm | HiveMind
The independent reported this week that the UK government has extended an existing ban on junk food advertising aimed at children. This legislation now includes online and social media advertising. The full article is here: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/junk-food-ads-children-advertising-banned-ban-online-social-media-ofcom-a7462521.html More >>
No sugar coating: what should we do?
Thursday, 1 December 2016, 10:54 am | HiveMind
Welcome to our first interactive HiveMind exploration on the important topic of 'sugar and obesity' in New Zealand. We have provided some background to this issue and identified six potential perspectives below. Is your view represented? Do you ... More >>
