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    Participants

    The participants in 21st Century Town Meetings are usually ordinary citizens who have no particular expertise in the topic under discussions. They are not stakeholders or professional lobbyists.

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    Definition

    Agora 2.0 is a group of Italian young people devoted to create a software for law creation, law amending and law voting

     

    Problems and Purpose

    The group is working to create a software to enable collaborative governance. The system shall include law proposal, law amending and law voting. So far, the group has been tiepid in adopting vote delegation as there are fears of problems of vote intimidation and rigging. 

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    Blueprint for a new confederation

    This site is based on "As the People Want It, Blueprint for a new confederation" published by Fremskrittspartiets Utredningsinstitutt, an independent research institute dedicated to political and economic research and analysis in Oslo, Norway in 1992. (ISBN 82-7500-007-6).

  • Definition

    Asset-Based Community Development is a communication methodology that utilizes the individual strengths and skills of citizens to build stronger communities and establish sustainable development. Instead of focusing on solving a specific problem, the ABCD approach focuses on applying individual local assets to problems to create meaningful change. The development is solely community-driven as opposed to being driven by external influences. [1]

  • Der BürgerInnen-Rat ist eine neue Form der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Bevölkerung und Politik. Unter qualitätsvoller Moderation werden mit zufällig ausgewählten BürgerInnen einer Gemeinde oder Region an einem Wochenende Lösungen für gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen ausgearbeitet. Der BürgerInnen-Rat ist ein unparteiisches Sprachrohr der Bevölkerung und bringt Politik und Bürger wieder näher zusammen.

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