World Café

‘How can we enhance our capacity to talk and think more deeply together about the critical issues facing our communities, our organisations, our nations, and our planet?’ The World Café: Shaping our Futures Through Conversations that Matter, Juanita Brown, 2005 What is the World Café? The World Café method is a discussion group aimed at...Continue reading

Importance of Facilitation

Lyn Carson – Research Director, The newDemocracy Foundation What is the question? How are the usual challenges associated with working with groups addressed in mini-publics? What are the usual answers? In the political landscape, groups are commonly chaired (in committees) or arbitrated by a Speaker (in parliaments). When citizens are brought together in a public space,...Continue reading

MosaicLab

nDF has collaborated with the engagement firm MosaicLab to support the operation of the I deliberated -now what? online group. The group is operated via Facebook and is open to those who have taken part in a deliberative process such as a citizens’ jury which was facilitated by MosaicLab. nDF has encouraged former jurors to participate in...Continue reading

Sample Size for Mini-Publics

Lyn Carson – Research Director, The newDemocracy Foundation What is the question? When convening a mini-public, certain basic parameters must be met: the group should be diverse and inclusive (Landemore, 2012), and it should have time and sufficient information to deliberate well (March & Carson, 2013) (See, Deliberation), and its decisions should be influential. When discussing...

French Presidential Election and Sortition

Gil Delannoi – Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po University (Paris)Lyn Carson – Research Director, the newDemocracy Foundation Presidential campaign Something rather unusual happened in France during the campaign for president in 2017. Although the world watched with interest as Emmanuel Macron and Martine Le Pen competed in the second round of presidential elections, some fascinating...Continue reading

Systemic Impacts of Mini-publics

Professor Chris Riedy Dr Jenny Kent Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS You can read the full report here. Introduction A mini-public is a democratic innovation that brings together a small, representative group of citizens to deliberate and advise on a decision, or sometimes make a decision. Members of mini- publics are often randomly selected from...Continue reading

Media Release: Giving Geelong the council it wants and deserves

Geelong will have the council structure it wants with the passage of City of Greater Geelong Amendment Bill 2017. The Legislative Council passed the Bill last night, bringing about the new structure for the City of Greater Geelong following the Council’s dismissal in April 2016. In an Australian first, the Geelong Citizen’s Jury process put...Continue reading

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