🇺🇸 In the Deschutes Civic Assembly on Youth Homelessness, Americans showed another kind of politics is possible.

Find out what recommendations they developed in our latest newsletter: https://demnext.substack.com/p/in-oregon-assembly-americans-show

🔨✨ Come build new democratic innovations with us!

We're hiring a Programme Coordinator and Learning Programme Associate.

Deadline for applications is 6 October, less than a week away.

Details: https://demnext.org/people

🤨 "Why haven’t we reduced the cost of building housing?"

Citizens' Assembly members in 🇺🇸 Deschutes County, Oregon are diving in to the difficult issue of youth homelessness with sharp questions: https://demnext.substack.com/p/citizens-assembly-members-get-to?fbclid=IwY2xjawFoaDxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHRHweYt52HBKEIfnFhRHsmfYYW0RjbSozGYdC00xAEh5mF9MpMszspJEVw_aem_Gmt62RjlENc3IpyX7TG_xQ

🏗️ Want to learn how to design and create your own high-quality Citizens' Assembly? Join Professor Felipe Rey Salamanca and deliberativa.org on September 30 for the launch of the official Spanish translation of our Assembling an Assembly Guide!

Register here: https://t.co/SMcP6OtfGt

¡Nos hace mucha ilusión anunciar la presentación de la Guía de diseño e implementación de una Asamblea Ciudadana! Inscríbete aquí: https://t.co/SMcP6OtfGt

👉 Check out the guide here: https://assemblyguide.demnext.org/es/

📣 Announcing the DemNext Cities Programme!

Here's our first cohort of cities working to democratise urban planning, with new institutionalised Citizens' Assemblies:

🇱🇹 Vilnius, Lithuania
🇬🇲 Kerewan, The Gambia
🇱🇺 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Details: https://open.substack.com/pub/demnext/p/3-new-cities-announcing-the-demnext?r=1wfhpr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Over the next 18 months, @demnext will work with Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg), Kerewan (The Gambia), and Vilnius (Lithuania) to democratise city planning by using citizens‘ assemblies.

https://demnext.substack.com/p/3-new-cities-announcing-the-demnext

#CitizensAssembly

💭 Could AI actually *help* democracy?

On September 24, DemocracyNextNext Founder and CEO Claudia Chwalisz will join Audrey Tang, MIT Center for Constructive Communication's s Deb Roy and Michael John Gorman to discuss Democracy in the Age of AI.

Tickets: https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/democracy-in-the-age-of-ai

How a permanent Citizens' Assembly in Paris passed a bill into law: https://demnext.substack.com/p/how-a-permanent-citizens-assembly

👉 Share this story as an example of function (not disfunction) in politics, and of ordinary people working together!

🚀 Our Cities Programme is beginning to take off, with new Citizens' Assemblies under development in Vilnius and Esch-sur-Alzette!

Details in our latest newsletter ⤵️
https://demnext.substack.com/p/new-cities-programme-collaborations

🇺🇸🦅 We're launching a first-ever Civic Assembly in Deschutes County, Oregon, USA

Youth homelessness is on the rise, but experts can't solve the problem alone.

Now 12,750 letters are inviting residents to join an assembly to tackle the problem.

More: https://demnext.substack.com/p/launching-a-first-of-its-kind-civic

We also want to welcome two remarkable leaders to our International Advisory Council:

• Former 🇹🇼 Taiwan Digital Minister Audrey Tang 🖖

• MIT Center for Constructive Communication Director Deb Roy

We're excited to have them help guide our work on AI governance and tech-assisted Citizens' Assemblies. More details: http://demnext.org/projects

✨ Some news: After 2 years of brilliant work to get DemocracyNext off the ground, Ieva Česnulaitytė is moving to an advisory role.

Read Ieva's reflection on her work and where she goes from here: https://demnext.substack.com/p/comings-and-goings-at-democracynext

🏔️ What would it look like to govern 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 the more-than-human-world?

In our latest newsletter, DemNext Founder/CEO Claudia Chwalisz
explores these questions in a paper to open up the discussion, ahead of a Netherlands convening with Arising Quo.

Read here: https://demnext.substack.com/p/governing-with-the-more-than-human

🤔 Have questions about Citizens’ Assemblies and how they work?

Our second free virtual Q&A session with Ieva Česnulaitytė is this week!

➡️ Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvc-uhrTktGNDI4R6KNNoTa_Bqc4KbtKdF#/registration

What are the principal challenges we face in ensuring climate citizens' assemblies with impact? How can we shape emerging opportunities to bring the voice of citizens into climate governance?

Get answers at an KNOCA online event on 2 May with Erica Hope (European Climate Foundation) and @claudiachwalisz, Founder and CEO of @demnext

https://www.knoca.eu/events/climate-assemblies-emerging-trends-challenges-and-opportunities

#CitizensAssembly

🇫🇷 French president Emmanuel Macron has pledged to organise a new national Citizens' Assembly in 2024, following the success of the last Assembly on end-of-life.

This and more in our latest newsletter 👇
https://demnext.substack.com/p/macron-praises-french-assembly-on

🇬🇧 In the UK, did the Labour Party really announce and then backtrack on an initiative to launch Citizens' Assemblies within one day?

Unlikely. Read our newsletter's deep dive into the headlines.

Moving forward, Assemblies must be organized in a transparent and non-partisan way. After all, some 62% of people in the UK want recommendations from national Citizens’ Assemblies to be binding. https://demnext.substack.com/p/its-a-debate-innit-tracking-the-reaction

Given the expressions of interest we've received, we will continue accepting applications until 19 March!

If you're interested in collaborating with DemocracyNext over the next 2 years to contextualise and adapt the proposals found in our newest paper, ''Six ways to democratise city planning'' (https://www.demnext.org/projects/cities), you can submit an expression of interest here: https://airtable.com/appiGFO6LR29505aL/shr8nLjvqTqv4ZOKe

The application is open to:
➡️ City governments
➡️ Civil society organisations
➡️ Urban Developers

New from our newsletter: Ireland's Chief Executive of the Electoral Commission Art O'Leary is a big believer in Citizens' Assemblies—the "fourth leg" of Irish democracy.

Today Irish citizens will vote on recommendations to change the Constitution made by an Assembly which examined gender issues.

Here's how he answers the skeptics 👇
https://demnext.substack.com/p/the-fourth-leg-of-democracy-an-interview

As Belgium assumes the presidency of the EU Council, the EU can learn from Belgium's democratic innovations to strengthen Citizen Deliberation across Europe.

With G1000 and 40 fellow organisations, we're urging the EU to take action. Read here: http://bit.ly/49YED9L