"Title","Author","Summary","Body","Date posted","Country","Ongoing","Start Date","End Date","","Staff Type","","","","","","","","","Facilitation?"
"Advancing the Future for Adults with Autism: National Town Hall Meeting (United States)","marysullivan","AFFA is an organization that works closely with America Speaks concerning bettering the lives of adults with autism. This organization has held town hall meetings, and think tanks in hopes of creating a national agenda that will be introduced to Congress in the future. AFFA has come up with several ideas on how to make adults with autism have a better future and have the same resources and opportunities that other adults have.","Problems and Purpose- Advancing the Future for Adults with Autism (AFFA) is a national coalition of organizations in the United States working to improve the lives of adults with autism. AFFA worked with AmericaSpeaks to hold 21st Century National Town...","Sat, 12/31/2011 - 09:00","United States","No","","","Aging","","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","International Organization, Regional Government (e.g. State, Provincial, Territorial), Local Government (e.g. Village, Town, City), Community Based Organization","Consultation (i.e. to advise decision makers), Raise public awareness, Other","Open to all with targeted recruitment","21st Century Town Meeting","National","Not Applicable","International Organization, Regional Government (e.g. State, Provincial, Territorial), Local Government (e.g. Village, Town, City), Academic Institution","Yes"
"Australia's First Citizens' Parliament (Canberra, Australia)","Vickiannelane","","Australia's first Citizens' Parliament (also referred to as Australian Citizens' Parliament and ACP) was a large-scale three-day deliberation that took place in Canberra between randomly-selected citizens of Australia in February 2009. Organized by the...","Wed, 03/17/2010 - 05:18","Australien","No","Thursday, February 5, 2009 - 16:00","Sunday, February 8, 2009 - 16:00","Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems), Planning (e.g. Urban planning, Transportation, etc.)","Mostly volunteers w/ some paid","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","Academic Institution, Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit), Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","Raise public awareness","Random Selection","The World Cafe","National","Academic Institution","Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","Yes"
"BürgerForum 2011","fww5007","Initiated by German President Christian Wulff, the BürgerForum (CitizensForum) 2011 was designed to get German citizens from all over the country involved in identifying the most important challenges currently facing German society. The forum is a multi-layered process using multiple forms of discussion and deliberation on different levels of government involving varios stakeholders. The outcome is the ""bundesweite Bürgerprogramm"" or the Federal Citizens-Programm which details the six most important challenges and possible solutions in six different categories facing German society.","Problems and PurposeUnder the slogan “Future Needs Solidarity. Diversity Creates Chances.”, the BürgerForum 2011 did not address any specific problem or problems; it rather allowed participating citizens to identify problems as well as solutions they...","Thu, 12/13/2012 - 14:22","Germany","No","","","Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems), Planning (e.g. Urban planning, Transportation, etc.)","","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","National Government, Local Government (e.g. Village, Town, City)","Consultation (i.e. to advise decision makers), Raise public awareness, Develop individual capacities (e.g. skills, learning)","Open to all, Random Selection","Citizen Conferences","National","Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit), Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","National Government","Yes"
"BürgerForum Europa","patrizia.nanz","","Note: Anna Wohlfarth co-wrote the initial Participedia case on BürgerForum Europa.The Citizens’ Forum is a new form of participation developed by the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Ludwig-Erhard Foundation and the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation. It is a 6-8 week...","Wed, 11/04/2009 - 03:58","Germany","No","Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 17:00","Saturday, June 6, 2009 - 17:00","International Trade & Global Economy, Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems)","Facilitators","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit), Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","Consultation (i.e. to advise decision makers), Raise public awareness","Random Selection","Citizen Conferences","National","Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit), Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","National Government, Regional Government (e.g. State, Provincial, Territorial), Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","Yes"
"Canadian House of Commons Sub-Committee on Persons with Disabilities Public Consultations","Sot5063","This case study features the first online consultation of any parliamentary committee in Canada and among the few carried out by any legislature in the world. Launched on December 3, 2002, this 13 week consultation revolving the Canada Pension Plan Disability program (CPP(D)) was designed to foster public awareness and involvement in the work of the Canadian Parliament. Through the e-consultation, the Subcommittee on Persons with disabilities was able to conduct issue polling, storytelling and even allow participants to offer solutions to a wide range of issues revolving the CPP(D). ","DefinitionAn online consultation or e-consultation is the use of electronic computing and communication technologies in consultation processes. Online consultations can be effective tools in encouraging participation and gathering responses to...","Sat, 12/08/2012 - 17:00","Canada","No","","","Health, Human Rights, Other","","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation, Story-Telling, Other","National Government","Consultation (i.e. to advise decision makers), Co-governance (i.e. to share decision making with public authorities), Raise public awareness, Develop individual capacities (e.g. skills, learning)","Open to all with targeted recruitment","Online Consultations","National","National Government, Other","National Government","Yes"
