by Tim on February 8, 2010
The report from last year’s No Better Time conference is now available: No Better Time: A 2010 Report on Opportunities and Challenges for Deliberative Democracy (PDF, 1.1 MB)
Executive summary
In July 2009, more than 250 campus and community leaders came together at the University of New Hampshire to talk about the “deliberative democracy” field, the tide [...]
by Tim on January 19, 2010
This just in via the The Democracy Imperative newsletter:
We’re happy to start the New Year with this announcement: the students who attended the No Better Time conference last July were inspired to take the initiative and host their own event, Connect the Dots: Public Dialogue, Deliberation, and Community Problem Solving & Action. If you missed NBT, [...]
by Tim on September 6, 2009
Session notes and related resources from the “No Better Time” conference at the University of New Hampshire back in July are now available for download on their resources page.
Measuring and metrics was a hot topic that was discussed at the following learning exchanges:
Embedding Deliberative Practices in Local Democracy (session notes, PDF):
This would need some further digging into, but lots [...]
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 [...]