Who is doing similar work?

It's nice to know that there are many other people out there doing similar and related work to myself. Following is a list organizations and people who provide concrete methods for conducting large group consensus decision-making, deliberative democracy and various models of flat organizing and participatory governance. This list is helpful for recognizing and orienting how Co-op Tools fits in this emerging sector.

I specifically include organizations that have a strong emphasis on offline solutions (i.e. not Internet dependent) although they may use some web services and high-end technology.

In priority of similarity to Co-op Tools...

grove.com
Provide a wide array of books, templates, kits, facilitation training and consulting services for organization-change. (USA)

dialoguebydesign.net
Consultants who specialises in running public and stakeholder engagement processes, using online, paper-based and face-to-face methods. (UK)

worldblu.com
Consultants on democratic workplaces.

americaspeaks.com
Provide a complete solution for deliberative democracy where hundreds of citizens participate in "21st Century Town Meetings". (USA)

dialoguecircles.com
Consulting and service providers for public consultation processes. (Canada)

covision.com
Online and offline tools and facilitation. (USA)

National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation

This association defines the democracy sector within North American (USA).

tamarackcommunity.ca
Resources and consulting on community engagement processes.(Canada)

The Community Planning Handbook

An excellent resource for conducting citizen consultation and engagement into neighbourhood development.
consensustools.com
Larry Dressler is a consensus consultant. He is one of many international consultants that provide materials and training in consensus processes, although they all tend to focus on small groups (under 20) while the Co-op Tools Dotmocracy process is designed for larger groups of over 50.

blueoxen.com
Think tank devoted to studying and improving high-performance collaboration.

Deliberative Polling
James S. Fishkin has defined a technique that combines polling and deliberation to recognize informed public opinions.

inscapepublishing.com
Provide workbooks for team development. The focus is on smaller groups in traditional business stuctures.

optiontechnologies.com
Electronic audience polling technology.

This list is incomplete and in progress. I'd appreciate suggestions for who else to add.