CONVERSENCE

Conversence was founded by Marc-Antoine Parent (Resume), who was director of R&D on Collective Intelligence on the Assembl project at Bluenove for 2013-2016. Marc-Antoine has a long-standing interest in knowledge representation and argument mapping, and has considerable experience in data visualization and computational linguistics. He left Bluenove to develop IdeaLoom, building on the open-source Assembl tool, with the intent to add a further focus on advanced concept mapping, community and interoperability... Conversence is reimagining the conversations of tomorrow. We want to reinvent the practice of group conversations, to replace shallow reactions and community polarization with convergence: a deeper mutual understanding of issues, enabling community-scale collaboration with the aim of achieving deliberative democracy. We were among the leading designers of the innovative collective intelligence tool Assembl, a unique synthesis of social software and concept mapping. We are..