"Title","Author","Summary","Body","Date posted","Country","Ongoing","Start Date","End Date","","Staff Type","","","","","","","","","Facilitation?"
"CaliforniaSpeaks","Susanna Haas Lyons","","Purpose and ProblemNearly five million Californians live without health insurance, and millions of others struggle with skyrocketing costs and the threat of losing their own coverage. To address this growing crisis, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger...","Sun, 11/29/2009 - 22:24","United States","No","Friday, August 10, 2007 - 17:00","Friday, August 10, 2007 - 17:00","Health","facilitators","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","Co-governance (i.e. to share decision making with public authorities)","Open to all with targeted recruitment, Random Selection","21st Century Town Meeting","Regional (e.g. State, Province, Autonomous Region)","Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit)","Regional Government (e.g. State, Provincial, Territorial), Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit)","Yes"
"G1000 (Belgium)","ijm_2012","The G1000 summit is an innovative experiment in deliberative democracy attempting to deal with Belgium's recent ""democratic crisis"" by essentially  bringing residents together to  rennovate the representative democratic system orignally implemented in 1831. The summit is divided into three phases, the first of which started in July of 2011 with an estensive online survey to gather what Beligians felt were the pressing issuesfacing their democracy. It continued in with a meeting of 1,000 Belgian residents on November 11, 2011 to discuss these issues gathered from the survey. The third phase follwed up on the discussions by developing policies and solutions to the problems decided upon and is slated to endin April of 2012.
","Problems and PurposeG1000 is a project to revitalize and ""advise"" Belgium's current representative democratic system by complementing it with deliberative democracy.  It is a response to the increasing ineffectiveness of the representative democracy...","Wed, 01/11/2012 - 04:05","Belgium","Yes","","","Community Development, Immigration, Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems)","","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation, Express opinions/preferences only","Other","Consultation (i.e. to advise decision makers), Co-governance (i.e. to share decision making with public authorities), Raise public awareness","Open to all with targeted recruitment, Random Selection","21st Century Town Meeting, Consensus Conference","National","","Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit)","Yes"
"Tillamook Bay National Estuaries Project","Alberdelli","","Problems and PurposeSixty miles west of Portland, carved into the northern coastline of Oregon, lies Tillamook Bay. It is fed by five main tributary streams that drain from a watershed basin of approximately 540 square miles, and linked to the open ocean...","Fri, 06/04/2010 - 15:31","United States","Yes","Monday, May 31, 2010 - 17:00","","Environment, Planning (e.g. Urban planning, Transportation, etc.)","Paid Staff","","National Government","Co-governance (i.e. to share decision making with public authorities)","Open to all, Open to all with targeted recruitment","Collaborative Governance, 21st Century Town Meeting, Study Circles","Local (e.g. Neighbourhood, City/Town, Metropolitan Area)","Regional Government (e.g. State, Provincial, Territorial), Local Government (e.g. Village, Town, City)","National Government, Regional Government (e.g. State, Provincial, Territorial)","Yes"
"Unified New Orleans Plan","Tammy324","","Problems and PurposeThe repercussions of Hurricane Katrina threatened preexisting divisions of affected communities. These divisions are drawn by tense relationships between individuals of different race, socioeconomic status, and beliefs. While the...","Fri, 05/21/2010 - 17:12","United States","No","Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 17:00","Friday, January 19, 2007 - 16:00","Planning (e.g. Urban planning, Transportation, etc.)","Trained Facilitators and Elected Officials","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","Co-governance (i.e. to share decision making with public authorities)","Open to all with targeted recruitment","21st Century Town Meeting","Local (e.g. Neighbourhood, City/Town, Metropolitan Area)","","Community Based Organization, Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit)","Yes"
"Unified New Orleans Plan","Afbucci","","Purpose and ProblemThe Unified New Orleans Plan (UNOP) was organized to create a comprehensive plan for the city of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The highly detailed plan addresses the specific actions necessary to facilitate the...","Tue, 12/07/2010 - 20:03","United States","No","Monday, July 31, 2006 - 17:00","","Planning (e.g. Urban planning, Transportation, etc.)","facilitators","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","Co-governance (i.e. to share decision making with public authorities)","Open to all, Open to all with targeted recruitment","21st Century Town Meeting","Local (e.g. Neighbourhood, City/Town, Metropolitan Area)","Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit)","Regional Government (e.g. State, Provincial, Territorial), Community Based Organization","Yes"