Assembly required - RSA Comment
Peter Spear added
Many protocols are already learning this lesson with regards to governance: discussion and consensus-building is a necessary precursor to voting. Likewise, discussion of values is as important, if not more so, than the act of voting itself. A value system is fostered through storytelling and negotiation in forums of public discourse.
Sam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
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With technologies that can now facilitate discussion and decision-making among groups both big and small, we must ask if we can build new kinds of intermediating digital spaces, ones that provide perspective, attention, and action on shared rather than personal problems, while at the same time accommodating discussion and deliberation at local as w... See more
Alex Pentland • Rediscovering the Pleasures of Pluralism: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Participation — Digitalist Papers
how she felt citizens’ assemblies can engage and enable the imagination. The first way, she told me, was that the inclusion of testimony. In a number of cases – most notably marriage equality and the Eighth Amendment, repealing the law to outlaw abortion – the assemblies invited individuals and constituency groups to share their personal experience
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
how she felt citizens’ assemblies can engage and enable the imagination. The first way, she told me, was that the inclusion of testimony. In a number of cases – most notably marriage equality and the Eighth Amendment, repealing the law to outlaw abortion – the assemblies invited individuals and constituency groups to share their personal experience
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
how she felt citizens’ assemblies can engage and enable the imagination. The first way, she told me, was that the inclusion of testimony. In a number of cases – most notably marriage equality and the Eighth Amendment, repealing the law to outlaw abortion – the assemblies invited individuals and constituency groups to share their personal experience
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Deeper than voting, deliberation is rich with information and knowledge. It allows participants to unpack and detail the differing rationales and perspectives that lead to different votes in the first place.
Umair Haque • The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business
Rediscovering the Pleasures of Pluralism: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Participation — Digitalist Papers
Alex Pentlanddigitalistpapers.com