Shifting the current paradigm of individual achievement towards collaboration and shared success.
There’s a disconnect happening across the country: our communities are rich in civic assets — like innovative problem solvers, passionate organizers, and willing volunteers — but leaders too seldom cooperate across divides of difference. Everyday citizens feel powerless to affect change on issues they care about. We need new approaches to cultivating community collaboration, both nationally and locally. Citizen University’s Civic Collaboratory model is designed to meet this need. It makes use of time-honored traditions from across cultures that build bonds of trust and affection. It embeds the practice of genuine mutual aid within community networks. It is an adaptable format that can be used in any community, big or small.
Renovate the Public Hearing is an initiative created by the Centre for Dialogue to act as a convener and catalyst to pilot changes to the provincial local government land-use public hearing requirements as a means to enhance social justice, community-building and strengthen democratic culture.
Every two years, the World Movement for Democracy’s Global Assembly brings together hundreds of democracy advocates from around the world to foster new networks for mutual solidarity and support across borders.
Curated definitions of key terms relevant to collective intelligence, democracy and governance.
The Deliberative Democracy Digest publishes a roundup of recent developments in the theory and practice of deliberative democracy. It is the companion piece of the academic publication Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly Journal of Public Deliberation).
