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Sometimes when you still can’t get your ideas across, perhaps it’s time to open your brain up and plaster it on a page.
Brainstorming or mindmapping can be a very effective way of generating new ideas and solutions, by connecting and growing one idea from another.
A mindmap of Pacific NGOs at debategraph.com
It’s even better though if it’s done in flash as I soon found out with debategraph.com – a nifty wiki with flash programming that allows many people to look at a complicated issue, map out arguments and form one’s own opinion about it.
Some issues already on debategraph.com include Peace in the Middle East and Intellectual Property in the Digital Age.
The key for mapping is pretty easy to understand, there are the main arguments and the protagonists and any extra information you wish for referencing.
I started one just to map out the roles of Pacific Island NGOs and what they’re doing in the Pacific. Potentially this can be split up into smaller debates regarding the fate of climate change refugees in the Pacific or the coup culture in Fiji (this would really benefit from it I think).
I’m hoping to outline all or most of the NGOs by the end of November, but anyone is free to help! Here is the link to the page, registration is quick and easy.
