Re: DD best practices

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

Thanks a lot, Ted. I'm slow with taking in new information (sometimes I'm in
general a bit slow) but surely all this information is important - also
related to the EVERYONE'S A CITIZEN BABY project where of course we will
investigate DD for the educated (a.o. referendums) as well as DD for the
poorer people (a.o. participative budgeting projects).

If you find the time, please hook up with Leopoldo (apologies that I don't
point out the way directly) and post concise information on the WDDF
bulletin board, as well as do this on the WDDM forum.

In return  ( ;-), the WDDF also has an article on the very, very interesting
new electoral system of Hamburg.

I think the correct URL address is:
http://64.62.195.58/wddf/

Hearty regards (Dutch: Hartelijke groeten),
Filia




op 20-04-2005 16:21 schreef Ted Becker op becketl(at)auburn.edu:

> Hi Filia:
>
> I have been reading your dispatches.   You sound like you really care
> and try hard.  So, I'll answer you directly on this.
>
> If I remember correctly, their website is www.citizensassembly.bc.ca  If
> it isn't that, tell me and I'll find it.  But you can just Google
> "British Columbia Citizens Assembly" and get to their website.   It's a
> helluva model.  They pretty much ignore me, but I don't ignore them.  I
> will have a big article on them up on the web on May 6 in my new online
> publication, The Journal of Public Deliberation (another article on
> what's going on in Porto Alegre, another in West Australia).   Since you
> don't know about it, do go find out and I'm sure you'll be impressed.
> It's a state of the art application of how to put deliberative democracy
> and direct democracy together....I'd say as good as the Irish/N.Ireland
> transnational referenda on the Good Friday Accords.
>
> As for Porto Alegre...I'm just now getting to work with a prof at U of
> Toronto who is studying many of the offshoots of Porto Alegre
> Participatory Budgeting (inclulding one in Montevideo, Uruguay)...and
> when I get more info on that I'll be glad to share it with you.   He is
> focusing in on how empowering they are to the individual citizen...not
> on the impact of them on policy and planning.
>
> As you can tell from my last email to everyone, I think you folks in The
> Netherlands are developing a Jungian collective subconscious on national
> direct democracy....just hang in there....it's coming....and you will
> play an important part in it.
>
> Ted.
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