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Scale out
Ability to accommodate large numbers of people into a process whilst retaining high deliberative quality.
How this is performed now...
- Process organizers Process organizers take processes that work for smaller numbers and apply techniques that support the efficient and fair inclusion of more people. There are early explorations into how digital technologies can support this, but real ground-changing work is limited.
- Citizens' assembly organizers Citizens' assembly organizers use techniques like dividing responsibilities for entire sections of the issue into subgroups and using technology to more efficiently aggregate views to include more people directly in the deliberative process.
Related Resources
Experimental Practice
G1000's large-scale deliberative process
704 randomly selected citizens partook in a Citizens' Summit held on November 2011 around social security, immigration and distribution of wealth in times of financial crisis. More than 6000 participants took part in an earlier phase to select those 3 topics.
Research
Five dimensions of scaling democratic deliberation: With and beyond AI
This paper provides an expanded definition of scale for democratic deliberation by breaking down the concept across five dimensions: scaling out (increasing deliberator numbers), scaling up (higher governance levels), scaling across (increasing number of processes), scaling deep (increasing impac...
Experimental Practice
Stanford Deliberative Polling Methodology
A random, representative sample is first polled on the targeted issues. After this baseline poll, members of the sample are invited to gather at a single place for a weekend in order to discuss the issues. Carefully balanced briefing materials are sent to the participants and are also made public...
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