Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
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Over the past few weeks, Melbourne, Australia-based Ron Lubensky has written an series of posts explaining the concept of a Citizens’ Assembly and defending it against unfounded criticism:
July 23, 2010: Open letter to Julia Gillard, Prime Minister
July 26, 2010: Assembled citizens make sense
July 26, 2010: Another good op-ed supporting Citizens’ Assembly about climate policy
July 26, [...]
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I’ll be taking the red-eye to Boston tonight on my way to what looks like a great conference: No Better Time: Promising Opportunities in Deliberative Democracy for Educators and Practitioners
The conference is hosted by The Democracy Imperative and the Deliberative Democracy Consortium.
From their website:
What are the conference’s objectives?
Deliberative democracy has reached a critical point in [...]
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In their FAQ, The Deliberative Democracy Consortium defines deliberation and deliberative democracy as follows:
What is “deliberation”?
Deliberation is an approach to decision-making in which citizens consider relevant facts from multiple points of view, converse with one another to think critically about options before them and enlarge their perspectives, opinions, and understandings.
What is “deliberative democracy”?
Deliberative democracy strengthens citizen [...]
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Intellitics will attend this year’s National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation, October 3-5, 2008 in Austin, Texas.
Here’s a quote from the NCDD email newsletter from today that gives you the details:
1. Latest on the 2008 National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation: Creating Cultures of Collaboration
We know your budget is tight this year, but if you [...]
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The following are a few Facebook groups we watch that deal with various aspects of dialogue, deliberation, public participation, e-government or e-democracy (membership numbers as of today):
C2D2 – Canadian Community for Dialogue and Deliberation (18 members)
Community of interest on dialogue and deliberation. Conference held every two years.
Conversation Cafe (308 members)
Conversation Cafes promote community, democracy [...]
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These are the slightly modified slides from a quick presentation I gave last night at Web Monday Silicon Valley in San Francisco. It’s a first high-level introduction to our first product, a web application for problem solving and decision making in large groups.
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We hope to have the initial [...]
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Sandra S. Hodge, Ph.D. and Program Director Discovering Common Ground: Missouri Communities Deliberate at University of Missouri has a nice comparison chart that looks at the differences between debate and deliberation: Deliberation and Your Community: How to Convene and Moderate Local Public Forums Using Deliberative Decision-Making (training manual) (PDF, 1.1MB). The training manual is part [...]
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