Latest posts tagged with #CitizenAssembly on Bluesky
🇧🇪🗳️ Random citizens writing laws, and it’s actually working.
👇 Would you trust a citizen lottery to write U.S. laws? Tell us below.
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#Democracy #CivicInnovation #Belgium #CitizenAssembly #FilteredWithTJ
#aras25 #Sortition #citizenassembly an addendum, in this system there would be a mix of “regular” politicians voted in alongside randomly chosen people with same rights to speak, cast votes, intro legislation. Hence “blended” sortition. You want a specific rep: go vote for one. If none appeal to […]
#aras25 #Sortition #citizenassembly
If the constituency has 90% turnout for regular candidates and no spoiled votes then there’s little chance for a sortitioned rep for that constituency. No transfers possible to sortitioned apart from untransferable votes.
So people who don’t vote or feel […]
#aras25 #Sortition #citizenassembly
Sortition is the process where we choose at random a representative for our parliament. We pay them well for their time. We might also agree to shortish terms so we get a good selection of people. Say a six month term.
Anyway the key to my proposal is - each […]
In the wake of the #aras25 election and the disturbingly large numbers of spoiled votes, here’s my modest proposal for election reform.
It won’t get any traction of course because turkeys won’t vote for Christmas.
I’m calling it Blended #Sortition
We already know sortition in this country […]
Paris #citizenassembly meets monthly and has worked out a plan for homeless and a wish for 100 garden streets.
www.paris.fr/pages/assemb...
Quickly making progress on this tool for Polis-like "opinion map painting"! It's like hoodmaps.com for community-scale dialogue. patcon.github.io/polislike-op... #democracy #delibwave #citizenassembly #plurality
Democracy with a formidable social conscience is the only way forward. #delibtech #civictech #citizenassembly @lisa-schirch.bsky.social
www.zerohour.uk/what-is-the-... Climate & Nature Assembly is a #CitizenAssembly, ordinary people help politicians make policy decisions 👍 randomly selected members of the public represent a cross-section of society, hear from experts, deliberate to create recommendations for govt policy #democracy
Also available in English #CitizenParticipation #PublicDebate #CitizenAssembly #Participation
#CitizenParticipation and #PublicDebate are often treated as separate.
In our latest shortcut we demonstrate how our "Forum against Fakes" combined both - through the sequential integration of large scale public consultation into the #citizenassembly model www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/our-proje...
Perspective of talk from seat showing the Bristol Urban Forum manifesto on lap
Participants discussing themes identified by the citizen assembly process
Bristol Urban Forum manifesto event, culmination of a years worth of experiments in Bristol on #CitizenAssembly
Feel, Seek, Think, Talk, Note process and diagram of process in English and German
#CitizenAssembly Deliberation Process cards in English and German for a couple of projects that cross-over in content/intent
Working on #CitizenAssembly (CA) facilitation project acuity.design/citizen-asse... (come and chat on 19/9) and one idea that is easier to explain in America is form of CA as Grand Jury or Trial Jury. We don’t have former much in UK so harder to explain.
Audience members discussing and pointing at the screen
Audience members from behind discussing
Brendan presenting a slide titled 'Interactive reports/evidence'
Brendan presenting a slide titled 'An artistic licence'
Thanks PMStudioUK for hosting my talk on 'Creative Technology and Policy' - some really lively discussion at the end - watch back in full here including our aspirations for a digital #CitizenAssembly and how we make space for #Imagination www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFPX...
