We know we can scale up democratic exercises like voting to embrace thousands or millions of people. But what about scaling up democratic exercises like conversation, dialogue, deliberation, and choice-creation? We know how to create generative – even wisdom-generating – conversations with a dozen or a hundred people in a …
Three different journalistic initiatives all involved a whole country witnessing seriously diverse citizens truly hearing each other and connecting across political divides. Only one …
People without special authority but with real interest in their community and larger social issues are working together to do what’s needed …
Majoritarian voting can get us to a workable answer quickly without having to worry about minorities and concerns. But sometimes some of …
This morning an astrophysicist’s essay brought up for me my long-time suspicion that “saving the world” is more about saving ourselves than …
Groups use various methods to live together, to think together, and to come together to get work done. My new series of …
This post is a fundraiser. You’ll read about some of the Co-Intelligence Institute’s leading-edge activities and how specific people treasure our valuable contributions. …
How could we generate vTaiwan-like citizen- and stakeholder-engaged government elsewhere? In this post I explore the nature of government engagement with participatory …
Here are dozens of links I used in my explorations of vTaiwan and my invitation for you to explore further one of …
Here I describe how Taiwan’s “gov-zero” mobilized 9700 people to digitize 30,000 campaign finance records in 24 hours… and how vTaiwan mobilized …