"Title","Author","Summary","Body","Date posted","Country","Ongoing","Start Date","End Date","","Staff Type","","","","","","","","","Facilitation?"
"National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures","jenny.van skiver","Public engagement was at the center of the National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures, a pioneering effort supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and informed by the White House Open Government Initiative. The National Conversation vision was that chemicals are used and managed in ways that are safe and healthy for all people. The project’s goal was to develop collaboratively an action agenda with clear, achievable recommendations that can help government agencies and other organizations strengthen their efforts to protect the public from harmful chemical exposures. To realize this goal, CDC/ATSDR engaged thousands of people across the nation through the use of web dialogues, community conversations, work groups, and social media platforms. The National Conversation Leadership Council used the results of this public input to author the action agenda.","Problems and Purpose History Originating Entities and Funding Participant Selection Deliberation, Decisions, and Public Interaction Influence, Outcomes, and Effects Analysis and Criticism Secondary Sources External Links Notes ","Thu, 05/23/2013 - 14:16","United States","No","","","Environment, Health, Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems), Science & Technology","","","","","","","","","","No"
"Participatory urban development Berlin - Dialogue about options for the future use of the Tempelhof airport","Christina Rucker","","Problems and Purpose History Originating Entities and Funding Participant Selection Deliberation, Decisions, and Public Interaction Influence, Outcomes, and Effects Analysis and Criticism Secondary Sources External Links Notes ","Thu, 05/23/2013 - 11:35","United States","No","","","","","","","","","","","","","No"
"www.dresdner-debatte.de","Christina Rucker","","Problems and Purpose History Originating Entities and Funding Participant Selection Deliberation, Decisions, and Public Interaction Influence, Outcomes, and Effects Analysis and Criticism Secondary Sources External Links Notes ","Thu, 05/23/2013 - 11:34","United States","No","","","","","","","","","","","","","No"
"Mitreden-U – Umweltdialog zur deutschen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie...","Christina Rucker","","Problems and Purpose History Originating Entities and Funding Participant Selection Deliberation, Decisions, and Public Interaction Influence, Outcomes, and Effects Analysis and Criticism Secondary Sources External Links Notes ","Thu, 05/23/2013 - 11:34","United States","No","","","","","","","","","","","","","No"
"Bürgerbeteiligte Haushaltssicherung - Participatory budget saving process in Solingen","Christina Rucker","","Problems and Purpose History Originating Entities and Funding Participant Selection Deliberation, Decisions, and Public Interaction Influence, Outcomes, and Effects Analysis and Criticism Secondary Sources External Links Notes ","Thu, 05/23/2013 - 11:33","United States","No","","","","","","","","","","","","","No"
"Democratic Schools: the example of Hadera in Israel","danielm","This entry is about democratic schooling. It describes how democracy works at the ""Democratic School of Hadera"" in Israel.","IntroductionThe school is the state school where young people are turned into state persons and thus into nothing other than henchmen of the state. Walking to school, I was walking into the state and, since the state destroys people, into the institution...","Wed, 05/22/2013 - 11:40","United States","No","","","Children & Youth, Education & Schools","","","","","","","","","","No"
"Legislative e-Democracia","Cristiano Ferri Faria","Legislative e-Democracia is driven by a belief that the lawmaking process can benefit from the convergence of political representation and citizen participation, in a virtuous cycle where one model strengthens the other. People in contemporary societies have very diverse interests, experiences, expertise and values. The great challenge in making social participation feasible is to find out how to take advantage of such diversity and incorporate it into the policy-making system. The engine behind e-Democracia is a ‘multiple participatory mechanism,’ a kind of electronic, permeable sponge that enables people to share their professional experience and expertise, express their personal and collective interests and values, and foster creative ideas in different forms and intensity, in all phases of the policy-making cycle. That participation may consider any contribution that citizens want to deliver, or are technically able to present. Some persons would be interested in merely discussing ideas (solutions) in public forums, whereas others can be engaged in drafting, simply uploading useful information to describe the problem or presenting arguments to support ideas. One could even help to merely rank better ideas. Besides participants, there will be many other citizens who are satisfied with simply monitoring the legislative discussion. ","Problems and Purpose History Originating Entities and Funding Participant Selection Deliberation, Decisions, and Public Interaction Influence, Outcomes, and Effects Analysis and Criticism Secondary Sources External Links Notes ","Tue, 05/21/2013 - 12:10","United States","No","","","","","","","","","","","","","No"
