From: | "M. Kolar" <wddm(at)mkolar.org> |
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Date: | Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:01:23 -0700 |
Subject: | Re: [WDDM] D3 |
Hi Nico:........
Good to hear from you...and welcome to the movement...all parts of it
you mentioned....plus another part that I'm gonna inform you about and
ask you to think of how to include it some way in your website.
When a number of us "global" DD types met in Pribram, near Prague in
1999 or 2000....I forget which....there was some debate and disagreement
over the importance of adding some kind of formal "deliberation" to the
I+R process....at one or more points.
The disussion revealed a fissure in the development of more and better
direct democracy in the world and what has occurred is that there really
are two movements, the direct democracy movement, which your website is
part of....and a great addition I might add...and the delib dem
movement...which is growing beyond belief. For a view of that, look at
www.auburn.edu/jpd
Some in Pribram, including myself, Ned Crosby, Lyn Carson and Jiri
Polak...all agree that what we really need is a combination of the
movements into what I call D3, or DDD, "direct deliberative democracy."
What this does it to emphasize direct democratic components to rep dem
systems that include either face to face delibs, online delibs, or some
combo thereof.
I'd love to write about your website for the Journal of Public
Deliberation....but there is no option for deliberation on your citizens
initiative system. One place that some have suggested a delib section
can fit into the I+R process is to let citizens discuss and edit the
proposition...before it becomes the official petition that people
finally sign up for. Do you think this might be possible to do within
your system....if you agree it might be a helpful addition?
Let me know. We have two parallel movements that need much more
intersection....and I'm in them both.
Ted.
That's a really good point, Ted!"Nicolas Durand" <nicolas(at)enitiatives.ch> 04/19/07 2:40 PM >>>