In the Fall of 2024, thirty every-day residents of Deschutes County came together to help find solutions in the region’s first-ever Civic Assembly.
Central Oregon’s historically high rates of homelessness among youth and families have risen dramatically since 2020. In the Fall of 2024, thirty every-day residents of Deschutes County came together to help find solutions in the region’s first-ever Civic Assembly. After five days of deep learning and deliberation, the delegates found supermajority consensus on twenty two recommendations. Local officials are turning many of those suggestions into real policies and programs in an inspiring act of citizen-led democracy.
Zeitgeist is a public-deliberation platform from Nesta's Centre for Collective Intelligence Design that combines qualitative group discussion with quantitative polling in one experience, letting governments and charities run scalable, engaging consultations.
Spanish nonprofit that recruits and selects participants by civic lottery for the European Citizens' Panels, trains the national network of recruiters, and campaigns to bring deliberative democracy into common sense.
A Civic Assembly brings together a representative group of residents, selected by lottery, to work through a shared challenge on housing.
The recognized partner of the City of Naga under "The Empowerment Ordinance of Naga City"
