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Ready, Set, Show:

Assembly Showcase�

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23 ASSEMBLIES

3 MINUTES

1 RUTHLESS TIMEKEEPER

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JEMENA ELECTRICITY NETWORK �

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PRESENTER:

Polly Cameron, MosaicLab

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Energy distribution networks are facing many challenges when it comes to balancing revenue alongside a more complex infrastructure environment and rising costs of living.

Remit: How should Jemena prepare for a sustainable future while meeting customer and community needs today?

JEMENA ELECTRICITY NETWORK

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

OVERVIEW AND MANDATE

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Victoria, Australia
45 people
Jemena Electricity Network
August 2023 - December 2024
>$600k

APPR. TIME: 20-30 Seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

[Context]: Why the assembly occurred. eg., Whose idea was it? What was the political/social etc. circumstances that allowed it?
[Mandate or task statement]: What was the mandate/remit of your Assembly? ie, the problem that people were brought together to solve.
[Location]: As much detail as is relevant: Neighbourhood, City, Province/State, Country; or, if national or international, what regions participated.
# of members: How many total members participated in your Assembly?
Commissioner: Who requested/sponsored/funded your Assembly?
$Budget: If you’re comfortable sharing, it’s great information. Use your local currency.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Tell us the context of your Assembly: From what environment and circumstances did it develop? Broadly, who was involved? Why did your Assembly occur?
Tell us the mandate/remit of your Assembly: What problem were your members gathered to solve?
Summarize the other details

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JEMENA ELECTRICITY NETWORK

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PROCESS DESIGN

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APPR. TIME: <10 seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Process Diagram or Assembly Photo: If available, a visualization of the Assembly process. If not, a photo or graphic from your Assembly.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Timeframe of meetings: eg. If your first meeting was in June 2023 and your last meeting was in September 2024, put June 2023 - September 2024.
# Meetings: How many total meetings were convened?
Format of meetings: Were all the meetings online? In person? A split of both? Were all the meetings hybrid? Tell us more!
# hours of program: How many total hours did any one member spend actively attending Assembly meetings?

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

One- or two sentence overview of the meeting design of your Assembly (number of meetings, format, etc.), briefly including reasons for this design.

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[Rep model details]

JEMENA ELECTRICITY NETWORK

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

RECRUITMENT & REPRESENTATION

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APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Recruitment techniques: How did you register people to sign up for the Lottery process? eg, random mailers; online registration; door-to-door recruitment.
Lottery techniques: How did the random selection process happen? eg, Camelot or other digital tool, manual sortition, names from hats, etc.
# of invitations: For mailers etc. – how many invitations were sent? For other techniques, how many people registered?
Rate of response: For mailers etc. - how many people registered for your lottery compared to the number of people invited? Or comparable. Delete if not applicable to your project.
Novelty/innovation: Did you try something new? Tell us about it! Delete if not applicable to your project.
Representation model overview: Give a high-level overview of the demographic characteristics of your representation model (eg., Gender, Age, Income…) and why these characteristics were relevant to your Assembly.
Rep model details: If possible, show the breakdown of your representation model (eg., Gender: 18 Men, 17 Women, 1 Gender-expansive person, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Summarize the main characteristics of Assembly’s representation model and why they were chosen.
There is not time to read the details! But – we are curious about them. Remember, these slides will be shared with the group after the presentation.

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ASSEMBLY PHOTO

JEMENA ELECTRICITY NETWORK

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

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ASSEMBLY NAME

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PUBLIC AND POLICY IMPACT

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Climate

Assembly�Skopje

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PRESENTERS:

Hans-Liuger Dienel, Berlin University of Technology

Work, Technology and Participation

ASSEMBLY LOGO OR PHOTO

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APPR. TIME: 20-30 Seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

[Context]: Why the assembly occurred. eg., Whose idea was it? What was the political/social etc. circumstances that allowed it?
[Mandate or task statement]: What was the mandate/remit of your Assembly? ie, the problem that people were brought together to solve.
[Location]: As much detail as is relevant: Neighbourhood, City, Province/State, Country; or, if national or international, what regions participated.
# of members: How many total members participated in your Assembly?
Commissioner: Who requested/sponsored/funded your Assembly?
$Budget: If you’re comfortable sharing, it’s great information. Use your local currency.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Tell us the context of your Assembly: From what environment and circumstances did it develop? Broadly, who was involved? Why did your Assembly occur?
Tell us the mandate/remit of your Assembly: What problem were your members gathered to solve?
Summarize the other details

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[timeframe of meetings]
[# meeting] meetings
[format of meetings - ie, in-person, online, etc.]
[#hours of program] hours

ASSEMBLY NAME

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PROCESS DESIGN

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INSERT PROCESS DIAGRAM OR ASSEMBLY PHOTO

APPR. TIME: <10 seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Process Diagram or Assembly Photo: If available, a visualization of the Assembly process. If not, a photo or graphic from your Assembly.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Timeframe of meetings: eg. If your first meeting was in June 2023 and your last meeting was in September 2024, put June 2023 - September 2024.
# Meetings: How many total meetings were convened?
Format of meetings: Were all the meetings online? In person? A split of both? Were all the meetings hybrid? Tell us more!
# hours of program: How many total hours did any one member spend actively attending Assembly meetings?

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

One- or two sentence overview of the meeting design of your Assembly (number of meetings, format, etc.), briefly including reasons for this design.

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APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Recruitment techniques: How did you register people to sign up for the Lottery process? eg, random mailers; online registration; door-to-door recruitment.
Lottery techniques: How did the random selection process happen? eg, Camelot or other digital tool, manual sortition, names from hats, etc.
# of invitations: For mailers etc. – how many invitations were sent? For other techniques, how many people registered?
Rate of response: For mailers etc. - how many people registered for your lottery compared to the number of people invited? Or comparable. Delete if not applicable to your project.
Novelty/innovation: Did you try something new? Tell us about it! Delete if not applicable to your project.
Representation model overview: Give a high-level overview of the demographic characteristics of your representation model (eg., Gender, Age, Income…) and why these characteristics were relevant to your Assembly.
Rep model details: If possible, show the breakdown of your representation model (eg., Gender: 18 Men, 17 Women, 1 Gender-expansive person, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Summarize the main characteristics of Assembly’s representation model and why they were chosen.
There is not time to read the details! But – we are curious about them. Remember, these slides will be shared with the group after the presentation.

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Bujaru’s Climate Assembly was the �1st of 4 Climate Assemblies in Latin American Cities from Resurgentes program, also including a digital participation platform for the “Pacto Intercidades”, to face the climate crisis in and from Latin America to the world.

Financed by:

Brasil

Argentina

Colombia

Mexico

A Climate Assembly in Amazônia:� the case of Bujaru

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Open Call for Cities of Amazônia and CA of Bujaru Context

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Bujaru was chosen among 16 Amazonian Cities�

Proponent: Agriculture Secretary and City Hall

Issue: “Sustainable Agriculture, Bioeconomy, Income, and Quality of Life in the Amazon”

5 sessions between April-May of 2024

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A S A M B L E A S C L I M Á T I C A S : R< E S U R G E N T E S

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New Frontiers DR&D supported the Citizens' Assembly of Bujaru in developing and implementing non coercitive and effective integration of traditional communities (indigenous, riverside, quilombolas, “castanheiros”)

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Invitation (“Chamamento”) and Sortition:

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Sortition Public Event

A S A M B L E A S C L I M Á T I C A S : R E S U R G E N T E S

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CA of Bujaru: 9 months and main results so far...

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Integration of Traditional Communities

Graphic 3: Do you believe that the Citizens' Assembly will be able to help a lot, more or less, a little or nothing to develop the Bioeconomy and Sustainable Agriculture in Bujaru?

Special Edition (English)

A S A M B L E A S C L I M Á T I C A S : R< E S U R G E N T E S

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CA of Bujaru: 9 months and main results so far...

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CA Bujaru was selected by People Powered for the Climate Democratic Action Implementation Grant. Post Deliberation and Incidence Actions will be supported and facilitated in Bujaru from Sept24 until Sept25.

🡺 Legislative Theater

🡺 Plan of Agriculture and Bioeconomy

🡺 Plurianual Plan, basis for Annual Budgets

21st September: Public Event and Letter of Commitment with CA main recommendations to be signed by City Council and Mayor candidates Carta Compromisso Candidatos.

Articulation with State of Pará Government,

Successful Producers Cooperatives in the region and Private Investor in Sustainable Agriculture and Bioeconomy In the Amazon.

CA’s Instagram: Bujaru Verde

A S A M B L E A S C L I M Á T I C A S : R< E S U R G E N T E S

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W W W . R E S U R G E N T E S . O R G

@ R E S U R G E N T E S L A T

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Gibsons Residents’ Assembly�

Recommendations for the Town of Gibsons’ Official Community Plan

PRESENTERS:

Director, Amina Yasin, Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue

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To develop recommendations for the Town of Gibsons’ Official Community Plan and Zoning Bylaw update, with a focus on “How Gibsons can best plan for the future and meet the housing needs of their growing population.”

Gibsons Residents’ Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

OVERVIEW AND MANDATE

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Town of Gibsons, Canada
Commissioned by Town of Gibsons in partnership with the Renovate the Public Hearing Initiative
$84,000 CAD including staff over-time, participant honorariums, child-care a, transportation fund and meals throughout the sessions etc.

APPR. TIME: 20-30 Seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

[Context]: Why the assembly occurred. eg., Whose idea was it? What was the political/social etc. circumstances that allowed it?
[Mandate or task statement]: What was the mandate/remit of your Assembly? ie, the problem that people were brought together to solve.
[Location]: As much detail as is relevant: Neighbourhood, City, Province/State, Country; or, if national or international, what regions participated.
# of members: How many total members participated in your Assembly?
Commissioner: Who requested/sponsored/funded your Assembly?
$Budget: If you’re comfortable sharing, it’s great information. Use your local currency.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Tell us the context of your Assembly: From what environment and circumstances did it develop? Broadly, who was involved? Why did your Assembly occur?
Tell us the mandate/remit of your Assembly: What problem were your members gathered to solve?
Summarize the other details

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Mailers sent to all households
One-stage lottery to increase applicant pool in a small town (5000)
274 applicants, representing about 6% of the eligible population
25 participants
5 in-person sessions and 1 presentation to Council by Assembly participants
February-June 2024
30 hours

Gibsons Residents’ Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PROCESS DESIGN & RECRUITMENT

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APPR. TIME: <10 seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Process Diagram or Assembly Photo: If available, a visualization of the Assembly process. If not, a photo or graphic from your Assembly.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Timeframe of meetings: eg. If your first meeting was in June 2023 and your last meeting was in September 2024, put June 2023 - September 2024.
# Meetings: How many total meetings were convened?
Format of meetings: Were all the meetings online? In person? A split of both? Were all the meetings hybrid? Tell us more!
# hours of program: How many total hours did any one member spend actively attending Assembly meetings?

