Cognitive democracy is a set of dimensions of democratic quality, present to different extents, in the process of knowledge-making.
Preconditions of democratic knowledge-making process
A knowledge-making process following cognitive democracy quality is the one which
- provides information which results easy to use and accessible;
- facilitates the accessibility to the technology that support the process;
- is open to participation;
- has a transparent organization structure and accountable financial aspects;
- and the knowledge management is clear on the authorship and on the conditions of use.
These dimensions favor the conditions for generating a consensus between the people participating in the knowledge-making.