Reflections on three podcasts with James Bridle, Amanda Ripley, and adrienne marie brown — about hope, curiosity and complexity, relationships with self, others, and the living world, fractals, and radical imagination — On my flight back from San Francisco to Paris, I had that rare circumstance created of having the time and focus to listen to three long podcasts back to back: An Ecological Technology — A conversation with James Bridle on the Emergence podcast

The other day, someone asked me what my year would look like if it were a painting. Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Green, Orange and Yellow” came immediately to mind. The colours, the movement, the textures. The winding, serpentine path. It captures the feelings of my year. Deciding what to do next at…

Join us for a virtual event on 22 February 2021! #delibWave — Register for the webinar here Around the world, public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens’ Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems. …

Access the OECD report and highlights here. The OECD has collected evidence and data that support the idea that citizen participation in public decision making can deliver better policies, strengthen democracy, and build trust. …

Join us for the report launch on 10th June 17.00–18.00 CET! — Register for the event. The “deliberative wave” has been building since the 1980s, gaining momentum since around 2010. Public authorities across the world and at all levels of government have used around 300 Citizens’ Assemblies, Juries, and Panels to involve citizens in tackling complex policy problems. …

Thank you for taking part! — In March 2020, we shared the Draft Good Practice Principles for Deliberative Processes for Public Decision Making for discussion and comment. We received 131 comments from civil society, governments, academics, and practitioners. Thank you to everyone who took the time to review the draft principles and provide us with insightful…

Are you a practitioner delivering a representative deliberative process fully or partially online? Tell us how! — The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many planned Citizens’ Assemblies, Juries, and other representative deliberative processes to be fully or partially transformed for an online context. Policy makers still want and need informed, collective citizen recommendations to pressing policy problems.

For comments and discussion — Deliberative processes are one of the most innovative methods of fostering citizen participation in government. The OECD has collected a wealth of evidence as to how deliberative processes work across different countries. …

Call for Submissions — Deadline extended — Actively engaging citizens and civil society in policy-making processes is at the core of open government agenda and key to inclusive governance. …