The Change Handbook is a comprehensive guide to a wide range
of methods of organization and community change designed for
quick access to information from today's foremost practitioners
of organizations and community change methods.
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Two recent applications of the Deliberative Poll technique
pioneered by Professor James Fishkin of Stanford University have
been made in Omagh, Northern Ireland and Regione Lazio in Italy.
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iCommunity.TV is a new website launched by eparticipation
expert Chris Haller and is envisioned as an online host for
online dialogues.
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The Virtual Agora Project, launched in the Fall of 2002 at
Carnegie Mellon University, sought to develop and test video,
audio, and text-based tools to support collaborative information
sharing and structured public discussion about civic issues.
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The Deliberative
Democracy Consortium (DDC) is a network of researchers and
practitioners working together to strengthen the field of
deliberative democracy. The Consortium seeks to support
research activities and to advance practice at all levels of
government, in North America and around the world.
Learn more about the Deliberative Democracy
Consortium and our support for the nascent, growing
movement for deliberative democracy throughout the
world: our mission, theory of change and core activities
the Consortium and its network are carrying out to
promote research and practice.
The Consortium offers numerous resources online to advance
knowledge-building efforts, including
The Deliberative Democracy Consortium undertakes ongoing
activities to promote the theory and application of
deliberative democracy and to advance research and
practice in the field. Learn about our current projects
to build knowledge, link to government and strengthen
online deliberation.
Deliberation is an approach to decision-making that
involves an informed public, thinking critically together
and discussing options from multiple points of view.
It encourages enlarged perspectives, opinions, and
understandings and can result in better decisions and
policies.
