Contribute your ideas to DDC researcher and practitioner meeting

People at the workshop Deliberative Democracy: Connecting Research and Practice are asking for your thoughts on developments in deliberative democracy and key research questions. They welcome input from the C2D2 community and we hope you will send them your good thoughts.

A fascinating meeting on the future of democratic governance will be taking place this week in Sydney, Australia - and you can participate (without making the 20-hour plane flight!).

Join the participants at http://bit.ly/eggP8V - or by using the Twitter hashtag #delibworkshop - and share your thoughts on the following questions:

• What are the exciting developments in deliberative democracy? (research or practice)
• What research questions, if answered, would allow deliberative democracy processes to contribute to resolving the complex challenges of our time?

People who are physically at the meeting will be reading your contributions, and making their own, starting on Tuesday in the late afternoon Eastern time (Wednesday morning in Sydney).

To see the comments that others have already made, click on the headline for the relevant post at http://bit.ly/eggP8V.

Later in the week, there will also be a process by which you can vote on which of the research proposals developed at the meeting should receive funding.

Dr. Lyn Carson of the University of Western Sydney is the driving force behind the meeting, which is supported by Australia’s Newdemocracy Foundation. Ron Lubensky of the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy has spearheaded the online elements of the gathering.

Hope to see you online -

Matt Leighninger
Executive Director
Deliberative Democracy Consortium (Washington, DC)
131 Chedoke Avenue
Hamilton, ON
L8P 4P2
Canada
905-972-0550
www.deliberative-democracy.net