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

One- or two sentence overview of the meeting design of your Assembly (number of meetings, format, etc.), briefly including reasons for this design.

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Gibsons Residents’ Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

DEMOGRAPHIC & REPRESENTATION

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25 Assembly members closely reflecting the community along:

Age
Gender
Household type
Housing tenure
Education
Spatial attributes
Neighbourhoods

APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Recruitment techniques: How did you register people to sign up for the Lottery process? eg, random mailers; online registration; door-to-door recruitment.
Lottery techniques: How did the random selection process happen? eg, Camelot or other digital tool, manual sortition, names from hats, etc.
# of invitations: For mailers etc. – how many invitations were sent? For other techniques, how many people registered?
Rate of response: For mailers etc. - how many people registered for your lottery compared to the number of people invited? Or comparable. Delete if not applicable to your project.
Novelty/innovation: Did you try something new? Tell us about it! Delete if not applicable to your project.
Representation model overview: Give a high-level overview of the demographic characteristics of your representation model (eg., Gender, Age, Income…) and why these characteristics were relevant to your Assembly.
Rep model details: If possible, show the breakdown of your representation model (eg., Gender: 18 Men, 17 Women, 1 Gender-expansive person, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Summarize the main characteristics of Assembly’s representation model and why they were chosen.
There is not time to read the details! But – we are curious about them. Remember, these slides will be shared with the group after the presentation.

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The Assembly’s recommendations were received and unanimously approved as binding (defined in the report) by Council in June 2024

The Assembly was unique in that it took place at the very beginning of the planning process for the Official Community Plan and Zoning Bylaw update, allowing for a ground-up policy process where Assembly recommendations inform the public as they participate in the Town’s broader public engagement

The Assembly presents a promising model for more robust upfront public participation in local government land use planning at a time when the traditional channel of public engagement (public hearings) are now prohibited for housing developments that align with the Official Community Plan in British Columbia

Gibsons Residents’ Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PUBLIC AND POLICY IMPACT

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Strength: The Assembly was ground-up, up-front and took place at the very beginning of the OCP update, and not during the mid-point or end phase of the land use bylaw engagement process, meeting our principle for democratic legitimacy.

Strength: A well managed equitable budget that remunerated all Assembly participants, covered child-care costs and accounted for staff OT, permitting for the planning of an additional assembly session.

Lesson: An over-reliance on the selection algorithm of a civic lottery may not account for nuanced diversity considerations or manipulation errors. An additional (human) review process can help to mitigate against these gaps.

Lesson: Unexpected challenges can emerge in mail-based invitations, such as discrepancies between municipal boundaries and postal delivery boundaries, and although we had representation from precariously housed participants there were still difficulties reaching more unhoused or precariously housed individuals.

Gibsons Residents’ Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

LESSONS FOR NEXT TIME

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Gibsons Residents’ Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

#drdvancouver

DOWNLOAD THE REPORT

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Burnaby Community Assembly

On Burnaby’s Official Community Plan

PRESENTER:

Robin Prest, Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue

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To create recommendations for the City of Burnaby’s Official Community Plan under the guiding question:

How should Burnaby grow and change by 2050 to create a city where everyone can thrive?

Burnaby Community Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

OVERVIEW AND MANDATE

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Burnaby, Canada
40 members
Co-funded with grants
$CAN ~550,000 budget

APPR. TIME: 20-30 Seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

[Context]: Why the assembly occurred. eg., Whose idea was it? What was the political/social etc. circumstances that allowed it?
[Mandate or task statement]: What was the mandate/remit of your Assembly? ie, the problem that people were brought together to solve.
[Location]: As much detail as is relevant: Neighbourhood, City, Province/State, Country; or, if national or international, what regions participated.
# of members: How many total members participated in your Assembly?
Commissioner: Who requested/sponsored/funded your Assembly?
$Budget: If you’re comfortable sharing, it’s great information. Use your local currency.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Tell us the context of your Assembly: From what environment and circumstances did it develop? Broadly, who was involved? Why did your Assembly occur?
Tell us the mandate/remit of your Assembly: What problem were your members gathered to solve?
Summarize the other details

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Burnaby Community Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PROCESS DESIGN (7 days / 52 hours in person)

#drdvancouver

January 2024

June 2024 on…

APPR. TIME: <10 seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Process Diagram or Assembly Photo: If available, a visualization of the Assembly process. If not, a photo or graphic from your Assembly.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Timeframe of meetings: eg. If your first meeting was in June 2023 and your last meeting was in September 2024, put June 2023 - September 2024.
# Meetings: How many total meetings were convened?
Format of meetings: Were all the meetings online? In person? A split of both? Were all the meetings hybrid? Tell us more!
# hours of program: How many total hours did any one member spend actively attending Assembly meetings?

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

One- or two sentence overview of the meeting design of your Assembly (number of meetings, format, etc.), briefly including reasons for this design.

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Stratification based on:

Age
Gender identity
Language spoken at home
Education
Owner / renter
Location of residence
Immigration / time in Canada
Indigenous identity

Two thirds of Burnaby residents speak a language other than English at home; More than half were born outside of Canada.

Burnaby Community Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

RECRUITMENT & REPRESENTATION

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26,000 randomized mail-outs
StratifySelect (via Sortition Foundation)
579 responses (2% response rate)
Oversampled vulnerable areas

Used mail-out to sign up hundreds of residents to mailing list

Community ambassadors hosted parallel dialogues in languages reflecting city’s linguistic diversity

APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Recruitment techniques: How did you register people to sign up for the Lottery process? eg, random mailers; online registration; door-to-door recruitment.
Lottery techniques: How did the random selection process happen? eg, Camelot or other digital tool, manual sortition, names from hats, etc.
# of invitations: For mailers etc. – how many invitations were sent? For other techniques, how many people registered?
Rate of response: For mailers etc. - how many people registered for your lottery compared to the number of people invited? Or comparable. Delete if not applicable to your project.
Novelty/innovation: Did you try something new? Tell us about it! Delete if not applicable to your project.
Representation model overview: Give a high-level overview of the demographic characteristics of your representation model (eg., Gender, Age, Income…) and why these characteristics were relevant to your Assembly.
Rep model details: If possible, show the breakdown of your representation model (eg., Gender: 18 Men, 17 Women, 1 Gender-expansive person, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Summarize the main characteristics of Assembly’s representation model and why they were chosen.
There is not time to read the details! But – we are curious about them. Remember, these slides will be shared with the group after the presentation.

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Burnaby Community Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

#drdvancouver

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24 recommendations presented to City Council in July 2024
Informal knowledge transmission key (staff as table facilitators; councillors in small group discussions; etc.)
City exploring new multilingual engagement approaches based on Assembly
City will report back when it releases draft plan how it used recommendations
Assembly reps will respond to draft plan in early 2025 to create extra feedback loop / chance for course correction

Burnaby Community Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PUBLIC AND POLICY IMPACT

#drdvancouver

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Strength: holistic focus allowed residents to make connections between issues (e.g. climate, transport, housing, density, livability, etc.)
Weakness: holistic focus placed pressure on all parties, emphasized breadth over depth.
Scale back production value to allow for easier pivots if using emergent design
Trust building and cultural change with gov’t partners is a long-term journey beyond any single process

Burnaby Community Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

LESSONS FOR NEXT TIME

#drdvancouver

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#drdvancouver

APPENDIX

For more on the Burnaby Community Assembly, visit www.burnabyassembly.ca
Robin Prest, Program Director, Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue
Contact: rjprest@sfu.ca, +1 604.369.3947
General website: www.sfu.ca/dialogue

Burnaby Community Assembly

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COPENHAGEN

CLIMATE ASSEMBLY �Longform Citizen assembly (3 Years)

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PRESENTERS:

Johan Galster, We Do Democracy

TBD: Borgersamling Middelalderbyen, Borgersamling om Lynetteholm, Københavns Klimaborgertin, Bærekraft Folkepanel, Bærekraft Folkepanel, Nordic Deliberation

OVERVIEW: You have 3 minutes – 180 seconds – for this presentation. That’s an average of 20 seconds per slide. You will have to skim over some details, but the slides will be shared with all participants afterwards. Have fun!�

The speaker's’ notes (this section) on each slide includes further details and instructions.

APPR. TIME: <10 Seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Introduce yourselves and your organizations
Tell us your full official Assembly name and, if that doesn’t give the information, its primary topic

https://www.wedodemocracy.com/case/copenhagen-citizens-assembly-on-the-climate-area/

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Copenhagen has completed 7 citizens’ assemblies / mini public in the last 5 years, which gave the Lord Mayor and the Municipality the courage to initiate the first long-form citizens' assembly

The Copenhagen Climate Citizens' Assembly is a three-year project where the members' recommendations will have impact on the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Plan 2035.

The remit:

How does the good Copenhagen life look like with far less greenhouse gas emissions from the consumption of food, housing and transportation, and how can we get there together?

COPENHAGEN CLIMATE ASSEMBLY

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

OVERVIEW AND MANDATE

#drdvancouver

City of Copenhagen
36 x 3 members
Commissioned by Municipality of Copenhagen
66.600 $ x 3

APPR. TIME: 20-30 Seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

[Context]: Why the assembly occurred. eg., Whose idea was it? What was the political/social etc. circumstances that allowed it?
[Mandate or task statement]: What was the mandate/remit of your Assembly? ie, the problem that people were brought together to solve.
[Location]: As much detail as is relevant: Neighbourhood, City, Province/State, Country; or, if national or international, what regions participated.
# of members: How many total members participated in your Assembly?
Commissioner: Who requested/sponsored/funded your Assembly?
$Budget: If you’re comfortable sharing, it’s great information. Use your local currency.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Tell us the context of your Assembly: From what environment and circumstances did it develop? Broadly, who was involved? Why did your Assembly occur?
Tell us the mandate/remit of your Assembly: What problem were your members gathered to solve?
Summarize the other details

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Copenhagen Climate Citizens' Assembly is designed over three phases, each year having the following process design

3-4 months
6 meetings (1 open meeting)
Format: in-person
4-7 hours of program

COPENHAGEN CLIMATE ASSEMBLY

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PROCESS DESIGN

#drdvancouver

APPR. TIME: <10 seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Process Diagram or Assembly Photo: If available, a visualization of the Assembly process. If not, a photo or graphic from your Assembly.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Timeframe of meetings: eg. If your first meeting was in June 2023 and your last meeting was in September 2024, put June 2023 - September 2024.
# Meetings: How many total meetings were convened?
Format of meetings: Were all the meetings online? In person? A split of both? Were all the meetings hybrid? Tell us more!
# hours of program: How many total hours did any one member spend actively attending Assembly meetings?

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

One- or two sentence overview of the meeting design of your Assembly (number of meetings, format, etc.), briefly including reasons for this design.