"Deliberative Poll on Energy and Environmental Policy Options","Sadie Buckallew","In the summer of 2012, Japan's central government conducted a national deliberative poll in order to gauge public opinion about using nuclear energy as a source of the country's power. The results of the poll - 46.7% support for the zero-nuclear option - influenced the government to pledge zero nuclear dependency after 2030.","Problems and PurposeIn light of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the Japanese government looked to a representative sample - a ""scientific microcosm"" of citizens - in order to better understand and reflect public opinion in its nuclear power...","Sat, 12/01/2012 - 18:41","Japan","No","","","Environment, Other","","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","National Government","Consultation (i.e. to advise decision makers), Raise public awareness, Other","Other","Deliberative Polling","National","National Government","National Government, Academic Institution","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"
"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. ","The original version of this case study first appeared on Vitalizing Democracy in 2010 and was a contestant for the 2011 Reinhard Mohn Prize. It was originally submitted by Cristiano Ferri S. Faria.Legislative e-Democracia is driven by a belief that the...","Tue, 05/21/2013 - 12:10","Brazil","No","","","Identity & Diversity, Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems), Planning (e.g. Urban planning, Transportation, etc.)","","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","National Government","Consultation (i.e. to advise decision makers), Raise public awareness, Community building (e.g. social capital), Develop individual capacities (e.g. skills, learning)","Open to all, Open to all with targeted recruitment","Online Consultations, e-Deliberation™, Crowdsourcing","National","National Government","","Yes"
"Mitreden-U – Umweltdialog zur deutschen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie...","Christina Rucker","Mitreden-U provided Germany’s citizens with the possibility to influence the update of the official German sustainability policy through an online dialogue. Citizens could present ideas and suggestions about where more efforts are needed and what the politics should focus on in the next years in the field of environmental questions. Suggestions could be commented and rated on. All input has been analyzed and will be considered for the draft of the strategy paper. In addition, issues that have been much discussed in the online dialogue have been deepened in three offline focus discussions with participants of the online dialogue. Special efforts have been made to mobilize groups that are constantly underrepresented in participation projects: youth and migrants.","The original version of this case study first appeared on Vitalizing Democracy in 2010 and was a contestant for the 2011 Reinhard Mohn Prize. It was originally submitted by Christina Rucker.Mitreden-U provided Germany’s citizens with the possibility to...","Thu, 05/23/2013 - 11:34","Germany","No","","","Environment, Planning (e.g. Urban planning, Transportation, etc.)","","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","National Government","Consultation (i.e. to advise decision makers), Raise public awareness","Open to all, Open to all with targeted recruitment","","National","National Government","For Profit Business","Yes"
"National Assembly (Iceland, 2009)","Lsaylor","","Þjóðfundur - National Assembly (Iceland, 2009) History, Build-up to the assemblyDefinition, assembly creation and historyOriginating Entities and FundingParticipant SelectionDeliberation, Decisions, and Public InteractionInfluence, Outcomes, and...","Tue, 11/30/2010 - 21:59","Iceland","No","Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 08:00","Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 20:00","Education & Schools, Budgeting, Economic Development, Environment, Health, National & International Security, Planning (e.g. Urban planning, Transportation, etc.)","Trained Moderators","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","National Government, Community Based Organization, Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts), Individual","Raise public awareness","Random Selection, Appointment","Consensus Conference","National","Community Based Organization","Community Based Organization","Yes"
"National Performing Arts Convention, Taking Action Together (Denver, Colorado)","strycharz","","Problems and PurposeThe purpose of the 2008 National Performing Arts Convention in Denver, Colorado was to include the inter-disciplinary arts community in a 21st-Century Town Meeting in an effort to construct a common agenda, create a multi-disciplinary...","Fri, 12/23/2011 - 17:56","United States","Yes","","","Arts & Culture","","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","Other","Raise public awareness, Community building (e.g. social capital)","Open to all with targeted recruitment","21st Century Town Meeting","National","Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit)","","Yes"
"Open Government Directive, Obama Administration","Riley431","","Problems and purposeThe Open Government Directive is an effort by the Obama Administration to create an unprecedented level of openness in government. One of President Obama’s main goals since his first day in office has been to increase transparency,...","Tue, 12/07/2010 - 12:31","United States","Yes","Monday, December 7, 2009 - 16:00","","Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems), Planning (e.g. Urban planning, Transportation, etc.)","All governmental agencies","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","National Government","Raise public awareness","Open to all","Citizen Dialogue","National","National Government","National Government","Yes"
"Openparlamento","Alina Ostling","The OpenParlamento project was created by the OpenPolis association and launched in June 2009. OpenParlamento compiles information about all the legislative acts presented in the two chambers of the Italian parliament (in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate) on a daily basis. 

