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#DigitalCommons #GlobalCitizenship #FutureOfDemocracy #PostNationState #CivicTech #ParticipatoryDemocracy #DecentralizedGovernance #DigitalCitizenship #FutureThinking #SystemChange #DesignTheFuture #RadicalImagination #FuturesDesign #UtopiaNow #SocialInnovation #TechForGood #EthicalTech #ClimateJustice #FreedomOfMovement #EquityMatters #GlobalJustice #ReclaimDemocracy #ActivismWorks #DemocracyNow #PowerToThePeople #VoicesUnite #TakeAction #ManifestoInMotion #OpenSociety #Web3ForAll

"The man who wears the shoe knows best that it pinches and where it pinches."
~John Dewey

#Democracy #SocialEcology #ParticipatoryDemocracy
https://towardsautonomyblog.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/choosing-by-lot-and-the-politics-without-titles/

With the antics and atrocities committed by Trump since the start of his second term, there has never been a better time than today to implement a system of participatory democracy, or at least a political system in which political representatives are chosen by sortition. I honestly think it would be very difficult to achieve an outcome as bad as the one we have now.

"In governance, sortition is the selection of public officials or jurors at random, i.e. by lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample.

In ancient Athenian democracy, sortition was the traditional and primary method for appointing political officials, and its use was regarded as a principal characteristic of democracy. Sortition is often classified as a method for both direct democracy and deliberative democracy.

Today sortition is commonly used to select prospective jurors in common-law systems. What has changed in recent years is the increased number of citizen groups with political advisory power, along with calls for making sortition more consequential than elections, as it was in Athens, Venice, and Florence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

#Democracy #ParticipatoryDemocracy #DirectDemocracy #Sortition

We hope this helps scholars evaluate #DemocraticInnovations more rigorously across contexts.
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#PoliticalScience #DeliberativeDemocracy #ParticipatoryDemocracy #PolicyImpact #DemocracyResearch #NewPublication

As we head into an Australian Federal Election year, with the world on fire & political institutions crumbling, I thought I’d reshare this piece I wrote late last year. Partly as a reminder to myself.

We can build our new world in the compost of the old. Let’s do it.

#democracy #MutualAid #Climate #ClimateAction #DirectAction #Nonviolence #ParticipatoryDemocracy #Spokescouncil #consensus

https://theshot.net.au/uncategorized/turning-the-ship-around-with-a-rising-tide/

"How could a two-party system built on patriarchal, colonial, Christian values of another era ever properly represent the diverse nation Australia has become?" - Tim Dunlop

https://substack.com/home/post/p-152932375

#auspol #ParticipatoryDemocracy #Independents #politics

"Genuinely democratic parties aren’t brands, businesses, or elite factions seeking to earn votes but institutions through which members cooperate to shape their society. Some difficult compromises will still be necessary — democratic participation only guarantees a fair hearing and an equal part in collective decision-making — but the character of these compromises will be fundamentally altered. While liberal parties offer compromises that they hope members will accept, democratic parties reach compromises through members’ deliberation — members of democratic parties don’t support policies, but decide them.

Democratization begins by no longer speaking of “the party” earning our votes but of “our party” enacting our joint decisions. The view of the democratic citizen-member is “This is my party, along with my friends and allies, which we use to govern our society; its staff are our employees, its elected members are our spokespeople, its policies are our decisions, and its victories are our victories.” To the extent that this is not yet true, the work of democratization is not yet finished."

https://jacobin.com/2024/11/political-parties-schumpeter-democracy-liberalism

#Democracy #Liberalism #RepresentativeDemocracy #Politics #PoliticalParties #DeliberativeDemocracy #ParticipatoryDemocracy

"We work constructively, we work collaboratively... we're not dragged down by ideology; we're lifted up by trying to find solutions to the major challenges we have"
- Sophie Scamps MP, just one of many community-backed independents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YxxKo3pYaA

#ParticipatoryDemocracy

Did you know there's Greens in the UK House of Lords!?! Extraordinary!

And one of them, Australian-born Natalie Bennett, has written a book all about radical politics, called "Change Everything". Lots of ideas about #democracy and #ParticipatoryDemocracy, dismantling #capitalism, #UBI, #disarmament and more.

I'm going to be interviewing Natalie (Baroness Bennett, mind you!) on July 9, on Zoom.

Register to join us here:
https://www.greeninstitute.org.au/events/change-everything/

'#GeneralElections are a travesty of #democracy – let’s give the people a real voice -'

'Our system is designed for the powerful to retain control. #ParticipatoryDemocracy and a #LotteryVote are just two ways to gain real representation'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/06/general-elections-democracy-lottery-representation
#GE2024 #PoliticalSystems #PoliticalAlternatives

"Complex Conversations is a research programme based at Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures focused on innovating and improving citizen involvement in public decisions around complex issues.

...

From digital tools to citizens’ assemblies, our research is committed to making public engagement more inclusive, informed and constructive."

https://www.complexconversations.nz/

#Aotearoa #NZ #democracy #DeliberativeDemocracy #ParticipatoryDemocracy #ComplexConversations

#OpenAccess #ParticipatoryDemocracy #InternetDemocracy #InternetGovernance: "When was the last time you participated in an election for a Facebook group or sat on a jury for a dispute in a subreddit? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life.” In Governable Spaces, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences of this arrangement matter far beyond online spaces themselves, as feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian tendencies among politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Using media archaeology, political theory, and participant observation, Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before."

https://nathanschneider.info/books/governable-spaces/

Institutions should involve more citizens in EU budget decisions, experts say https://www.euractiv.com/section/participatory-democracy/news/institutions-should-involve-more-citizens-in-eu-budget-decisions-experts-say/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #participatorybudgeting #participatorydemocracy

A dialogue on democracy – Exploring participatory budgeting and citizen participation in the EU https://www.euractiv.com/section/participatory-democracy/video/a-dialogue-on-democracy-exploring-participatory-budgeting-and-citizen-participation-in-the-eu/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Participatorydemocracy

#AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #AIGovernance #AIRegulation #ParticipatoryDemocracy: "The company wanted to find out whether deliberative technologies, like Polis, could provide a path toward AI alignment upon which large swaths of the public could agree. In return, Megill might learn whether LLMs were the missing puzzle piece he was looking for to help Polis finally overcome the flaws he saw in democracy.

On May 25, OpenAI announced on its blog that it was seeking applications for a $1 million program called “Democratic Inputs to AI.” Ten teams would each receive $100,000 to develop “proof-of-concepts for a democratic process that could answer questions about what rules AI systems should follow.” There is currently no coherent mechanism for accurately taking the global public’s temperature on anything, let alone a matter as complex as the behavior of AI systems. OpenAI was trying to find one. “We're really trying to think about: what are actually the most viable mechanisms for giving the broadest number of people some say in how these systems behave?” OpenAI's head of global affairs Anna Makanju told TIME in November. “Because even regulation is going to fall, obviously, short of that.”"

https://time.com/6684266/openai-democracy-artificial-intelligence/

Participatory budgeting: Engaging citizens in decision making https://www.euractiv.com/section/participatory-democracy/infographic/participatory-budgeting-engaging-citizens-in-decision-making/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Participatorydemocracy

The Activists' Hanbook

The Activists’ Handbook is a powerful guide to social change activism and an essential resource for anyone ready to make a difference. Environmental activist Aidan Ricketts offers a step-by-step guide, and more, to starting up or getting involved in grassroots movements.

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#activism
#SocialChange
#GrassrootsMovements
#ParticipatoryDemocracy