eDelphi Process, part 1: Creating a panel and a query
Channel: Metodix
Date: 2020-01-08

During its twenty years of development, eDelphi has been built as a network utility for qualitative delphi research.

It emphasizes the interactive learning process of an all-round and multidisciplinary expert panel, instead of just data collecting and recycling. As an example of this, we will be using the four possible routes to end up to technological singularity, sketched by Vernor Vinge.

By technological singularity he means a new evolutionary phase when the significance of the machines will outweigh the human abilities.

The phase will be a result of a changing relationship between the human and the machine. For this video instruction there is an open delphi panel with the title Technological Singularity: https://www.edelphi.org/technological-singularity . This panel is referred to as the Case panel later in the instructions.

The eDelphi process consists of four phases that are:

1. Creating a panel and a query
2. Building an expert panel
3. Executing the delphi rounds
4. Analyzing, presenting and reporting the delphi results

In the first part, we will create a new panel and create a query for it .