Its goal is to offer a user-friendly, transparent and impartial system of communication accessible to all citizens. All users can register for free and have the possibility to:

1) access information about individual MP, their activities in terms of legislative acts and parliamentary votes and statistics about MPs who are more/less present and active in the parliament, and most rebel to their party line when voting;
2) monitor the parliamentary activity, follow the activities of specific MP over time, and the processing of one or several acts in the Parliament;
3) participate with the possibility of amending, describing, commenting and voting the legislative acts directly online through a WIKI-type of software.
","Problems and PurposeThe association in charge of the Openparlamento project, OpenPolis, works with open data, carries out open source projects, and promotes open government. They aim at building autonomous political communities in which each member...","Wed, 06/05/2013 - 06:27","Italy","No","","","Community Development, Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems), Other","","Express opinions/preferences only, Listen/watch as spectator","","Raise public awareness, Community building (e.g. social capital), Develop individual capacities (e.g. skills, learning)","","","National","","","Yes"
"Our Budget, Our Economy (United States)","ebm","On June 26th, 2010 AmericaSpeaks held a National Town Meeting in 58 cities around the United States called Our Budget, Our Economy, where 3,500 Americans discussed possible solutions to America’s long term fiscal challenges.  A preliminary analysis from the MacArthur Foundation said:
“This event was meant to create a distinctive opportunity for ordinary Americans – not professional economists, policy makers, or political officials – to deliberate about these momentous choices according to their own values”.

The National Town Meeting took place in 19 communities across the United States as well as 38 volunteer-organized “community conversations”.  The 19 communities had a diverse set of participants, ensured by AmericaSpeaks, where as the 38 community conversations were organized by volunteers and thus may not have had a representational set of participants.","On June 26th, 2010 AmericaSpeaks held a National Town Meeting in 58 cities around the United States called Our Budget, Our Economy, where 3,500 Americans discussed possible solutions to America’s long term fiscal challenges.A preliminary analysis from...","Mon, 01/09/2012 - 08:36","United States","No","","","Budgeting","","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation, Express opinions/preferences only, Listen/watch as spectator, Formal Testimony","Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","Consultation (i.e. to advise decision makers), Raise public awareness, Community building (e.g. social capital), Develop individual capacities (e.g. skills, learning)","Open to all","Deliberation","National","Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit)","Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit), Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","Yes"
"POWER2010","Vivacions","","OverviewPOWER2010 is campaign that aims to collect the ideas and opinions of United Kingdom residents from all political persuasion in hopes of reforming democracy in the UK. The campaign was created by The Democratic Reform Company and formed...","Tue, 06/01/2010 - 04:41","United Kingdom","Yes","Friday, January 8, 2010 - 16:00","Saturday, January 9, 2010 - 16:00","Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems), Planning (e.g. Urban planning, Transportation, etc.)","Organizers","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","Raise public awareness","Random Selection","Deliberative Polling","National","Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","Academic Institution, Individual","Yes"
"Shaping America's Youth (United States)","hristovm","","Problems and PurposeObesity is still a prevailing problem in the United States. It is also the second leading cause of preventable death. Statistics show that about 33.8% of American adults are obese. The percentage of children who are considered...","Tue, 12/27/2011 - 17:37","United States","No","","","Children & Youth, Health","","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit), For Profit Business","Consultation (i.e. to advise decision makers), Direct delivery of public services (i.e. by entities other than government), Collaborative delivery of services with public authorities, Raise public awareness","Open to all with targeted recruitment","21st Century Town Meeting","National","Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit)","Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit), Individual, For Profit Business","Yes"