"Toronto Civics 101","TorontoCivicEngagement","","Problems and Purpose History Originating Entities and Funding Participant Selection Deliberation, Decisions, and Public Interaction Influence, Outcomes, and Effects Analysis and Criticism Secondary Sources External Links Notes ","Tue, 05/21/2013 - 09:19","United States","No","","","","","","","","","","","","","No"
"Bridgeport (Connecticut) Community Conversations","Peter Levine","","Problems and Purpose History Originating Entities and Funding Participant Selection Deliberation, Decisions, and Public Interaction Influence, Outcomes, and Effects Analysis and Criticism Secondary Sources External Links Notes ","Fri, 05/17/2013 - 17:09","United States","No","","","","","","","","","","","","","No"
"Geraldton 2029 and beyond: Developing civic deliberation and collaborative governance to co-create a sustainable future","Janette Hartz-Karp","Democratic governments need to increase their capacity for effective problem solving to address sustainability, the greatest challenge of our time, in a way that brings the people with them. Scientists have suggested we will be unable to effectively address our uncertain future without a ’new technology of cooperation’. This project utilises innovative techniques in civic deliberation and social media to strengthen democratic capacity in pursuit of resilience and sustainability (File 1). It mobilises citizens, government and industry in the Greater Geraldton City Region, to collaboratively develop and implement sustainability plans. Through a series of deliberations, some organised by decision-makers, others by community, ordinary citizens have opportunities to engage with scientific data, differing viewpoints and each other to develop local sustainability solutions. Focussed recruitment strategies ensure inclusion of marginalised groups, while random sampling ensures representation of diverse community views. The project purposefully creates opportunities for communities to deliberate and to develop a coherent voice, and to link that voice with decision-making processes so it is influential. The mutually reinforcing deliberative community and collaborative governance processes create a virtuous cycle’ that strengthens democratic behaviour by developing the awareness, capacity and willingness of both the community and government to work together towards common goals. ","Problems and Purpose History Originating Entities and Funding Participant Selection Deliberation, Decisions, and Public Interaction Influence, Outcomes, and Effects Analysis and Criticism Secondary Sources External Links Notes ","Fri, 05/17/2013 - 00:59","United States","No","","","","","","","","","","","","","No"
"Hampton, VA deliberative governance","Peter Levine","","Problems and Purpose History Originating Entities and Funding Participant Selection Deliberation, Decisions, and Public Interaction Influence, Outcomes, and Effects Analysis and Criticism Secondary Sources External Links Notes ","Thu, 05/16/2013 - 13:34","United States","No","","","","","","","","","","","","","No"
"History of citizenship in the United States","Thomas Wright Sulcer","An essay exploring the relationship of citizenship from the 1700s to the present

This is a brief history not of a people or nation or place but of a relationship -- the relation of citizenship -- between a person and the state and how it changed from colonial times to the present. In the 1700s, citizenship meant active political participation in local government, showing up at meetings, debating, volunteering in local government. Over time, however, political participation declined to the point where Americans are essentially apolitical beings divorced from politics. Citizenship has narrowed to signify only a legal marker meaning membership in America. How did this change? And what does it mean? While students of history and politics as well as political activists may find this thinking particularly helpful, free people can benefit. This essay examines the transformation, and argues that declining political participation has drawbacks, but that impressive advances for humanity in general have overshadowed the citizenship decline.","History of citizenship in the United StatesAn essay exploring the relationship of citizenship from the 1700s to the presentThis is a brief history not of a people or nation or place but of a relationship -- the relation of citizenship -- between a person...","Sat, 04/28/2012 - 19:53","United States","No","","","Economic Development, Human Rights, Gender & Racial Equality, Immigration, Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems)","","","","","","Representative Town Meeting, Deliberative Democracy","","","","No"
"Federal Community Cabinets (Australia)","qmayne",""," Note: This article is in need of assistance with editing and content. Moreover, it may be that this article should be included in the ""methods"" section, as it is more a description of a method than it is a detailed summary of how the method was used....","Tue, 04/24/2012 - 14:21","Australia","No","","","","","","","","","","","","","No"
