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Support participation
Ability to provide accessible, welcoming and compelling processes enabling diverse participation.
How this is performed now...
- Process organizers Process organizers provide basic process information, additional context, and address accessibility needs proactively or when onboarding participants.
- Citizens' assembly organizers Citizens’ assemblies organizers have a ‘concierge’ service for participants, which helps address any reservations, context setting, or hurdles that might come up (OECD, 2021), but this is difficult to scale. Online or predominantly digital processes will naturally exclude possible participants who have low levels of digital literacy or low levels of access to the necessary technology. Some processes have trialled providing in-person support to provide this tech and help operate it, but this is resource-intensive.
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Experimental Practice
Community Host model
A four-step method for recruiting globally representative participants: random location lottery using population data, recruiting local community hosts, having hosts recruit diverse local candidates, then using sortition with stratification to select final participants. The 2021 Global Assembly u...
Research
Financial Compensation for Citizens' in Mini-publics: Comparing Australia and Germany
Compares financial compensation approaches in Australian and German deliberative mini-publics.
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Related goals and research questions
Goal: Participants in remote regions with limited education technical capacity or supportive infrastructure who can meaningfully participate.
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