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COPENHAGEN CLIMATE ASSEMBLY

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

RECRUITMENT & REPRESENTATION

#drdvancouver

2 staged stratified sortion:

- 50,000 invitations via e-Boks - digital post from the municipality (Stage 1)

- 1,591 Copenhageners signed up for the lottery, and of these (Stages 2) - - 36 Copenhageners were selected.

Sortition characteristics

Gender, age, education, income, attitudes to climate and geography and geographical distribution in Copenhagen

Rate of response 50.000/1591 = 3.2%�

APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Recruitment techniques: How did you register people to sign up for the Lottery process? eg, random mailers; online registration; door-to-door recruitment.
Lottery techniques: How did the random selection process happen? eg, Camelot or other digital tool, manual sortition, names from hats, etc.
# of invitations: For mailers etc. – how many invitations were sent? For other techniques, how many people registered?
Rate of response: For mailers etc. - how many people registered for your lottery compared to the number of people invited? Or comparable. Delete if not applicable to your project.
Novelty/innovation: Did you try something new? Tell us about it! Delete if not applicable to your project.
Representation model overview: Give a high-level overview of the demographic characteristics of your representation model (eg., Gender, Age, Income…) and why these characteristics were relevant to your Assembly.
Rep model details: If possible, show the breakdown of your representation model (eg., Gender: 18 Men, 17 Women, 1 Gender-expansive person, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Summarize the main characteristics of Assembly’s representation model and why they were chosen.
There is not time to read the details! But – we are curious about them. Remember, these slides will be shared with the group after the presentation.

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COPENHAGEN CLIMATE ASSEMBLY

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

#drdvancouver

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This is Denmark's first long-term citizens' assembly, serving as a pilot project to set a standard for similar processes, with the potential to evolve into a permanent climate citizens' assembly in Copenhagen.
It has a direct impact due to its alignment with the municipal climate plan. Simultaneously, other local participatory processes, such as neighborhood climate summits, are taking place.
The impact unfolds across three years: 1. Climate Action Plan – defining what to do. 2. Specific actions – developing pilot projects for more concrete implementation, focusing on how. 3. Mobilization and implementation – ensuring anchoring.
A stakeholder team, consisting of relevant urban actors in Copenhagen, is attached to the project.
The City of Copenhagen generally supports citizens' assemblies. In 2019, they held the first Citizens' Assembly on parking and traffic regulations in the inner city, where 92% of the recommendations have now been adopted.

COPENHAGEN CLIMATE ASSEMBLY

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PUBLIC AND POLICY IMPACT

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The flexible design has enabled iterative development of the process over three years, driven by insights and needs.
Collaboration with the municipal civil service has been strong, featuring training in deliberative methods to prepare officials to effectively implement recommendations.
This three-year period has allowed for a deeper examination of relevant issues and continuous integration of municipal and political perspectives, improving real-time process design and implementation.
Additionally, it has provided a nuanced understanding of dilemmas within key themes, especially concerning consumption.
The random selection criterion reflecting Copenhageners' attitudes toward climate issues has enhanced legitimacy for both citizens' assembly members and local politicians.

COPENHAGEN CLIMATE ASSEMBLY

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

LESSONS FOR NEXT TIME

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APPR. TIME: 20-30 seconds.

Designet er fleksibelt, det vil sige, at procesdesignet bliver udarbejdet undervejs i løbet af de tre år ud fra erfaringer, behov og læringer.

Forankringen i embedsværket i kommunen har været god, hvor vi har haft et tæt samarbejde og undervist i deliberative metoder og klædt dem på til at modtage anbefalingerne.

Tidsperspektivet med de 3 år har vist sig at have givet mere tid til fordybelse i forhold til problematikken vedrørende remit.

Det har også betydet, at kommunen og politikernes betragtninger løbende bliver inddraget og kvalificerer procesdesignet undervejs for at sikre bedre implementering.
Mere specifikt på hvor dilemmaerne er i temaerne, eksempelvis under forbrug.

Lodtrækningkriteriet om Københavnernes holdning til klima har skabt legitimitet for både medlemmer af borgersamlingen og politikerne i kommunen.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Share a few lessons you learned while designing and executing this Assembly, for example:

What would you do differently next time? What advice would you give yourself if you got to start this project again at the beginning?
What did you try for the first time that worked well? – or, didn’t?
What should somebody hosting a similar Assembly definitely do – or not do?

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Give a one-sentence summary of your preferred learning bullet. These slides will be shared with the group after the presentations.

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APPENDIX

First year of recommendations https://www.wedodemocracy.com/case/copenhagen-citizens-assembly-on-the-climate-area/
1.Borgersamling om Middelalderbyen (2019) Citizens Assembly on parking and traffic regulations in CPH inner city (WDD)
2.Borgersamling om Fremtidens Albertslund (2020) itizens Assembly on the future with 10.000 extra citizens (WDD)
3.Borgersamling om FN’s Verdensmål i Rudersdal (2020) Citizens Assembly on how to implement the SDGs (WDD)
4.Københavns Ungeborgersamling (2020) Mini-public on the well-being of youth in the future of Copenhagen (WDD)
5.Klimaborgertinget (2020-22) Citizens Assembly on national level on climate (DBT)
6.Grønt Generationsråd (2021) Citizens Panel on how to design a co2 tax that helps us reach the Paris agreement (WDD)
7.Europasamling (2021) Citizens Panel on the future of Denmark in Europe (WDD)
8.Hørsholm Klimaborgerpanel (2022) Citizen panel - consultation on climate adjustments in urban plans (WDD)
9.Greve Klimaborgersamling (2022) Climate Citizens Assembly on how to reduce carbon footprint on municipal level (WDD)
10.Næstved Borgersamling (2023) Citizens assembly on the future of Næstved municipality- infrastructure plan (WDD)
11.Borgersamling Bæredygtigt Forbrug (2022/23) : Assembly on the future of sustainable consumption (WDD)
12.Borgersamling om Lynetteholm (2022/23) Longform assembly (2 years) on the pros and cons + future design (WDD)
13.Klimaborgersamling Aarhus (2023) Citizens Assembly on Climate plan on municipal level (DBT)
14.Borgersamling om Østerbro (2023) Citizens Assembly on green mobility, urban life and urban space (WDD)
15.Københavnertinget (2023/24) Permanent assembly and pilot project (WDD)
16.Københavnersamlinger (2023/24) Citizen panels and mini-publics in 2 different CPH neighbourhoods (WDD)
17.Københavns Klimaborgerting (2023/25) Permanent Climate Citizens Assembly on consumption (WDD/KOMPONENT)
18.Klimasamling Københavns Universitet (2023) Mini-public on Cph University facultys emmision reduction (WDD)
19.Gentofte Klimaborgersamling (2023) Citizens Assembly on sustainable transition, behavior and climate plan(WDD)
20.Greve Velfærdsborgersamling (2024) Citizens Assembly on how to prioritizing future welfare and budget (WDD/KOMPONENT

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FRAMTIDSPANELET �How should we use our

National wealth?

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PRESENTERS:

Cathrine Skar, SoCentral

ASSEMBLY LOGO OR PHOTO

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Since Norway discovered oil in the North Sea in the 1960s, the Norwegian Pension Fund Global - commonly only referred to as the Oil fund - has grown to become the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world, with more than 1.6 trillion USD under management.

MANDATE

How should we use our national wealth to solve global challenges for the benefit of current and future generations?

What ethical values should underpin this effort?
Which global challenges do we have particularly strong reasons to help solve?
How does this affect the use of current and future values in the Oil Fund?

The assembly will answer what Norway can do today, with our growing financial wealth, to create the best possible society for our future generations, in times of climate and ecological crisis.

FRAMTIDSPANELET

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

OVERVIEW AND MANDATE

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Oslo
66 members
Commissioned by 7 civil society organizations
$365 000

APPR. TIME: 20-30 Seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

[Context]: Why the assembly occurred. eg., Whose idea was it? What was the political/social etc. circumstances that allowed it?
[Mandate or task statement]: What was the mandate/remit of your Assembly? ie, the problem that people were brought together to solve.
[Location]: As much detail as is relevant: Neighbourhood, City, Province/State, Country; or, if national or international, what regions participated.
# of members: How many total members participated in your Assembly?
Commissioner: Who requested/sponsored/funded your Assembly?
$Budget: If you’re comfortable sharing, it’s great information. Use your local currency.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Tell us the context of your Assembly: From what environment and circumstances did it develop? Broadly, who was involved? Why did your Assembly occur?
Tell us the mandate/remit of your Assembly: What problem were your members gathered to solve?
Summarize the other details

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4 months
6 meetings
3 digital meetings 3 in-person weekends
55 hours

FRAMTIDSPANELET

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PROCESS DESIGN

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APPR. TIME: <10 seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Process Diagram or Assembly Photo: If available, a visualization of the Assembly process. If not, a photo or graphic from your Assembly.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Timeframe of meetings: eg. If your first meeting was in June 2023 and your last meeting was in September 2024, put June 2023 - September 2024.
# Meetings: How many total meetings were convened?
Format of meetings: Were all the meetings online? In person? A split of both? Were all the meetings hybrid? Tell us more!
# hours of program: How many total hours did any one member spend actively attending Assembly meetings?

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

One- or two sentence overview of the meeting design of your Assembly (number of meetings, format, etc.), briefly including reasons for this design.

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Gender, age, education, attitudes to climate and geographical distribution in Norway

FRAMTIDSPANELET

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

RECRUITMENT & REPRESENTATION

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Recruitment by SMS/letters
2 staged stratified sortion
40 000 SMS /Letters

Mixed recruitment

APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Recruitment techniques: How did you register people to sign up for the Lottery process? eg, random mailers; online registration; door-to-door recruitment.
Lottery techniques: How did the random selection process happen? eg, Camelot or other digital tool, manual sortition, names from hats, etc.
# of invitations: For mailers etc. – how many invitations were sent? For other techniques, how many people registered?
Rate of response: For mailers etc. - how many people registered for your lottery compared to the number of people invited? Or comparable. Delete if not applicable to your project.
Novelty/innovation: Did you try something new? Tell us about it! Delete if not applicable to your project.
Representation model overview: Give a high-level overview of the demographic characteristics of your representation model (eg., Gender, Age, Income…) and why these characteristics were relevant to your Assembly.
Rep model details: If possible, show the breakdown of your representation model (eg., Gender: 18 Men, 17 Women, 1 Gender-expansive person, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Summarize the main characteristics of Assembly’s representation model and why they were chosen.
There is not time to read the details! But – we are curious about them. Remember, these slides will be shared with the group after the presentation.

