The butterfly of citizen deliberative democracy is emerging around the world…
Powerful elite think tanks and mainstream media are beginning to favorably notice citizen deliberative initiatives that continue to rapidly emerge and evolve …
Introduction to Participatory Sustainability – Part 1
Very few people have read my compact book PARTICIPATORY SUSTAINABILITY. Recently, on re-reading it, I was surprised to find it contains a …
Democracy of Citizens, Democracy of Stakeholders
Some people think that democratic decisions should be made by everyone in the community or country – or their representatives. Others think …
Six Sources of Governance
Governance actually involves more than governMENT. Here we explore six approaches to getting things done together as whole communities and societies: Shared …
Report from 2047: Life in a wise democracy
What would life in the public realm be like in a wise democracy? Let’s indulge our imaginations for a moment…. I asked …
Deep Democracy and Community Wisdom
A community has more potential capacity to generate wisdom than any individual. But that potential can only be realized to the extent …
Sprouting self-organized collaborative governance
People without special authority but with real interest in their community and larger social issues are working together to do what’s needed …
vTaiwan (Part 5) – Lessons for Government-Engaged Popular Deliberation
How could we generate vTaiwan-like citizen- and stakeholder-engaged government elsewhere? In this post I explore the nature of government engagement with participatory …
vTaiwan (Part 4) – Online sources for my research
Here are dozens of links I used in my explorations of vTaiwan and my invitation for you to explore further one of …
vTaiwan (Part 3) – Two Stories of Tapping the Wisdom and Resourcefulness of the Whole
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 …