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Deliberative
Democracy | Bulletin No. 2:
October 25,
2002
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Deliberative Citizen’s Forums and Interest
Groups
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Thanks to Carolyn Hendriks, of the Social and Political Theory Program, Research
School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University, 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.
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Deliberative Democracy Consortium Awarded Grant
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The Steering Committee of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium is pleased to
announce that the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has approved a two-year
grant to support its activities. The two year, $400,000 grant
approved for AmericaSpeaks is to support the work of three organizations: the
Deliberative Democracy Consortium, the Community Building Institute, and
AmericaSpeaks.
Among its
immediate activities under the grant, the Steering Committee will hire staff and
conduct a two-day strategy retreat this year. If you would like a full
description of the position announcement, please visit
<http://deliberative-democracy.net/position_announcement.html>
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| National Conference On Dialogue and
Deliberation
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In case you could not be there, the National Conference on Dialogue &
Deliberation [October 4-6, 2002] was a highly participatory, high-energy event
which brought dialogue leaders together for the first time across models,
topics, regions, applications and philosophies for a unique learning, networking
and planning experience.
Many
new connections were made among dialogue practitioners and theorists and new
collaborative projects were initiated. More details about these will be
available on the conference web site
soon.
A number of new task
forces were initiated by conference participants. Groups were formed to begin
working on such important issues as staying connected and establishing a network
for the dialogue & deliberation community; connecting D&D to the arts;
convening nation-wide dialogues on Iraq, expanding and respecting diversity;
marketing dialogue to the media and the public; developing a toolbox of D&D
tools for practitioners; and integrating D&D into educational
environments.
For more
information, please visit
<http://thataway.org/conference/whats/whats_main.htm>
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| Deliberation Down Under
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For colleagues in Australia and Australasia, the International Association for
Public Participation is sponsoring a national conference,
Community Consultation:
Building Democracy or Manufacturing
Compliance?
Among topics for discussion
are the following: does the nature of your business call for you to consult with
the community? Are you a member of a community called upon to participate in the
decision making about projects that impact or may impact upon you? Are you
involved in the conduct of community consultation
processes?
For more
information visit
<http://www.iap2.org/chapters/austchptr.html>
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| Online Working Group
Formed
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The online working group of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium is a
collection of researchers, practitioners and funders who seek to advance the
development and use of Internet technologies to enhance deliberative
democracy.
The working group
was formed immediately after a group of leading thinkers and doers came together
at the National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation
(http://thataway.org/). The concept for the working group came from
Deliberative Democracy Consortium (http://Deliberative-Democracy.net), and is
linked to the Consortium.
For
more information about the work of this new group, contact Michael Weiksner
<mike@e-thepeople.org>
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| Danish Board of Technology Winds Down Hearing on
Aging
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An increasing part of the population [of Denmark] is made up of older people.
And they are being supported by a decreasing number of people of working age.
This fact gives rise to concern about the future of the social-welfare state. Is
technological development capable of putting the older people to good
'use'?
The project's
intention is to arouse attention and to engender an understanding of the changes
resulting from an aging population. The project is conducting hearing
number 4 of 4 this week, and will end with a seminar for Members of
Parliament
in
January.
At this point the
only material about this project is in Danish. Please contact project
manager, Ida E. Andersen
<ia@tekno.dk> for more
information.
For a
description of the Citizen
Hearings of the Danish Board of
technology, visit
<http://www.tekno.dk/subpage.php3?survey=16&language=uk>
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