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Main goal: To create a national conversation about our common wealth and our nations role in solving present global challenges
The commissioning bodies will use recommendations for lobby purposes
Engage communities in taking part in the conversation

FRAMTIDSPANELET

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PUBLIC AND POLICY IMPACT

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Outreach when implementing a new method (CA’s)

Feedback

Tips on experts for the CA
Tips on international media outreach

FRAMTIDSPANELET

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

LESSONS FOR NEXT TIME

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Forum against Fakes

Together for a Strong Democracy

PRESENTERS:

Angela Jain, Bertelsmann Stiftung

ASSEMBLY LOGO OR PHOTO

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Aim: To initiate a debate across Germany on how to deal with disinformation, using a unique participatory format.

Method: Combining a citizens’ assembly with three stages of Online-participation

Forum against Fakes

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

OVERVIEW AND MANDATE

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Germany �(on- and offline)
120 citizens’ assembly members, 423.002 participants online
by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, in cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior and others

APPR. TIME: 20-30 Seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

[Context]: Why the assembly occurred. eg., Whose idea was it? What was the political/social etc. circumstances that allowed it?
[Mandate or task statement]: What was the mandate/remit of your Assembly? ie, the problem that people were brought together to solve.
[Location]: As much detail as is relevant: Neighbourhood, City, Province/State, Country; or, if national or international, what regions participated.
# of members: How many total members participated in your Assembly?
Commissioner: Who requested/sponsored/funded your Assembly?
$Budget: If you’re comfortable sharing, it’s great information. Use your local currency.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Tell us the context of your Assembly: From what environment and circumstances did it develop? Broadly, who was involved? Why did your Assembly occur?
Tell us the mandate/remit of your Assembly: What problem were your members gathered to solve?
Summarize the other details

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Forum against Fakes

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PROCESS DESIGN

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APPR. TIME: <10 seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Process Diagram or Assembly Photo: If available, a visualization of the Assembly process. If not, a photo or graphic from your Assembly.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Timeframe of meetings: eg. If your first meeting was in June 2023 and your last meeting was in September 2024, put June 2023 - September 2024.
# Meetings: How many total meetings were convened?
Format of meetings: Were all the meetings online? In person? A split of both? Were all the meetings hybrid? Tell us more!
# hours of program: How many total hours did any one member spend actively attending Assembly meetings?

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

One- or two sentence overview of the meeting design of your Assembly (number of meetings, format, etc.), briefly including reasons for this design.

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Online method:

3 open consultations. Extensive communication via social media ads, public advertising and widgets in online news media.

Forum against Fakes

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

RECRUITMENT & REPRESENTATION

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Method citizens’ assembly:

Random selection (via telephone) with post stratification (age, gender, region, community size, education, migration background), across Germany

APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Recruitment techniques: How did you register people to sign up for the Lottery process? eg, random mailers; online registration; door-to-door recruitment.
Lottery techniques: How did the random selection process happen? eg, Camelot or other digital tool, manual sortition, names from hats, etc.
# of invitations: For mailers etc. – how many invitations were sent? For other techniques, how many people registered?
Rate of response: For mailers etc. - how many people registered for your lottery compared to the number of people invited? Or comparable. Delete if not applicable to your project.
Novelty/innovation: Did you try something new? Tell us about it! Delete if not applicable to your project.
Representation model overview: Give a high-level overview of the demographic characteristics of your representation model (eg., Gender, Age, Income…) and why these characteristics were relevant to your Assembly.
Rep model details: If possible, show the breakdown of your representation model (eg., Gender: 18 Men, 17 Women, 1 Gender-expansive person, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Summarize the main characteristics of Assembly’s representation model and why they were chosen.
There is not time to read the details! But – we are curious about them. Remember, these slides will be shared with the group after the presentation.

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Forum against Fakes

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

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Handing-over the citizens’ recommen-�dations

12th of September

In the ministry of the interior with minister

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15 recommendations and 28 concrete measures.

Examples of recommendations:

Ensuring media literacy becomes embedded in educational law
Content generated by an AI should always be marked with a labeling
Requiring social media platforms to effectively combat disinformation

Minister Faeser will reconvene with the citizens‘ assembly in 1 year.

Forum against Fakes

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PUBLIC AND POLICY IMPACT

#drdvancouver

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Online participation can help in opening up the “black box” of a citizens’ assembly to the public

Especially when the subject is highly politically contested as “Disinformation”

Marketing and campaigning is crucial for online participation

In order to get a high level of participation, you need a high level of visibility

Online participants feel ‘heard’ as well - it’s a chance for scaling-up, if taken seriously and combined well!

Forum against Fakes

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

LESSONS FOR NEXT TIME

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Unify Montrose�Addressing a Childcare Desert

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PRESENTER:

Morgan Lasher, Unify America

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Shared Goal: �“Every parent and guardian in Montrose shall have access to dependable, safe, affordable, and enriching childcare options so they can work, attend school, or otherwise contribute to our community.”

UNIFY MONTROSE

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

OVERVIEW AND MANDATE

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Montrose, CO
46 Delegates
Convened by local residents and community leaders

APPR. TIME: 20-30 Seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

[Context]: Why the assembly occurred. eg., Whose idea was it? What was the political/social etc. circumstances that allowed it?
[Mandate or task statement]: What was the mandate/remit of your Assembly? ie, the problem that people were brought together to solve.
[Location]: As much detail as is relevant: Neighbourhood, City, Province/State, Country; or, if national or international, what regions participated.
# of members: How many total members participated in your Assembly?
Commissioner: Who requested/sponsored/funded your Assembly?
$Budget: If you’re comfortable sharing, it’s great information. Use your local currency.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Tell us the context of your Assembly: From what environment and circumstances did it develop? Broadly, who was involved? Why did your Assembly occur?
Tell us the mandate/remit of your Assembly: What problem were your members gathered to solve?
Summarize the other details

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Timeline: 12 months

Feb - May 2023: Explore & Research
May - July 2023: Recruit & Convene
Aug - Nov 2023: Deliberate & Engage
Dec 2023 - Feb 2024: Report & Pursue�

12 deliberative sessions over 12 weeks

11 online and one (1) in-person meetings
Two (2) hours per meeting + time for surveys and information sharing

UNIFY MONTROSE

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PROCESS DESIGN

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APPR. TIME: <10 seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Process Diagram or Assembly Photo: If available, a visualization of the Assembly process. If not, a photo or graphic from your Assembly.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Timeframe of meetings: eg. If your first meeting was in June 2023 and your last meeting was in September 2024, put June 2023 - September 2024.
# Meetings: How many total meetings were convened?
Format of meetings: Were all the meetings online? In person? A split of both? Were all the meetings hybrid? Tell us more!
# hours of program: How many total hours did any one member spend actively attending Assembly meetings?

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

One- or two sentence overview of the meeting design of your Assembly (number of meetings, format, etc.), briefly including reasons for this design.

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UNIFY MONTROSE

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

RECRUITMENT & REPRESENTATION

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Wide awareness and recruitment campaign (35 events, invitation letter to all homes, canvassing, media advertising, presented at local meetings, email and social)

222 sign-ups

64 initially chosen in lottery�

Live lottery (using Panelot)

APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Recruitment techniques: How did you register people to sign up for the Lottery process? eg, random mailers; online registration; door-to-door recruitment.
Lottery techniques: How did the random selection process happen? eg, Camelot or other digital tool, manual sortition, names from hats, etc.
# of invitations: For mailers etc. – how many invitations were sent? For other techniques, how many people registered?
Rate of response: For mailers etc. - how many people registered for your lottery compared to the number of people invited? Or comparable. Delete if not applicable to your project.
Novelty/innovation: Did you try something new? Tell us about it! Delete if not applicable to your project.
Representation model overview: Give a high-level overview of the demographic characteristics of your representation model (eg., Gender, Age, Income…) and why these characteristics were relevant to your Assembly.
Rep model details: If possible, show the breakdown of your representation model (eg., Gender: 18 Men, 17 Women, 1 Gender-expansive person, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Summarize the main characteristics of Assembly’s representation model and why they were chosen.
There is not time to read the details! But – we are curious about them. Remember, these slides will be shared with the group after the presentation.

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Seven categories of demographic representation, including political party

UNIFY MONTROSE

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

RECRUITMENT & REPRESENTATION

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APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Recruitment techniques: How did you register people to sign up for the Lottery process? eg, random mailers; online registration; door-to-door recruitment.
Lottery techniques: How did the random selection process happen? eg, Camelot or other digital tool, manual sortition, names from hats, etc.
# of invitations: For mailers etc. – how many invitations were sent? For other techniques, how many people registered?
Rate of response: For mailers etc. - how many people registered for your lottery compared to the number of people invited? Or comparable. Delete if not applicable to your project.
Novelty/innovation: Did you try something new? Tell us about it! Delete if not applicable to your project.
Representation model overview: Give a high-level overview of the demographic characteristics of your representation model (eg., Gender, Age, Income…) and why these characteristics were relevant to your Assembly.
Rep model details: If possible, show the breakdown of your representation model (eg., Gender: 18 Men, 17 Women, 1 Gender-expansive person, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Summarize the main characteristics of Assembly’s representation model and why they were chosen.
There is not time to read the details! But – we are curious about them. Remember, these slides will be shared with the group after the presentation.

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ASSEMBLY PHOTO

UNIFY MONTROSE

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

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Five ideas (our of 24 total) received more than two-thirds support. Local leaders publicly committed to implement, explore, or support all five.
More than 90% of Delegates:

Felt the deliberation helped them consider new perspectives that they had not considered before
Supported the overall recommendations of the Assembly, even if they don’t agree with every part
Felt the community should use a deliberative process to solve problems in the future

Community members formed a new local nonprofit to support the implementation and develop opportunities for problem-solving.

UNIFY MONTROSE

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PUBLIC AND POLICY IMPACT

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Digital learning environment

Asynchronous website for responding to Delegate questions
Using videos as policy briefing materials

Community building

Using consistent Trusts (small groups) to foster relationship-building as an important part of trust-building and depolarization
Catalyst Club

UNIFY MONTROSE

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

LESSONS FOR NEXT TIME

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We Need To Talk�CA on political parties financing

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PRESENTERS:

Isabelle Dresse, G1000

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Context:

Political parties are mainly publicly funded.

High fundings and lack of indication on how the money might be spent, raise questions.

All parties say they want a reform.

the reform is written in the government agreement

yet discussion is deadlocked

Question for the CA:

“ Political parties need money to fulfill their role in society. How should they be financed in the future? What should they be able to do with their money? And how accountable should they be?”

