What a day! 1. The 🇨🇦 gov has tabled its online harms bill that takes up many of the most important recommendations of the Citizens' Assemblies on Democratic Expression commissioncanada.ca ✔️ New Regulator ✔️ Risk assessments ✔️ Duty to act responsibly ✔️ Child protection

It's happening. On the 20th anniversary of the BC Citizens' Assembly, we're bringing more than two hundred democracy building organizations to Vancouver this September. Join us! #deliberativewave drdvancouver.org

NEW Circular Power Politics: A Politician's Guide To Five Opportunities To Lead With And For The People Very excited to put this out into the world today - the key output of a year of work with Omezzine Khélifa Lisa Witter Apolitical Foundation Link and summary in 🧵

📢 European Democracy Organisations call on EU to prioritise citizen deliberation! ⭐️41 organisations, including DemocracyNext, urge the EU to plan ahead, integrate, and support deliberative processes. 📚Read the letter & share if you agree: bit.ly/49YED9L

Today we celebrate the restoration of our independence in 1990. Freed from Russia's grasp we prospered. We know the value of freedom very well, that's why we support others who fight for theirs.

🌟 Join OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives European Parliament at the "Parliament Innovations for Democracy Support" conference! Discover how parliaments can reshape democracy through innovations like deliberative assemblies or digital technologies. 🗓️March 20/21 📍Brussels Register: ep-events.secure.europarl.europa.eu/events/Innovat…

🔥Top départ de la 4ème édition de la #springschool du #G1000 avec une présentation des principes clefs de ce courant fondamental de transformation politique par Ieva Česnulaitytė DemocracyNext

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

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” ⬆️

Democratizing the corporation is an essential key to a democratic and sustainable future. Just got my first copy!!! Thanks Verso Books What a line-up of great scholars-discussants 🙏 Join us for online book launch on April 11! Thanks to #ErikOlinWright #DemocratizingWork

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 DemocracyNext IWM

"Dem Rat von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern eine Chance geben" - ein Gastkommentar von Europe's Futures Fellow (ERSTE Foundation) Ieva Česnulaitytė in Die Presse: diepresse.com/18343737/dem-r…

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.

NEW from us New Citizen Project With big questions piling up and trust in decline, we reckon we need a framework for making big decisions WITH people, not FOR them We call it RAPID Democracy… Read on for an intro 🧵 or check out the full report newcitizenproject.com/rapid

Our DemocracyNext Assembling an Assembly Guide is now available in Basque, translated by our friends at Arantzazulab 🎉 Stay tuned for more translations to come!

🎉ALL IN! RE-DESIGNING DEMOCRACY The first exhibition linked up to DemocracyNext 's collaboration with Vera Sacchetti & Amelie Klein, the BUNDESKUNSTHALLE & Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden opened this week. ➡️ bundeskunsthalle.de/en/demokratie (photos Markus Miessen)

Shortly before the European elections, the Europe's Futures Annual Symposium took place in Cres, where the current cohort of Europe's Futures Fellows presented the results of their research to a gathering of alumni network members and project partners. The recordings of the

You don't "join" the Soviet Union. They invade you, send trains full of your people to prison camps, hold a fake referendum and pretend to save you from nazis by killing you. Sounds familiar? Moscow has been using the same script since the night of June 14th 1941. 🇱🇹🕯

Thanks to all for such stimulating contributions to our DemocracyNext & University College Dublin workshop on institutionalising deliberative assemblies, co-organised with david farrell & Ieva Česnulaitytė 🙌❤️

Muy complacido de estar en Washington para, junto con personas trabajando en el campo, pensar en una historia alternativa a la de la "crisis de la democracia". Gracias NEDemocracy Enrique Bravo