In 2013 Bayside City Council in Victoria, Australia, commissioned a community panel of 30 citizens to deliberate on the Council's options for childcare. The main objective of the process was to decide whether the Council should continue to operate two childcare centres in Bayside and it came after the council...
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...
Problems and Purpose The CIVICUS World Assembly is a place for strengthening the rights of people around the world, to “exist, express and engage.” It involves the civil society, government, business and media in the processes it takes to make the steps towards this strengthening. These world assemblies provide a...
Their mission is to ‘engage the people of Austin in meaningful civic dialogue focused on public issues, hosted by community volunteers across the entire city’ (Conversation Corps, 2017b).