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What methods can help the wider public understand how and why a process is set-up?

Related Goals

Non-participants who understand and buy into the process.

Related Capabilities

Inform wider-public

Ability to communicate the “deliberative journey” of a smaller group process to the broader population (especially critical when providing ways for a mass public to participate back with their feedback, perspectives, or direct power via referendums).

Related Existing Resources

CESE Communications Channels

CESE Communications Channels

Cortico Conversation Library

A nonprofit platform amplifying underheard voices through community conversations, following a three-step process: organizing small-group conversations with recorded stories, using human-led analysis supported by AI tools for sensemaking, and creating media outputs incorporating actual voices. Th...

“Co-construction” in deliberative democracy: lessons from the French Citizens’ Convention for Climate

French Citizens Convention on Climate, in which the general public were quite sceptical of the process, albeit this was because some thought that the government would just cherry pick what they wanted