We Need To Talk

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

OVERVIEW AND MANDATE

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Belgium
60 members
Bottom-up initiative by a consortium of NGO’s and think tanks
Budget: € 250K + communication budget

APPR. TIME: 20-30 Seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

[Context]: Why the assembly occurred. eg., Whose idea was it? What was the political/social etc. circumstances that allowed it?
[Mandate or task statement]: What was the mandate/remit of your Assembly? ie, the problem that people were brought together to solve.
[Location]: As much detail as is relevant: Neighbourhood, City, Province/State, Country; or, if national or international, what regions participated.
# of members: How many total members participated in your Assembly?
Commissioner: Who requested/sponsored/funded your Assembly?
$Budget: If you’re comfortable sharing, it’s great information. Use your local currency.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Tell us the context of your Assembly: From what environment and circumstances did it develop? Broadly, who was involved? Why did your Assembly occur?
Tell us the mandate/remit of your Assembly: What problem were your members gathered to solve?
Summarize the other details

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We Need To Talk

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PROCESS DESIGN

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25-26 March 2023�22-23 April

13-14 May

Nov 22 -March 2023

May 2023 -

May 2024

Stakeholders involvement

Broad Public Debate

Political backing

Media interest

Maxi public involvement

Citizen assembly

Transmission to politics

Report presentation

Explanation

Follow-up of the political discussion

APPR. TIME: <10 seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Process Diagram or Assembly Photo: If available, a visualization of the Assembly process. If not, a photo or graphic from your Assembly.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Timeframe of meetings: eg. If your first meeting was in June 2023 and your last meeting was in September 2024, put June 2023 - September 2024.
# Meetings: How many total meetings were convened?
Format of meetings: Were all the meetings online? In person? A split of both? Were all the meetings hybrid? Tell us more!
# hours of program: How many total hours did any one member spend actively attending Assembly meetings?

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

One- or two sentence overview of the meeting design of your Assembly (number of meetings, format, etc.), briefly including reasons for this design.

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Gender, age, education, geographical distribution in Belgium

>> match with national stats.

Also

place of birth of the mother: (Bel / Eur / Outside Europe), pers with special needs,

gender diversity

>> make sure to have them in the room

We Need To Talk

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

RECRUITMENT & REPRESENTATION

#drdvancouver

16 200 letters
2 rounds lottery > large / stratified
16 200 letters > 374 positive answers
2,3%

APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Recruitment techniques: How did you register people to sign up for the Lottery process? eg, random mailers; online registration; door-to-door recruitment.
Lottery techniques: How did the random selection process happen? eg, Camelot or other digital tool, manual sortition, names from hats, etc.
# of invitations: For mailers etc. – how many invitations were sent? For other techniques, how many people registered?
Rate of response: For mailers etc. - how many people registered for your lottery compared to the number of people invited? Or comparable. Delete if not applicable to your project.
Novelty/innovation: Did you try something new? Tell us about it! Delete if not applicable to your project.
Representation model overview: Give a high-level overview of the demographic characteristics of your representation model (eg., Gender, Age, Income…) and why these characteristics were relevant to your Assembly.
Rep model details: If possible, show the breakdown of your representation model (eg., Gender: 18 Men, 17 Women, 1 Gender-expansive person, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Summarize the main characteristics of Assembly’s representation model and why they were chosen.
There is not time to read the details! But – we are curious about them. Remember, these slides will be shared with the group after the presentation.

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We Need To Talk

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

#drdvancouver

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Increased awareness of the public : on the topic & process.

Thanks to important press coverage

Politic buy-in: negotiations between the parties on the basis of the recommendations

But interrupted by national elections (June 9, 2024)
Some parties have taken up the issue of party financing and mentioned WNTT in their campaign programme.

Shift in attitude toward deliberative democracy: some political parties are more supportive and confident

We Need To Talk

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PUBLIC AND POLICY IMPACT

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Build a relationship with decision makers, before, during and after
Invest a lot in media relation
Be ready for a very long ‘transmission phase’ after the panel

Organize and support a follow-up committee of members who wish to continue the work
Allocate financial and human resources for this purpose

Take election time into account

We Need To Talk

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

LESSONS FOR NEXT TIME

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APPENDIX

Watch aftermovie

Visit the website (French and Dutch)

Download the report

Check out the press review

ASSEMBLY NAME

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NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

ON WORKPLACE �DEMOCRACY�

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PRESENTERS:

Simon Pek, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria

ASSEMBLY LOGO OR PHOTO

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Despite the importance of worker voice in contemporary society, there is a chronic ‘voice gap’ in many jurisdictions, including Canada.

Assembly focus: What are the most promising policy interventions to address the voice gap in Canada?

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

OVERVIEW AND MANDATE

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October 2024
Toronto, Canada
36 members
Commissioned by Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, University of Toronto
Supported by Employment & Social Development Canada

APPR. TIME: 20-30 Seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

[Context]: Why the assembly occurred. eg., Whose idea was it? What was the political/social etc. circumstances that allowed it?
[Mandate or task statement]: What was the mandate/remit of your Assembly? ie, the problem that people were brought together to solve.
[Location]: As much detail as is relevant: Neighbourhood, City, Province/State, Country; or, if national or international, what regions participated.
# of members: How many total members participated in your Assembly?
Commissioner: Who requested/sponsored/funded your Assembly?
$Budget: If you’re comfortable sharing, it’s great information. Use your local currency.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Tell us the context of your Assembly: From what environment and circumstances did it develop? Broadly, who was involved? Why did your Assembly occur?
Tell us the mandate/remit of your Assembly: What problem were your members gathered to solve?
Summarize the other details

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October 2024
5 meeting days
Online orientation + 4 consecutive days in-person meetings
24 program hours
Bilingual assembly w/ simultaneous interpretation

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PROCESS DESIGN

#drdvancouver

APPR. TIME: <10 seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Process Diagram or Assembly Photo: If available, a visualization of the Assembly process. If not, a photo or graphic from your Assembly.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Timeframe of meetings: eg. If your first meeting was in June 2023 and your last meeting was in September 2024, put June 2023 - September 2024.
# Meetings: How many total meetings were convened?
Format of meetings: Were all the meetings online? In person? A split of both? Were all the meetings hybrid? Tell us more!
# hours of program: How many total hours did any one member spend actively attending Assembly meetings?

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

One- or two sentence overview of the meeting design of your Assembly (number of meetings, format, etc.), briefly including reasons for this design.

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Members were selected based on nationally representative demographic data by age, gender, income, race, language and geography.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

RECRUITMENT & REPRESENTATION

#drdvancouver

15,000 random mailers to major population centres across Canada
Civic lottery
2 % response rate

Challenges: A lottery deadline in August and an Assembly during weekdays

Solutions: Increase mailers; provide letters to employers; cover reasonable expenses to account for lost wages

30 Anglophone

6 Francophone

5 AB

5 BC

3 MB

1 NB

1 NL

2 NS

9 ON

1 PE

6 QC

2 SK

1 YK

18 Women

17 Men

1 Non-binary

16 Private Sector

12 Public Sector

8 Ret./Unemp.

13 Racialized

1 FNIM

22 White

5 age 18-29

11 age 30-44

13 age 45-64

7 age 65+

5 <$20K

10 $20-65K

8 $65-100K

12 $100K+

1 n/a

APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Recruitment techniques: How did you register people to sign up for the Lottery process? eg, random mailers; online registration; door-to-door recruitment.
Lottery techniques: How did the random selection process happen? eg, Camelot or other digital tool, manual sortition, names from hats, etc.
# of invitations: For mailers etc. – how many invitations were sent? For other techniques, how many people registered?
Rate of response: For mailers etc. - how many people registered for your lottery compared to the number of people invited? Or comparable. Delete if not applicable to your project.
Novelty/innovation: Did you try something new? Tell us about it! Delete if not applicable to your project.
Representation model overview: Give a high-level overview of the demographic characteristics of your representation model (eg., Gender, Age, Income…) and why these characteristics were relevant to your Assembly.
Rep model details: If possible, show the breakdown of your representation model (eg., Gender: 18 Men, 17 Women, 1 Gender-expansive person, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Summarize the main characteristics of Assembly’s representation model and why they were chosen.
There is not time to read the details! But – we are curious about them. Remember, these slides will be shared with the group after the presentation.

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NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

#drdvancouver

University of Toronto & Faculty Club

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The hope is that the Assembly will:

Offer insights about barriers Canadians experience when seeking to voice at work
Offer policy recommendations for how to improve worker voice in Canada

Initial plan is to undertake various ‘road-shows’ around Canada to disseminate takeaways and spur further public deliberation

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

HOPED FOR PUBLIC AND POLICY IMPACT

#drdvancouver

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#drdvancouver

APPENDIX

ASSEMBLY NAME

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#drdvancouver

PRESENTER:

Yago Bermejo, Deliberativa

Catalan Climate Assembly�AGRI-FOOD SYSTEM

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Catalonia has a very powerful agri-food production system based mainly on intensive meat production with significant emissions.

Among the possible options, what actions or changes need to be taken in relation to the agri-food production and consumption pattern to mitigate emissions and incentivise climate change adaptation measures, taking into account both the benefits and advantages and the costs and disadvantages involved?

CATALAN CLIMATE ASSEMBLY

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

OVERVIEW AND MANDATE

#drdvancouver

Catalonia
50+50 members
Commissioned by Generalitat de Catalonia
1.2M€

APPR. TIME: 20-30 Seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

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[Context]: Why the assembly occurred. eg., Whose idea was it? What was the political/social etc. circumstances that allowed it?
[Mandate or task statement]: What was the mandate/remit of your Assembly? ie, the problem that people were brought together to solve.
[Location]: As much detail as is relevant: Neighbourhood, City, Province/State, Country; or, if national or international, what regions participated.
# of members: How many total members participated in your Assembly?
Commissioner: Who requested/sponsored/funded your Assembly?
$Budget: If you’re comfortable sharing, it’s great information. Use your local currency.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Tell us the context of your Assembly: From what environment and circumstances did it develop? Broadly, who was involved? Why did your Assembly occur?
Tell us the mandate/remit of your Assembly: What problem were your members gathered to solve?
Summarize the other details

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3 months
6 meetings
[5 in-person, 1 online]
36 hours

CATALAN CLIMATE ASSEMBLY

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PROCESS DESIGN

#drdvancouver

APPR. TIME: <10 seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Process Diagram or Assembly Photo: If available, a visualization of the Assembly process. If not, a photo or graphic from your Assembly.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Timeframe of meetings: eg. If your first meeting was in June 2023 and your last meeting was in September 2024, put June 2023 - September 2024.
# Meetings: How many total meetings were convened?
Format of meetings: Were all the meetings online? In person? A split of both? Were all the meetings hybrid? Tell us more!
# hours of program: How many total hours did any one member spend actively attending Assembly meetings?

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

One- or two sentence overview of the meeting design of your Assembly (number of meetings, format, etc.), briefly including reasons for this design.

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Whereas all the criteria are proportional to the population of Catalonia, the Gov changed the proportionality to over-represent people living in small municipalities and towns, arguing that these individuals have a better understanding of the issues due to their proximity to the agri-food sector. Consequently, people from rural areas, who represent 8.7% of the local population, accounted for a target of 33% of the assembly. Conversely, individuals from big cities, making up 62.8% of the population, were targeted by 34% in the assembly. Participants from medium-sized cities closely matched their demographic.

