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Dimension: Legibility

Ensure transparency

Ability for the process to be open to the public (where possible given privacy considerations).

Maturity:
Medium
Importance:
Medium
Opportunity:
High
Neglectedness:
Low
Transnational:
Low

How this is performed now...

  • Process organizers Process organizers determine their openness to observation and the extent to which they will make process documentation public.
  • Citizens' assembly organizers Citizens’ assemblies organizers allow public observers under reasonable conditions of distance and non-involvement. Items like background documents, speaker lists, agendas, final outputs and commissioning authority response documents are usually public. Governance processes may involve independent guarantors witnessing key ‘closed room’ decisions.

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Practice

Five lessons from the College of Guarantors of the French Citizens’ Convention on the End of Life

Key insights from France's Citizens' Convention on the End of Life (December 2022-April 2023) including: managing disengaged participants seeking media attention, balancing complexity and clarity in final reports, reconsidering voting procedures and wording, clarifying organizational responsibili...
Min Reuchamps, Bernard Reber, Marjan H. Ehsassi and Agnese Bertello

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