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Coming up soon: New Frontiers of Delib Dem Induction Webinar 💫 🗓️Thursday, 7 September at 8:00-9:00 AM PDT / 10:00-11:00 AM CST / 17:00-18:00 PM CEST / 1:00-2:00 AM AEST (+1) 🚀Register here: tinyurl.com/frontierswebin…

A conversation on the representativeness of citizens assemblies was one that needed to happen. Thanks to Kyle Redman @LucyJParry and Nicole Curato for making it happen! #delibdem

🆕🆕🆕 Digest! "We cannot simply assume a technical ‘automatic’ advantage in terms of inclusion and representativeness of mini-public engagement strategies over non-sortition-based strategies" Paolo Spada & Tiago C. Peixoto in convo with Kyle Redman  👉 publicdeliberation.net/how-representa…

Australia’s Open Government Forum is developing Australia’s third national action plan. Consultation to help shape the plan is now open. Visit: consultations.ag.gov.au

Well, here it is – your one-stop shop for how to run an assembly! Congratulations to the team at @DemocracyNext, Claudia Chwalisz and Ieva Česnulaitytė, a huge effort to pull this together. It draws on our work and features resources from newDemocracy among others.

We’re working to develop Australia’s third National Action Plan for open government, transparency and accountability. We want your views on the 8 draft commitments. Consultation closes Wednesday 22 November 2023: consultations.ag.gov.au

The JDD is supported by the newDemocracy, Engagement Institute, and Deliberative Democracy Consortium. We're ending this week with a toast to their amazing work 🍻 newdemocracy.com.au iap2.org/mpage/Home deliberative-democracy.net

Today's news that Labour would run citizens' assemblies in govt is v welcome. CAs can be great for enabling more thoughtful and inclusive policy-making. But some of the reporting has been a little bit misleading.... Oliver Wright Josh Self thetimes.co.uk/article/sue-gr…

💥Citizens' Assembly Myths: Busted! #CitizensAssemblies are gaining global momentum and voices from across the political spectrum in the UK are now advocating for their use. However, misunderstandings persist about their purpose and benefits. 🔍 It's time for clarity… 🪡👇

📣NEW: BLOG Reema Patel & Michelle Mackie react to the announcement from Sue Gray on citizens’ juries & assemblies, deep diving into the benefits of these processes & suggest how they can be delivered effectively. 👉 bit.ly/Citizen-Juries… (1)

We're going live in ~15 minutes at the Summit for Democracy in South Korea. Iain Walker presenting alongside Art O'Leary, Gillian Dorner, Ricard-Nihoul and @GrahamAllenMPX youtube.com/watch?v=BdwEIX…

Very happy to have a chance to exchange at international level on the EU expererience with deliberative democracy, talking about the Conference on the Future of Europe and the European Citizens’ Panels citizens.ec.europa.eu/panels/europea…

About to go live in Brazil! Discussing “institutionalisation” pathways and challenges with friends Delibra Brasil at their third national meeting of deliberative practitioners. Grateful to be invited to speak at such an important event.

The recording of our session at the third Summit for Democracy held in South Korea is now available. Art O'Leary and Ossian Smyth on Ireland's CA's Ricard-Nihoul on the European Commission Gillian Dorner on the OECD's data @GrahamAllenMPX on the future youtube.com/watch?v=BdwEIX…

First drop of ideas on Day 4/6 of the Manningham Community Panel with @mosaiclabco “What range and level of services are we prepared to pay for?”

A new audit of Australia's democracy finds it generally in good shape, but with pressing issues that need addressing. Mark Evans Charles Sturt University theconversation.com/australian-dem…