"UK's Virtual Parliament","wenger1989","The Virtual Parliament is a not for profit UK website that allows the general public to vote on policy ideas and suggest their own. ","Problems and PurposeIt encourages two way conversations between policy creators and the public that results in enhanced policies and a bettter informed public.HistoryThe Virtual Parliament is a not for profit UK website that allows the general public to...","Fri, 02/24/2012 - 20:08","United States","No","","","","","","","","","","","","","No"
"Multi-option Referendums: The Cases of Puerto Rico and Newfoundland","Paul Nollen","Multi option referendums have often been discussed in relation to referendums on ethnic and national issues. There have been relatively high profile referendums with several options in Sweden, e.g. in 1955 when three pension systems were put to a vote and in 1980, when the future of Nuclear Energy was decided in a three-option referendum. But multi-option referendums have also been discussed in relation to the referendum on independence or ‘devolution max’ (independence but with the same currency and foreign policy) in Scotland.","Problems and Purpose History Originating Entities and Funding Participant Selection Deliberation, Decisions, and Public Interaction Influence, Outcomes, and Effects Analysis and Criticism Secondary Sources External Linkshttp://www.cps.org.uk/blog/q/date/...","Tue, 01/24/2012 - 06:30","United States","No","","","","","","","","","","","","","No"
"Direct Democracy SA (""Never again vote for a 5 year dictator"")","Jim Powell","To educate the voters that there is an alternative to the current system","Note:  This article is in need of assistance with content and editing.  Please help us compete it.SummaryDirect Democracy SA is an attempt to reform the South African electoral system by using citizen advocacy to convince currently elected politicans to...","Wed, 12/28/2011 - 09:21","United States","No","","","Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems)","","","","","","","","","","No"
"The Second Constitution of the United States: A new and improved draft for the 21st century","Thomas Wright Sulcer","This proposed replacement aims to keep the best of the current Constitution (e.g. checks and balances, divided government) but with substantial improvements (e.g. foreign policy architecture, citizenship, rotation of offices.) My purpose in proposing an alternative is (1) to demonstrate that an improved Constitution is possible and (2) encourage leading thinkers to collaborate to draft an even better version and (3) to have the best version ratified by the American people. I have tried my best to make it nonpartisan. This document is public domain. Feel free to copy it without attribution. Sections have been copied from the current US Constitution. -- tom sulcer December 21, 2011","Note:  This article is need of assistance with content and editing.  Please help us complete it.SummaryThis is a proposed revision of the United States Constitution which aims to improve the current Constitution in areas such as foreign policy...","Wed, 12/21/2011 - 14:09","United States","No","","","Human Rights, Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice, & Corrections, Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems)","","","","","","","","","","No"
"Il Padule Che Vorremmo (Ponte Buggianese, Italy)","Jandroots","","PROBLEM AND PURPOSEIl processo partecipativo che ha preso il nome di “Il Padule che vorremmo” è stato avviato dal Comune di Ponte Buggianese con il sostegno dell'Autorità regionale della partecipazione della Regione Toscana.Il problema in questione,...","Wed, 06/29/2011 - 15:04","Italy","No","Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 17:00","Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 16:00","Environment, Planning (e.g. Urban planning, Transportation, etc.)","Professionals","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","Regional Government (e.g. State, Provincial, Territorial), Local Government (e.g. Village, Town, City)","Consultation (i.e. to advise decision makers)","Open to all","Deliberation","","Local Government (e.g. Village, Town, City)","Local Government (e.g. Village, Town, City)","Yes"
"Science: you decide","Cobi","","Note:  This article is in need of assistance with editing and content.  Please help us complete it.","Tue, 08/31/2010 - 00:17","Australia","No","Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 17:00","Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 17:00","Budgeting, Environment, Planning (e.g. Urban planning, Transportation, etc.)","university researchers","","Academic Institution","Consultation (i.e. to advise decision makers)","Open to all with targeted recruitment","","","Academic Institution","Academic Institution","Yes"
"Über Demokratie in der Schule – das Beispiel Hadera","danielm","Dieser Artikel beschreibt die Funktions- und Wirkungsweise demokratischer Schulen am Beispiel der ""Demokratischen Schule Hadera"" in Israel","EinleitungDie Schule ist die Staatsschule, in welcher die jungen Menschen zu Staatsmenschen werden und also zu nichts anderem als zu Staatshandlangern gemacht werden. Ging ich in die Schule, ging ich in den Staat …(Thomas Bernhard: Alte Meister,...","Wed, 05/22/2013 - 11:23","Vereinigte Staaten","No","","","Children & Youth, Education & Schools","","","","","","","","","","No"