deliberative democracy

The Problem With Protest Rallies

by Brian on 01-23-2010

in canada,civics,creativity,web

First I’m going to straight-up admit I don’t have the disposition for them. I just don’t like sitting or standing in any audience or crowd. But I have reasons as well. In a way, the bigger the crowd, the less social it becomes. Of course it’s social in a really basic way, but there isn’t [...]

Tagged as: collaboration, collaborative democracy, deliberative democracy, democracy, politics, prorogation

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Collaborating Openly on 21st Century Government

by Brian on 12-22-2009

in business,civics,web

Some thoughts culminating out of the last post about how open standards emerge… a recent post by fellow Londoner Bill Wittur on some open government basics… the latest post on the Google blog defining their notion of openness… and a book I perused a couple days ago by Beth Noveck on open collaborative government. There’s no way I [...]

Tagged as: beth noveck, collaboration, collaborative democracy, deliberative democracy, democracy, google, open government, open source, open standards, policy, pragmatism, think21st, wiki government

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Envisioning London’s Downtown Future

by Brian on 07-30-2009

in civics,london

I deliberately called this “Envisioning London’s Downtown Future” rather than merely “Envisioning the Future of Downtown London” because I believe London’s future is downtown… Not everyone would agree (see Dan Brown’s column challenging the notion that downtown is the heart of the city, discussed here), but I wasn’t convinced. Even detractors have to admit it’s [...]

Tagged as: deliberative democracy, downtowns, neighbourhoods, pedestrians, planning, social media, traffic, urban, urban design, urban planning

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Processing Deliberative Democracy

by OpenConceptual on 07-28-2009

in concepts

I’m becoming a real fan of Daniel Little’s UnderstandingSociety blog. Here he considers “how good is deliberative democracy?”: The approach that starts and ends with voting among alternatives has a major shortcoming: no one gets a chance to make persuasive arguments to other citizens; no one has the opportunity of having his/her own beliefs challenged; [...]

Tagged as: articulation, deliberation, deliberative democracy, democracy, mindsets, objectivity, process, self-deception, social media, web

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