Systems
Commercial software products that support GDSS practices over the Internet in both synchronous and asynchronous settings include ynSyte's WIQ, spilter.nl, facilitate.com, MeetingSphere (formerly smartSpeed), ThinkTank.
There is also an initiative to create open-source software that can support similar group processes in education, where this category of software has been called a Discussion Support System. See CoFFEE.
Read more about this topic: Group Decision Support Systems
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