Re: WDDM future

[Filia den Hollander <fkdh(at)xs4all.nl>]

> The British Columbia Citizens
> Assembly (which needs to be widely emulated), and an international
> economic boycott movement that is in a developmental stage.

Can you elaborate on this? I'm a complete laywoman here. Also, I know of
Porto Alegre but I don't know of other Participatory Budgeting projects in
Latin America. Can you give us info's on the level of concrete texts or
websites?

Regards,
Filia



op 19-04-2005 22:40 schreef Ted Becker op becketl(at)auburn.edu:

> For starters, Participatory Budgeting (many projects now going in Latin
> America...started in Porto Alegre), The British Columbia Citizens
> Assembly (which needs to be widely emulated), and an international
> economic boycott movement that is in a developmental stage.  I also
> think that the IRI Europe is doing good public education and that Mehr
> Demokratie has been and remains a political  leader in this field.  I
> was pleasantly surprised that they included Peter Dienel, the father of
> the Planning Cells--a very direct democratic method of city planning--in
> a recent conference in Berlin, thus bringing together the direct
> democracy movement and the deliberative democracy movement...a too rare
> occurrence.  As for the Netherlands, well, I hope the referendum
> movement there  is not satisfied with what their politicians have thus
> far yielded.