"The 2010 UK Youth Parliament at the House of Commons","Mkmunn","","Problems and PurposeThe UK Youth Parliament met in the House of Commons in London for the second time on October 29, 2010 to address five of the country’s highest concerns. Participants started to arrive at 9:15am and were officially welcomed to the...","Tue, 12/07/2010 - 05:07","United Kingdom","No","Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 17:00","Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 17:00","Education & Schools, Budgeting, Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems)","Youth Workers to the MYPS","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","National Government, Other","Raise public awareness","Open to all with targeted recruitment, Election","Parliamentary Procedure, Citizen Conferences","National","National Government","National Government","Yes"
"Urban Governance and Decentralisation Programme","KevinJFUm","With the adoption of the constitution in 1994, Ethiopia’s authoritarian, centralistic government was formally replaced by a federal state. It conceded wide-ranging rights to self-government to the regions and the cities. However, many municipalities lack the capacity to provide adequate services to their citizens. As Ethiopian cities are growing rapidly they are facing immense challenges, including increasing urban poverty, a high unemployment rate, low governance capacities, weak infrastructure and poor municipal finance management.","The original version of this case study first appeared on Vitalizing Democracy in 2010 and was a contestant for the 2011 Reinhard Mohn Prize. It was originally submitted by Christian Kreutz.With the adoption of the constitution in 1994, Ethiopia’s...","Mon, 06/17/2013 - 19:18","Ethiopia","Yes","","","Economic Development, Community Development, International Aid & Development, Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems), Planning (e.g. Urban planning, Transportation, etc.)","","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","National Government","Consultation (i.e. to advise decision makers), Raise public awareness, Community building (e.g. social capital)","","Constitution","National","National Government","International Organization","Yes"
"Australiens erstes Bürgerparlament (Canberra, Australien)","r.willers","Australiens erstes Bürgerparlament (auch Australiens Bürgerparlament oder ACP genannt) ist eine groß angelegte dreitägige Deliberation, die in Canberra zwischen willkürlich ausgewählten australischen Bürgern im Februar 2009 stattfand und von der newDemocracy Foundation organisiert wurde. Die Bürger wurden gebeten, sich der Frage zu stellen, wie die australische Regierung verbessert werden könnte um den Bürgern besser dienen zu können. Ihre Ergebnisse, 13 Vorschläge, wurden dem australischen Parlament präsentiert. Die Veranstaltung wurde minutiös aufgenommen und bietet eine wichtige Quelle für zukünftige Forschung. ","Australiens erstes Bürgerparlament (Canberra, Australien)Anmerkung: Dies ist die deutsche Übersetzung einer englischen Fallstudie, die von Vickiannelane am 17.03.2010 verfasst wurde. Die Originalversion ist abrufbar unter http://www.participedia.net/en/...","Wed, 04/03/2013 - 01:12","Vereinigte Staaten","No","Thursday, February 5, 2009 - 16:00","Sunday, February 8, 2009 - 16:00","Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems), Planning (e.g. Urban planning, Transportation, etc.)","Mostly volunteers w/ some paid","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","Academic Institution, Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit), Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","Raise public awareness","Random Selection","The World Cafe","National","Academic Institution","Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","Yes"
"BürgerForum Europa","admin","","BürgerForum EuropaAnmerkung: Dies ist die deutsche Übersetzung einer englischen Fallstudie, die von Patrizia Nanz mit Hilfe von Anna Wohlfarth am 04.11.2009 verfasst wurde. Die Originalversion ist abrufbar unter http://participedia.net/cases/b-rgerforum-...","Wed, 12/12/2012 - 15:33","Germany","No","Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 17:00","Saturday, June 6, 2009 - 17:00","International Trade & Global Economy, Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems)","Facilitators","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit), Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","Consultation (i.e. to advise decision makers), Raise public awareness","Random Selection","Citizen Conferences","National","Non-Governmental Organization (Non-profit), Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","National Government, Regional Government (e.g. State, Provincial, Territorial), Philanthropic Organization (i.e. dedicated to making monetary grants or gifts)","Yes"