CATALAN CLIMATE ASSEMBLY

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

RECRUITMENT & REPRESENTATION

#drdvancouver

Letters targeting quotes
Sortition Foundation
20.000 letters
Rate of response = 3,4%

[Innovation] IDESCAT knows the addresses where different citizens live in relation to their age, gender and nationality. By adding the territorial criteria, IDESCAT generated 196 strata. In this way, each stratum was allocated a specific number of invitations proportional to the sample sought for the assembly, except in some strata where it was decided to over- or under-represent the number of letters. The aim was to compensate for any negative or positive bias in the expected response rate. ]

APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Recruitment techniques: How did you register people to sign up for the Lottery process? eg, random mailers; online registration; door-to-door recruitment.
Lottery techniques: How did the random selection process happen? eg, Camelot or other digital tool, manual sortition, names from hats, etc.
# of invitations: For mailers etc. – how many invitations were sent? For other techniques, how many people registered?
Rate of response: For mailers etc. - how many people registered for your lottery compared to the number of people invited? Or comparable. Delete if not applicable to your project.
Novelty/innovation: Did you try something new? Tell us about it! Delete if not applicable to your project.
Representation model overview: Give a high-level overview of the demographic characteristics of your representation model (eg., Gender, Age, Income…) and why these characteristics were relevant to your Assembly.
Rep model details: If possible, show the breakdown of your representation model (eg., Gender: 18 Men, 17 Women, 1 Gender-expansive person, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Summarize the main characteristics of Assembly’s representation model and why they were chosen.
There is not time to read the details! But – we are curious about them. Remember, these slides will be shared with the group after the presentation.

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CATALAN CLIMATE ASSEMBLY

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

#drdvancouver

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The lack of time to address the controversial recommendations, which in turn had the greatest potential impact, has made it impossible for citizens to be more ambitious and fully aware of how much they were reducing the impact of the recommendations by seeking agreement.
Assessments from the commissioning government: 22 recommendations were fully accepted and 4 partially accepted by the commissioner government.
Early elections have taken place and the government that commissioned the assembly is no longer the same as the one that needs to push for its implementation.

CATALAN CLIMATE ASSEMBLY

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PUBLIC AND POLICY IMPACT

#drdvancouver

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Due to the change of government it has become clear that it would have been important to include opposition parties (now in government) in the governance body.
The Catalan process shows us that impact issues are closely linked to controversy, and controversy is uncomfortable. There is a permanent force during the process that tends to push these controversial issues out of the game, and another permanent force is needed to keep them in.
It is important to spend more time on draft recommendations related to the policy dilemma controversies in order to carefully assess the trade-offs and improve their impact.

CATALAN CLIMATE ASSEMBLY

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

LESSONS FOR NEXT TIME

#drdvancouver

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AMPLIFY launched in August

Non-partisan; Philanthropically funded; Community-led.

Multi-method; Experimental; Scale.

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Strong mandate for participatory tools

Survey 4k Australians: priority is housing

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[ASSEMBLY NAME]�[TOPIC/SUBTITLE]

#drdvancouver

PRESENTERS:

Rory Gallagher, Amplify AUS

Emily Jenke, DemCo AUS

ASSEMBLY LOGO OR PHOTO

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Novel multi-phase approach

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�A pan-Canadian conversation about primary care

#drdvancouver

PRESENTER:

Jasmin Kay, MASS LBP

Fall 2022 to Winter 2024 - we hosted the largest pan- Canadian conversation about primary care. The full project included: 1 national research survey, 5 provincial priority panels: one in ON, BC - incidentally held at the Wosk Centre, NS, QC and MB, 10 one-day community roundtables - 2 in each province, focusing conversation with equity-deserving communities who we know are disproportionately impacted by health system inequities, and who are harder to engage in long form processes.

And we produced 17 reports, all available in Eng and in Fre and three of the community roundtable reports are summarized in languages other than the two official languages because these are the languages in which the conversations were held. The final culminating report included the OurCare Standard - 1 new national standard for primary care that has 6 elements that together represent the floor for primary care in Canada.

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Big Four

OURCARE

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

OVERVIEW AND MANDATE

#drdvancouver

What should all residents be able to expect from the primary care system?
What should a high-quality, equitable primary care system look like?
How should factors like community-based care, continuity, and timeliness be prioritized when designing a primary care system that serves everyone?
How should virtual services be used to support primary care?

APPR. TIME: 20-30 Seconds

The project was commissioned by Dr. Tara Kiran, a family doctor and research scientist at MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions in Toronto, and she gathered a small group of primary care leads in each province who worked closely with us to ensure we had a process and curriculum that fit the context of each place. Each province also had an Advisory Group of health system leaders that gave the core team advice of the current issues and priorities within the system.

The panel was tasked with:

“Recommending actions that governments and healthcare providers should take to ensure that equitable high-quality primary care is available for all.”

[Context]:
[Mandate or task statement]: Mandates at MASS tend to have a learning and discussion component and we used the four questions on the slide to guide both the learning/curriculum and the discussions. The first two were used across all 5 panels, the last two were tailored by each region - in QC, for example -advisors felt that the role of for profit care was a key issue the public needed to grapple with so this was the ‘special topic’ there. Ultimately, each panel was tasked with recommending actions that governments and healthcare providers should take to ensure that equitable high-quality primary care is available for all.
The entire project had a budget of more than $1, 25M - split between MASS and MAP. Health Canada funding allowed us to take the project to NS, QC, BC, and MB. It had originally been scoped primarly to ON. Early funders included an Alberta-based private foundation and Staples Canada.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Tell us the context of your Assembly: From what environment and circumstances did it develop? Broadly, who was involved? Why did your Assembly occur?
Tell us the mandate/remit of your Assembly: What problem were your members gathered to solve?
Summarize the other details

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OURCARE

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

#drdvancouver

In-Person

Virtual

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OURCARE

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

RECRUITMENT & REPRESENTATION

#drdvancouver

APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Online, opt-in lottery registration, followed the survey. Originally intended to mail invitations but Health Canada offered us a funding opportunity to expand the project beyond Ontario and uncertainty about this, along with cost, led us to focus our initial recruitment to the online survey that was designed and fielded by Vox Pop Labs who pushed the survey out to their proprietary, panel and in all provinces we also circulated the link to worked through local partners

1935 total registrants

Manual civic lottery

No random mailers. Recruited from online research survey & other general and targeted outreach.

Members were selected based on their age, gender, race/ethnicity, location, newcomer status, and income level,

MASS does a lot to reduce barriers to participation for members, and support them to participate fully in the process, attrition rate of X across the project.

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OURCARE

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

#drdvancouver

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Media coverage

All 5 provincial panel reports had earned media coverage in their respective provinces: newspaper, television, and radio.

Final Report received was picked up by Canadian Press resulting in national media with coverage in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and local papers in each of the OurCare provinces. CBC radio syndication resulted in OurCare coverage reaching more than 25 stations

Member testimonials

3 articles in Healthy Debate, digital health magazine

Co-authoring articles with Principal Investigator and her team

OURCARE

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PUBLIC AND POLICY IMPACT

#drdvancouver

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Policy impact

Principal Investigator and the respective primary care leads briefed key members of government and health sector leads in each province in the lead-up to the release of the Final Report.

In Ontario and Manitoba, conversation is underway with provincial health ministry leads to convene sector leads in each province for a series of conversations about implementing the OurCare Standard.

OURCARE

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PUBLIC AND POLICY IMPACT

#drdvancouver

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Unlikely to rely solely on online recruitment again - depth and breadth of our volunteer pools in each province would likely have been deeper had we mailed an invite to 10,000 randomly selected households in each province.
Allow enough lead-time for outreach and recruitment: those who are harder to reach…are harder to reach
Regional differences are real
Broader circle of institutional champions and buy-in are critical for post-Panel impact.
People really are the best.

OURCARE

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

LESSONS FOR NEXT TIME

#drdvancouver

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OURCARE

#drdvancouver

APPENDIX

Project website: OurCare.ca

Final report: The OurCare Standard

Other reports, including:

National Survey report

National survey data explorer

Provincial priorities panel x 5
Community roundtable x 10

Media library

Jasmin Kay - OurCare National Director - jasmin@masslbp.com

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Municipal Amalgamation

#drdvancouver

PRESENTERS:

Richard Johnson, MASS LBP

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Citizens’ Assembly to determine whether the provincial capital of British Columbia, Victoria, should amalgamate with the nearby District of Saanich (combined pop. 210,000).

“The Assembly will explore the costs, benefits and disadvantages of amalgamation between the City of Victoria and the District of Saanich.”

VSCA

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

OVERVIEW AND MANDATE

#drdvancouver

Victoria and Saanich, BC, Canada
48 members
Commissioned by Victoria, Saanich, and the provincial government of British Columbia
$750,000 CAD

APPR. TIME: 20-30 Seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

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Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

[Context]: Why the assembly occurred. eg., Whose idea was it? What was the political/social etc. circumstances that allowed it?
[Mandate or task statement]: What was the mandate/remit of your Assembly? ie, the problem that people were brought together to solve.
[Location]: As much detail as is relevant: Neighbourhood, City, Province/State, Country; or, if national or international, what regions participated.
# of members: How many total members participated in your Assembly?
Commissioner: Who requested/sponsored/funded your Assembly?
$Budget: If you’re comfortable sharing, it’s great information. Use your local currency.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Tell us the context of your Assembly: From what environment and circumstances did it develop? Broadly, who was involved? Why did your Assembly occur?
Tell us the mandate/remit of your Assembly: What problem were your members gathered to solve?
Summarize the other details

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Sept 2024 - April 2025
8 full-day (9:30 am - 4:30 pm) Assembly meetings
4 public meetings
In-person
64 program hours

VSCA

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PROCESS DESIGN

#drdvancouver

APPR. TIME: <10 seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Process Diagram or Assembly Photo: If available, a visualization of the Assembly process. If not, a photo or graphic from your Assembly.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Timeframe of meetings: eg. If your first meeting was in June 2023 and your last meeting was in September 2024, put June 2023 - September 2024.
# Meetings: How many total meetings were convened?
Format of meetings: Were all the meetings online? In person? A split of both? Were all the meetings hybrid? Tell us more!
# hours of program: How many total hours did any one member spend actively attending Assembly meetings?

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

One- or two sentence overview of the meeting design of your Assembly (number of meetings, format, etc.), briefly including reasons for this design.

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The rough demographics of Victoria and Saanich, over-representing Indigenous and racialized people to adjust for structural and historical imbalance.

VSCA

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

RECRUITMENT & REPRESENTATION

#drdvancouver

Random mailers
“Goldilocks” civic lottery
10,000 mailers
5.8% response rate

First official use of Goldilocks, a civic lottery algorithm developed to maximize fairness.

