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Le Grand Débat National
A national consultation initiative launched by the French government in January-March 2019 in response to the Yellow Vests protests, inviting citizens to discuss taxation, public services, environmental issues, and democratic governance. Employed multiple engagement channels including town halls, public kiosks, online questionnaires, mail-in forms, and citizens’ conferences featuring randomly selected regional participants. Demonstrated experiments in using multiple engagement methods to access different groups and piece outputs together.
Related Capabilities
Integrate wider-public
Informedness
Ability to provide those not in the room deliberating with opportunities to constructively and fairly contribute input into the process.
Manage subsidiarity
Scalability
Ability to host decentralized processes simultaneously or sequentially and productively distill them into one central process.