http://dotank.nyls.edu/NationalMedBrdVisMediator.html

A discussion facilitation tool for mediation. This powerpoint presentation has screenshots. The same powerpoint also has screenshots of UnChat?.
This is mostly taken from the powerpoint. It's not clear which of these are completely implemented and which are just mockups.
Each person signs on and is assigned to a "team" (one of the parties to the mediation, or the "mediator" team). The tool has various parts:
In the "statement of the problem", each team (including the mediator) can enter their own textual statement of the high-level problem under discussion. The http://dotank.nyls.edu/Powerpoint/NatMedBrdVisMed.zip powerpoint] gives this example statement: "A company and its union representing working at their check in counter are faced with a problem that both consider urgent. The company owns a large hotel near a major airport, in an area that in not known for its safety after dark. In the recent past there have been a few instances in which individuals have been accosted in the area of the hotel….", and these example "challenges": "too dark", "bad neighborhood" in the "mediator" view.
In the "issues and interests", each team can enter their own list of "issues/aspects of the problem/suggested solutions" and "interestsgoals". The http:/dotank.nyls.edu/Powerpoint/NatMedBrdVisMed?.zip powerpoint] gives these example issues: "alarms on the doors", "give the desk clerks guns" and these example interests: "limiting liability for company", "employee moral", "limiting costs".
I believe that everyone can see everyone else's entries, except that you can't see which individual authored something unless you are on the same team.
Next, each team rates the severity of the (issues? interests? assertions?) from 5 (disagree) to 1 (agree). The software then calculates how much the different sides agree on each (issue? interest? assertion?) and displays a ConsensusMeter? which is either green (mostly agreement), yellow, or red. The http://dotank.nyls.edu/Powerpoint/NatMedBrdVisMed.zip powerpoint] gives these example ratings:
| assertion | Labor | Employer | Amount of consensus |
| Wage is enough | 5 | 1 | red |
| Workspace is safe | 4 | 4 | green |
| Sufficient lighting | 1 | 3 | yellow |
| Good health lighting | 5 | 3 | yellow |
| Good career path | 4 | 4 | green |
| Flexible work hours | 3 | 5 | yellow |
An alternate representation of the ConsensusMeter? is in terms of a TreeMap.
The lists of proposals could also be categorized by issue, author, or type of solution, and then displayed as a tree hierarchy (they call it a MindMap).
The suggested solutions have checkboxes so that you can keep track of which ones everyone agrees to do.
The final stage is to draft solution documents. The tool includes a searchable "clause library" with a ton of documents categorized by type so that you can look through them for clauses that you can use in your solution document1. Documents in the clause library can also be annotated (at the document level). Types of documents in the clause library include "drafts", "documents", "challenges", "solutions", "legal documents", and "clause templates".
The actual draft of the solution document is done in a wiki. Interesting, content in the wiki is color-coded, with the colors indicating how finished each section is. The colors correspond to "Needs to be replaced", "Basically OK, but needs work", "Changes in progress", and "Changes complete, ready to go!".
Finally, there are annotated "process maps". I didn't really understand how these worked, although it seems that they are visual maps of the phases of the mediation processes, with attached annotations that contain hints from other mediators about what to do in these stages.
This is a DoTank project.
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