🇫🇷 French president Emmanuel Macron has pledged to organise a new national Citizens' Assembly in 2024, following the success of the last Assembly on end-of-life.

This and more in our latest newsletter 👇
demnext.substack.com/p/macron-prais…

NEW EVENT Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society! Join RSM on May 8 for a conversation on Democracy and Technology w/ Lessig 🇺🇦 and Claudia Chwalisz (CEO of DemocracyNext), moderated by RSM’s Manon Revel.

RSVP here: rebootingsocialmedia.org/events/democra…

The Urbanist: Monocle’s Carlota Rebelo speaks with Claudia Chwalisz of DemocracyNext about democratising city planning and to Anand Menon of UK in a Changing Europe about how parties choose their candidates. Plus: Guy De Launey on who controls #Belgrade
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Join our next event: 'Climate Assemblies: Emerging Trends, Challenges and Opportunities'

🗓️ May 2nd
🕑 14:00-15:30 (CET)
📍 Online

🔗 Read more and register here: knoca.eu/events/climate…

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#ClimateAssemblies #ClimateGovernance #ClimateAction #DelibWave

📅 2 May, 14.00-15.30 CET

Join Graham Smith, Erica Hope & me for a discussion about the emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities for Climate Assemblies

Register here ➡️ knoca.eu/events/climate…

#delibwave #sortition #deliberation

Johan Galster and I had the chance to share how Citizens' Assemblies have the power to systematically change the way we take decisions about our cities. Check out the episode below to learn how Copenhagen is doing this and how DemocracyNext wants to help more cities do the same!

En automne 2024 se tiendront les élections législatives en #Autriche 🇦🇹, l'occasion pour Ieva Česnulaitytė DemocracyNext de rappeler qu'il y a une matière renouvelable, inépuisable et non encore exploitée à mobiliser : l'intelligence collective citoyenne au-delà des élections.

Plenty of food for thought from Demos’ excellent panel on #CollaborativeDemocracy - Apolitical Foundation’s Lisa Witter Claudia Chwalisz from DemocracyNext and Georgia Gould, Leader of Camden Council - very firmly chaired by Demos’ Miriam Levin #CollaborativeDemocracy Network

As divisions and polarisation increase in anticipation of upcoming Austrian parliamentary elections in autumn 2024, Citizens’ Assemblies could be just what’s needed to defuse tensions. More in my op-ed in Die Presse (in German): tinyurl.com/mr2ajkj5
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What role can citizens' assemblies play in South African democracy?

In their new article for Daily Maverick, Damien du Preez argues that 'citizens’ assemblies empower us to explore new ways to develop and channel a more authentic democratic spirit.'

dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-0…

🤔 Have questions about Citizens’ Assemblies and how they work?

1️⃣ See if you can find a quick answer in our Assembling an Assembly Guide: assemblyguide.demnext.org

2️⃣ If you need further advice, drop in this week for a Q&A with our team! demnext.org/events

Want to know more about the Citizens’ Assemblies on democratising the museum that DemocracyNext organised in Dresden and Bonn last year?

Join Vera Sacchetti and Thomas Geisler Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden on Monday 👀

Event suggestion👀
Join a webinar exploring how #museums can become more #democratic and relevant by welcoming Citizens’ Assemblies. Organised by Acesso Cultura with representatives from Kunstgewerbemuseum and DemocracyNext.
📆 8 April at 17:00 CET
More 👉accessculture-portugal.org/the-activist-m…

Thank you to our partners at C40 Cities for hosting a great webinar with DemocracyNext about Democratising City Planning tonight!

Interesting to hear from Monika Komorowska from Warsaw and Daniel Fusca from Toronto as well.

Read our DemNext paper ➡️demnext.org/projects/cities

49% of the world's population will go to the polls in 2024, making it a *huge* year to learn from democracies across the world & local innovation in the UK.

Join us on April 8th to discuss how we can bridge the divide between politicians and innovators👇
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🇬🇧 In the UK, did the Labour Party The Labour Party really backtrack on an initiative to launch Citizens' Assemblies within one day?

Unlikely.

Moving forward, Assemblies must be organized in a transparent and non-partisan way. Read our deep dive: demnext.substack.com/p/its-a-debate…

Looking forward to this! If you're in London, come join us on 8 April with Demos DemocracyNext Lisa Witter Apolitical Foundation Georgia Gould Miriam Levin

Great to be in Eupen at the G1000 Deliberative Democracy spring school talking about how design, run, and follow-up on a Citizens' Assembly and introducing DemocracyNext's Assembling an Assembly guide! You can check it out here: assemblyguide.demnext.org

Useful summary and breakdown of recent The Labour Party and media discussions about citizens' assemblies by DemocracyNext demnext.substack.com/p/its-a-debate…

Insightful intervention from Jonathan Mosković, who is behind the mixed deliberative committees of the Francophone Brussels Parliament, on how citizen deliberation impacts the political culture: “MPs realised that what they loose in power, they gain in legitimacy” ⬆️