27 - Saanich

21 - Victoria

24 - men

23 - women

1 - GNC

7 - 16-29 years old

12 - 30-44

17 - 45-64

12 - 65+

28 - Homeowner

18 - Renter

2 - Subsidized rent

35 - White

9 - Racialized

4 - First Nations, Metis, Inuit

APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Recruitment techniques: How did you register people to sign up for the Lottery process? eg, random mailers; online registration; door-to-door recruitment.
Lottery techniques: How did the random selection process happen? eg, Camelot or other digital tool, manual sortition, names from hats, etc.
# of invitations: For mailers etc. – how many invitations were sent? For other techniques, how many people registered?
Rate of response: For mailers etc. - how many people registered for your lottery compared to the number of people invited? Or comparable. Delete if not applicable to your project.
Novelty/innovation: Did you try something new? Tell us about it! Delete if not applicable to your project.
Representation model overview: Give a high-level overview of the demographic characteristics of your representation model (eg., Gender, Age, Income…) and why these characteristics were relevant to your Assembly.
Rep model details: If possible, show the breakdown of your representation model (eg., Gender: 18 Men, 17 Women, 1 Gender-expansive person, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Summarize the main characteristics of Assembly’s representation model and why they were chosen.
There is not time to read the details! But – we are curious about them. Remember, these slides will be shared with the group after the presentation.

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VSCA

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

#drdvancouver

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Clarify and prioritize policy issues related to amalgamation
Deliver a clear recommendation on the question of amalgamation

YES?

Councils’ deliberation

Public referendum

Provincial assent

NO?

Further service integration & other recommendations

�Project website: victoriasaanich.ca

ASSEMBLY NAME

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PUBLIC AND POLICY IMPACT (expected)

#drdvancouver

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New Berliners’ Assembly on Climate Change/Mobility

A Citizens’ Assembly with Migrants

in 5 Languages

#drdvancouver

PRESENTERS:

Kerstin Lücker, Berlin University of Technology

Work, Technology and Participation

ASSEMBLY LOGO OR PHOTO

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TU Berlin organised a small “laboratory“ citizens’ assembly with migrants, conducted in Arabic, Farsi, Ukrainian, English and German.

As an “additional voice“ to the Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change from 2022 (KBR), the participants discussed and formulated their own recommendations on Berlin's future mobility and transport system and voted on the recommendations of the KBR.

Berlin’s Senator for Mobility, Transport and Climate Protection will receive the report on October 14th, 2024

New Berliners’ Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

OVERVIEW AND MANDATE

#drdvancouver

Berlin
26 (30) members
Commissioned as part of

an EU-funded project on

participatory governance

23.000 €

APPR. TIME: 20-30 Seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

[Context]: Why the assembly occurred. eg., Whose idea was it? What was the political/social etc. circumstances that allowed it?
[Mandate or task statement]: What was the mandate/remit of your Assembly? ie, the problem that people were brought together to solve.
[Location]: As much detail as is relevant: Neighbourhood, City, Province/State, Country; or, if national or international, what regions participated.
# of members: How many total members participated in your Assembly?
Commissioner: Who requested/sponsored/funded your Assembly?
$Budget: If you’re comfortable sharing, it’s great information. Use your local currency.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Tell us the context of your Assembly: From what environment and circumstances did it develop? Broadly, who was involved? Why did your Assembly occur?
Tell us the mandate/remit of your Assembly: What problem were your members gathered to solve?
Summarize the other details

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July 12th – 18th 2024
6 meetings
all in person
24 hours

New Berliners’ Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PROCESS DESIGN

#drdvancouver

APPR. TIME: <10 seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Process Diagram or Assembly Photo: If available, a visualization of the Assembly process. If not, a photo or graphic from your Assembly.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Timeframe of meetings: eg. If your first meeting was in June 2023 and your last meeting was in September 2024, put June 2023 - September 2024.
# Meetings: How many total meetings were convened?
Format of meetings: Were all the meetings online? In person? A split of both? Were all the meetings hybrid? Tell us more!
# hours of program: How many total hours did any one member spend actively attending Assembly meetings?

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

One- or two sentence overview of the meeting design of your Assembly (number of meetings, format, etc.), briefly including reasons for this design.

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12 Farsi, 7 Arabic, 12 Ukrainian participants were selected

Stratification by

– gender

– age

– educational background

– language skills

New Berliners’ Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

RECRUITMENT & REPRESENTATION

#drdvancouver

Drawing names from Berlins’ registration office
Lottery by country of origin:

Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Iran, Afghanistan, Ukraine

900
Arabic: 2,7%, Farsi: 14,3%, Ukrainian: 11,3%

Invitation letters in Arabic, Farsi and Ukrainian

APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Recruitment techniques: How did you register people to sign up for the Lottery process? eg, random mailers; online registration; door-to-door recruitment.
Lottery techniques: How did the random selection process happen? eg, Camelot or other digital tool, manual sortition, names from hats, etc.
# of invitations: For mailers etc. – how many invitations were sent? For other techniques, how many people registered?
Rate of response: For mailers etc. - how many people registered for your lottery compared to the number of people invited? Or comparable. Delete if not applicable to your project.
Novelty/innovation: Did you try something new? Tell us about it! Delete if not applicable to your project.
Representation model overview: Give a high-level overview of the demographic characteristics of your representation model (eg., Gender, Age, Income…) and why these characteristics were relevant to your Assembly.
Rep model details: If possible, show the breakdown of your representation model (eg., Gender: 18 Men, 17 Women, 1 Gender-expansive person, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Summarize the main characteristics of Assembly’s representation model and why they were chosen.
There is not time to read the details! But – we are curious about them. Remember, these slides will be shared with the group after the presentation.

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New Berliners’ Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

#drdvancouver

Behind the Fence

Sam Grigorian

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Deschute County Civic Assembly on Youth Homelessness �in Oregon�

#drdvancouver

PRESENTERS:

Linn Davis, Healthy Democracy

Ansel Herz, DemocracyNext

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Deschute County Civic Assembly on Youth Homelessness in Oregon

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

#drdvancouver

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Southampton Citizens Climate Assembly�

#drdvancouver

PRESENTERS:

Paolo Spada, Southampton University

ASSEMBLY LOGO OR PHOTO

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29% of Southampton’s emissions come from the transport sector
Transport is a policy area where Southampton City Council has some direct control
Controversial topic because pedestrianization of certain areas is generating polarised responses
The Leader of the City Council pledged to include the citizens proposal in the upcoming redesign of the Local Transport Plan

Southampton Citizens Climate Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

FOCUS ON TRANSPORT

#drdvancouver

Participants:

Codesign 75
Online 18 stories
Assembly 37 (tgt 42)

Commissioned by City Council Leader
Budget:

40k from the city
100k from grants

Implementation partners:

Involve
Sortition Foundation

APPR. TIME: 20-30 Seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

[Context]: Why the assembly occurred. eg., Whose idea was it? What was the political/social etc. circumstances that allowed it?
[Mandate or task statement]: What was the mandate/remit of your Assembly? ie, the problem that people were brought together to solve.
[Location]: As much detail as is relevant: Neighbourhood, City, Province/State, Country; or, if national or international, what regions participated.
# of members: How many total members participated in your Assembly?
Commissioner: Who requested/sponsored/funded your Assembly?
$Budget: If you’re comfortable sharing, it’s great information. Use your local currency.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Tell us the context of your Assembly: From what environment and circumstances did it develop? Broadly, who was involved? Why did your Assembly occur?
Tell us the mandate/remit of your Assembly: What problem were your members gathered to solve?
Summarize the other details

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4 open codesign meetings (June/July) - 3 hours each
Open digital platform to share stories with the assembly -> lay experts
1 weekend in person meeting (4th November) - 1 day and a half
1 half day online meeting (25th November)
1 weekend in person meeting (5th of December) - 1 day and a half
1 half day of restitution event (March 2024)

Southampton Citizens Climate Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PROCESS DESIGN

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APPR. TIME: <10 seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Process Diagram or Assembly Photo: If available, a visualization of the Assembly process. If not, a photo or graphic from your Assembly.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Timeframe of meetings: eg. If your first meeting was in June 2023 and your last meeting was in September 2024, put June 2023 - September 2024.
# Meetings: How many total meetings were convened?
Format of meetings: Were all the meetings online? In person? A split of both? Were all the meetings hybrid? Tell us more!
# hours of program: How many total hours did any one member spend actively attending Assembly meetings?

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

One- or two sentence overview of the meeting design of your Assembly (number of meetings, format, etc.), briefly including reasons for this design.

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8 selection variables:

Age
Gender
Ethnicity
Occupation
Disability
Climate Concern
Confidence in Gov.
Last Vote

Southampton Citizens Climate Assembly

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

RECRUITMENT & REPRESENTATION

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7443 Physical letters
Stratified random sampling based on geolocation and information about the geolocation
181 sign-ups
2.4%

Novelty: Getting Out To Participate Experiment

(2443 clustered participants: 1224 Door Knocking Treatment vs 1219 control)

APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Recruitment techniques: How did you register people to sign up for the Lottery process? eg, random mailers; online registration; door-to-door recruitment.
Lottery techniques: How did the random selection process happen? eg, Camelot or other digital tool, manual sortition, names from hats, etc.
# of invitations: For mailers etc. – how many invitations were sent? For other techniques, how many people registered?
Rate of response: For mailers etc. - how many people registered for your lottery compared to the number of people invited? Or comparable. Delete if not applicable to your project.
Novelty/innovation: Did you try something new? Tell us about it! Delete if not applicable to your project.
Representation model overview: Give a high-level overview of the demographic characteristics of your representation model (eg., Gender, Age, Income…) and why these characteristics were relevant to your Assembly.
Rep model details: If possible, show the breakdown of your representation model (eg., Gender: 18 Men, 17 Women, 1 Gender-expansive person, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Summarize the main characteristics of Assembly’s representation model and why they were chosen.
There is not time to read the details! But – we are curious about them. Remember, these slides will be shared with the group after the presentation.

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ASSEMBLY PHOTO

ASSEMBLY NAME

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

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Results +2.21% acceptance rate (ITT)

Southampton Citizens Climate Assembly

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ASSEMBLY NAME

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PUBLIC AND POLICY IMPACT

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Southampton Citizens Climate Assembly

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Many people we interviewed during door knocking were not even aware of the letter
Many were not aware of child-care and availability of support information that is buried in the FAQ in the letter
Door Knocking increases acceptance rate in line with the Getting Out To Vote experiment literature (+2%)
Perceived impact is the third most important reason for non participation (after having something else to do, and practicalities)

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

LESSONS FOR NEXT TIME

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Southampton Citizens Climate Assembly

Implement a multi-channel campaign that prepares the ground for the arrival of the letter stressing support to overcome participation cost
We can leverage the results from the GOTV immense literature to optimise the invitation process (see Soton other experiment on the Austrian CA explores different invitation letter +17%)
Reducing the cost of participation
Increasing the impact of assemblies will increase acceptance rate

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Gesellschaftsforum Bundeskunsthalle Bonn / Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden

How can museums become more democratic?

