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🎬Training for a New Democracy: now with subtitles in Georgian and Russian!

From Budapest to Arizona, learn how we train professionals to run impactful Citizens' Assemblies. Listen to empowered participants and their experience of our Citizens' Assembly Schools.

▶️youtube.com/watch?v=75DF18GRV_

🔤 Translated already into 8 languages!

In Fukushima's Hirata Village, citizens are using smartphone apps to maintain infrastructure by conducting 3D scans and uploading photos for cryptocurrency rewards. This innovative approach not only involves residents in infrastructure upkeep but also eases the burden on administrative units. #smartphones #infrastructuremaintenance #cryptocurrency #citizenparticipation

joelhu.medium.com/embracing-te

In order to legitimise itself, the EU is increasingly relying on direct citizen participation. But by bypassing intermediary actors such as parties and social movements, it ultimately weakens the public debate that is necessary for a vibrant democracy.

By ALVARO OLEART

#citizenparticipation #CitizenAssemblies #participatorydemocracy
foederalist.eu/2023/11/democra

www.foederalist.eu‘Democracy without politics’? Contesting the EU’s conception of institutionalised citizen participationEin Blog über die Demokratie in Europa

Now the Dutch government #RutteIV has fallen, everybody seems to be talking about the potential results of next elections, which party will be the biggest and how the future government could look like.

I played a game of Poker tonight and now I am wondering: Do there yet exist companies that facilitate betting on election results, just like one can bet on sport games?

It sure would be one way to include more people with their democracies.