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Deliberative
Democracy | Bulletin No. 1:
October 3,
2002
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This fall is shaping up to be incredibly busy for the deliberative democracy
movement. There are a number of notable events taking place, and we hope
you will be a part of them.
An important development close to home is that, in an effort to reach out to a
broader audience, what was the “Taking Democracy to Scale Bulletin”
has become, simply, the “Deliberative Democracy Bulletin,” now a
tool of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium
<http://deliberative-democracy.net/>. We hope that this change will
both promote the Consortium and appeal to a broad base of practitioners,
researchers, funders, and government officials working in the
field.
If you work with
individuals who should know about the movement, please encourage them to
register online at
<http://deliberative-democracy.net/about.html>
~ the Editor
1 | Issue
Framing
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Thanks to Christopher Kelley (Program Associate, Kettering Foundation) for this
month’s d-d.net ‘think piece.’ For full ext of the article
visit
<http://deliberative-democracy.net/cart3.html>
Check in for upcoming articles from Study Circles Resource Center and
Australia.
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Carnegie Mellon Wins NSF Grant
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The National Science Foundation has approved a three-year $2.1 million grant to
support a Carnegie Mellon University team of "electronic democracy"
researchers.
The research
team, led by faculty members Peter M. Shane, Peter Muhlberger and Robert
Cavalier, seeks to develop and test software that would enable large numbers of
citizens to use the Internet more effectively to learn about, deliberate and act
upon community issues.
The
announcement came just days after the Institute for the Study of Information
Technology and Society’s Community Connections project hosted
“Prospects for Electronic Democracy,” an international conference on
eDemocracy. For more information on the InSites conference visit
<http://communityconnections.heinz.cmu.edu/insites/about_news.jsp#conference>
For more information on the NSF’s promising investment, visit
<http://www.cmu.edu/PR/press_releases/020919_cdforum.html>
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| National Conference On Dialogue and
Deliberation
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The first-ever national conference on dialogue and deliberation will open
Friday, October 4 at the Radisson Hotel in Old Town Alexandria. With more
than 200 participants registered to participate in the 3-day series of workshops
and plenary meetings, the event promises to add new knowledge and energy toward
building a culture of democratic dialogue in the
U.S.
For full conference
details, visit
<http://thataway.org/conference/about/about_main.htm>
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| Deliberation on the Agenda at
GO2
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When the 2002 Conference on Global Governance, “Civil Society and the
Democratization of Global Governance” kicks off later this month, the
movement to promote deliberative democratic practices will be represented by
some of its leading spokespersons, including Generon, AmericaSpeaks, the
Democracy Collaborative, MIT/Department of Urban Studies and Planning, CIVICUS
and more.
Visit
<http://www.fimcivilsociety.org/g02/> for full details and
registration.
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Canada Explores Large Scale National
Deliberation
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Later this month, the founder and president of AmericaSpeaks, Dr. Carolyn J.
Lukensmeyer, will consult with senior Canadian government leaders and
parliamentarians around options to apply the AmericaSpeaks 21st Century Town
Meeting to a Canadian
context.
Watch this space for
CanadaSpeaks! To learn more about the AmericaSpeaks 21st Century Town
Meeting visit
<http://www.americaspeaks.org/about.html>
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| Web Lab Wraps Online
Dialogue
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On August 12, Web Lab closed its online citizen dialogues around the future of
Lower Manhattan. After two weeks of dialogue, in which more than 800
participants in 26 online groups shared ideas and voted on their priorities for
the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan, the organizers integrated the results of the
dialogues into a final report that will be seen by the city’s top
decision-makers in planning.
For more information or to view the final report, visit
<http://dialogues.listeningtothecity.org/>
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