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PRESENTER:

Christiane Dienel, nexus Institut Berlin

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Two public museums in Bonn and Dresden have planned a joint exhibition on Democracy. Exhibition curators demanded that real democracy must happen to prepare this exhibition. Together with the Think Tank DemocracyNext a call was prepared to integrate a citizen assembly in the preparation of the exhibition.

Question for the deliberation: How can a museum become more democratic and open for a broader public?

Gesellschaftsforum Bundeskunsthalle Bonn/ SKD

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

OVERVIEW AND MANDATE

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Bonn and Dresden, Germany
35 members at each location
Commissioned by the two museums (Bonn: funded by FRG, Dresden: State of Saxony)
Both together ca. 150.000 $

APPR. TIME: 20-30 Seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

[Context]: Why the assembly occurred. eg., Whose idea was it? What was the political/social etc. circumstances that allowed it?
[Mandate or task statement]: What was the mandate/remit of your Assembly? ie, the problem that people were brought together to solve.
[Location]: As much detail as is relevant: Neighbourhood, City, Province/State, Country; or, if national or international, what regions participated.
# of members: How many total members participated in your Assembly?
Commissioner: Who requested/sponsored/funded your Assembly?
$Budget: If you’re comfortable sharing, it’s great information. Use your local currency.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Tell us the context of your Assembly: From what environment and circumstances did it develop? Broadly, who was involved? Why did your Assembly occur?
Tell us the mandate/remit of your Assembly: What problem were your members gathered to solve?
Summarize the other details

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11/2023-03/2024
Two weekends in person
One redaction meeting online
Official ceremony to �hand over results in person
Ca. 32 h deliberation time (two weekends)

Gesellschaftsforum Bundeskunsthalle Bonn/ SKD

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PROCESS DESIGN

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APPR. TIME: <10 seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Process Diagram or Assembly Photo: If available, a visualization of the Assembly process. If not, a photo or graphic from your Assembly.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Timeframe of meetings: eg. If your first meeting was in June 2023 and your last meeting was in September 2024, put June 2023 - September 2024.
# Meetings: How many total meetings were convened?
Format of meetings: Were all the meetings online? In person? A split of both? Were all the meetings hybrid? Tell us more!
# hours of program: How many total hours did any one member spend actively attending Assembly meetings?

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

One- or two sentence overview of the meeting design of your Assembly (number of meetings, format, etc.), briefly including reasons for this design.

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More than 50% in both cities had middle school education or below, ca. 25% in Bonn migration background.

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

RECRUITMENT & REPRESENTATION

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Drawing names from Municipal Citizen Registry
Stratification only by gender, age, place of residence
Bonn: 2000 persons invited (all residents age 16y+)
High response rate in Bonn 8,2%, lower in Dresden: 3%
In the Bonn invitation, “simple language” was used.

Gesellschaftsforum Bundeskunsthalle Bonn/ SKD

APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Recruitment techniques: How did you register people to sign up for the Lottery process? eg, random mailers; online registration; door-to-door recruitment.
Lottery techniques: How did the random selection process happen? eg, Camelot or other digital tool, manual sortition, names from hats, etc.
# of invitations: For mailers etc. – how many invitations were sent? For other techniques, how many people registered?
Rate of response: For mailers etc. - how many people registered for your lottery compared to the number of people invited? Or comparable. Delete if not applicable to your project.
Novelty/innovation: Did you try something new? Tell us about it! Delete if not applicable to your project.
Representation model overview: Give a high-level overview of the demographic characteristics of your representation model (eg., Gender, Age, Income…) and why these characteristics were relevant to your Assembly.
Rep model details: If possible, show the breakdown of your representation model (eg., Gender: 18 Men, 17 Women, 1 Gender-expansive person, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Summarize the main characteristics of Assembly’s representation model and why they were chosen.
There is not time to read the details! But – we are curious about them. Remember, these slides will be shared with the group after the presentation.

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ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

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Gesellschaftsforum Bundeskunsthalle Bonn/ SKD

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First time: Citizens deliberate about the function of a museum for democracy
The deliberation process itself became an artefact for the exhibition (via video and photo production)
Methods of deliberation were inspired by art
It could been demonstrated that culture and art are relevant arenas for democratic deliberation

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PUBLIC AND POLICY IMPACT

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Gesellschaftsforum Bundeskunsthalle Bonn/ SKD

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Using simple language in invitations is a powerful tool to improve response rates
An exhibition can serve to prolong the impact of the deliberation
Inclusion of persons with cognitive impairment was easy and natural

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

LESSONS FOR NEXT TIME

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Gesellschaftsforum Bundeskunsthalle Bonn/ SKD

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APPENDIX

https://www.bundeskunsthalle.de/gesellschaftsforum
https://kunstgewerbemuseum.skd.museum/forschung/gesellschafts-forum/
Link to the current exhibition in Bonn: https://www.bundeskunsthalle.de/demokratie
Contact in nexus Institute: Ina Metzner, metzner@nexusinstitut.de

Gesellschaftsforum Bundeskunsthalle Bonn/ SKD

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Citizens’ Assembly on Nutrition�1st Assembly of the German Bundestag

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PRESENTERS:

Felix Arndt, Deutscher Bundestag

Jacob Birkenhäger, ifok

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Topic: "Nutrition in Transition: between a private matter and governmental responsibilities"

“The Citizens' Assembly of the German Bundestag aims to focus on the upheavals already taking place in our everyday diet and to bring the citizens' perspective into the political debate. Particular attention will be paid to on the role of the state in the area of conflict between individual freedom and responsibility for society.”

(from the resolution on appointment of the Citizens’ Assembly, adopted on Wednesday, 10 May 2023 by the members of the Bundestag)

GERMANY’S CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY ON NUTRITION

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

OVERVIEW AND MANDATE

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Germany, Berlin
160 members
Set up by the German Bundestag

APPR. TIME: 20-30 Seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

[Context]: Why the assembly occurred. eg., Whose idea was it? What was the political/social etc. circumstances that allowed it?
[Mandate or task statement]: What was the mandate/remit of your Assembly? ie, the problem that people were brought together to solve.
[Location]: As much detail as is relevant: Neighbourhood, City, Province/State, Country; or, if national or international, what regions participated.
# of members: How many total members participated in your Assembly?
Commissioner: Who requested/sponsored/funded your Assembly?
$Budget: If you’re comfortable sharing, it’s great information. Use your local currency.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Tell us the context of your Assembly: From what environment and circumstances did it develop? Broadly, who was involved? Why did your Assembly occur?
Tell us the mandate/remit of your Assembly: What problem were your members gathered to solve?
Summarize the other details

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GERMANY’S CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY ON NUTRITION

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PROCESS DESIGN

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APPR. TIME: <10 seconds

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Process Diagram or Assembly Photo: If available, a visualization of the Assembly process. If not, a photo or graphic from your Assembly.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Timeframe of meetings: eg. If your first meeting was in June 2023 and your last meeting was in September 2024, put June 2023 - September 2024.
# Meetings: How many total meetings were convened?
Format of meetings: Were all the meetings online? In person? A split of both? Were all the meetings hybrid? Tell us more!
# hours of program: How many total hours did any one member spend actively attending Assembly meetings?

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

One- or two sentence overview of the meeting design of your Assembly (number of meetings, format, etc.), briefly including reasons for this design.

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Selection criteria:

Gender
Age
Education
State
Size of municipality
Diet (vegan, vegetarian, meat eater)

GERMANY’S CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY ON NUTRITION

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

RECRUITMENT & REPRESENTATION

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Step 1: Random selection of 82 municipalities in Germany
Step 2: Invitations by Bundestag President Bärbel Bas are sent by post to 20,000 private addresses provided by the registration offices
Step 3: 2.220 registrations of interested subscribers (=11,7% response rate)
Step 4: Citizens' lottery from 1,000 possible compositions of the CA

Target Responses Final CA

Yellow: lowest education; pink: highest education

Education

APPR. TIME: 15-30 seconds.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SLIDE:

Replace ASSEMBLY NAME in the top left with your Assembly’s name.
Replace the text inside [square brackets] with details from your Assembly

Recruitment techniques: How did you register people to sign up for the Lottery process? eg, random mailers; online registration; door-to-door recruitment.
Lottery techniques: How did the random selection process happen? eg, Camelot or other digital tool, manual sortition, names from hats, etc.
# of invitations: For mailers etc. – how many invitations were sent? For other techniques, how many people registered?
Rate of response: For mailers etc. - how many people registered for your lottery compared to the number of people invited? Or comparable. Delete if not applicable to your project.
Novelty/innovation: Did you try something new? Tell us about it! Delete if not applicable to your project.
Representation model overview: Give a high-level overview of the demographic characteristics of your representation model (eg., Gender, Age, Income…) and why these characteristics were relevant to your Assembly.
Rep model details: If possible, show the breakdown of your representation model (eg., Gender: 18 Men, 17 Women, 1 Gender-expansive person, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING:

Summarize the main characteristics of Assembly’s representation model and why they were chosen.
There is not time to read the details! But – we are curious about them. Remember, these slides will be shared with the group after the presentation.

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ASSEMBLY PHOTO

GERMANY’S CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY ON NUTRITION

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

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The Citizens’ Report with nine final recommendations has been handed over to Bundestag President Bärbel Bas and representatives of all party groups in February 2024.
The Citizens’ Report was discussed by the Bundestag during the plenary sitting on 14 March 2024 and then referred to the Committee on Food and Agriculture as the lead committee.
Since then, there have been two expert hearings on two recommendations, and a third hearing planned.
On the website of the Bundestag, everyone can follow the status of discussion of the nine recommendations in parliament. For every of the nine recommendations, all events, parliamentary proposals etc. are made transparent.
The media coverage on the whole CA process was very high, with all national and many regional TV channels, newspapers, radio stations covering the stories of the citizens and the Citizens’ Report.

GERMANY’S CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY ON NUTRITION

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

PUBLIC AND POLICY IMPACT

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Keep the process design open and iterative, reacting to what happens in the CA and the needs and preferences of the citizens.
Keep a low number of recommendations and make constant prioritization a main feature of the deliberative process.
Keep the close collaboration between design and facilitation team with a scientific body, helping to deepen the understanding and constantly improve ideas and recommendations.
Plan more time between sessions to have enough time to find experts, prepare further input, have time for design and methodology.
Invite even more inhabitants and find ways to include those who will not make it to the CA.
Include MPs even more in the CA process and maybe organise local debates between members of the CA with their MPs in the constituencies.

GERMANY’S CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY ON NUTRITION

ASSEMBLY SHOWCASE

LESSONS AND IDEAS FOR NEXT TIME

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