I'm actually pitching a similar idea to a major corporation.

Here is a reading list if you are interested in the subject. There have been (at least) four conferences on the subject of online deliberation.

https://www.loomio.org/

http://wikis.evergreen.edu/civicintelligence/index.php/ELibe...

http://odbook.stanford.edu/static/filedocument/2009/11/15/Ch...

http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ncn/

http://online-deliberation.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_deliberation

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=134286...

http://www.virtualagora.org/

http://parliament.sourceforge.net/ftf-paper.pdf Parliament: A Module for Parliamentary Procedure Software

http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/IS/archive/henry/RobertReport.pdf Prakken, Henry. 1998. Formalizing robert’s rules of order: An experiment in automating mediation of group decision making. Tech. Rep. REP-FIT-1998-12, GMD.