An electronic version of an Open Space conference developed by a team led by Open Space facilitator Gabriela Ender in Germany:

What is OpenSpace-OnlineŽ?

It is an Internet conferencing method. The conference takes place in successive phases, with between 5 and 75 persons simultaneously working on a major subject that is current and important to them.

The participants work together in a goal and solution-oriented manner for about two to eight hours. No external online moderator is needed. A virtual facilitator guides all participants through the conference process.

The participants themselves are the experts. They meet because of a shared interest in a major theme, and together they develop new ideas and solutions based on their knowledge, questions, suggestions and dedication.

At the end of every OpenSpace-OnlineŽ conference, each participant receives, at the press of a button, complete documentation about the conference in a convenient HTML-format. This provides an ideal basis for further work, as it contains all contents, results, and arrangements made during the conference and can be immediately used in either digital or printed form.

The complete and fully developed conference system is available in German and English.

Application and effects

If your client, company, organisation, university or city is interested in sustainable and integrated development, the OpenSpace-OnlineŽ conference system could be very useful for you. Regardless of whether the conference system is used in the realm of politics, society, economics or education, it can make a very real contribution to the mutual design and co-creation of the future.

If needed, OpenSpace-OnlineŽ conferences can be supplemented or combined with conventional forms of organisation and methods, both online and offline.

Booking single conferences

You can book and organise single OpenSpace-OnlineŽ conferences easily and rapidly via the website and the conference server of the OpenSpace-Online GmbH. This enables small companies to work with their teams or clients quickly and independently.

Working with the complete Conference System

A full OpenSpace-OnlineŽ license gives bigger companies, organisations, universities, schools, associations, clubs, cities, or communities the possibility to design their internal or external communication in a new way, via the Internet, Intranet or Extranet.

An OpenSpace-OnlineŽ license gives you unlimited use of the conference system during the term of the licence.

Licensees have complete control of the system, which contains the Server Software, the Conference Software, the Administrator Tool and the Supervisor Tool.