[Ag Meinungsfindungstool] Participedia

[Dinu Gherman <gherman AT darwin.in-berlin.de>]

Hi,

for those who speak English on this list nowadays: I want to share a 
reference with you that reached me today via a friend of mine who did his PhD 
on Deliberative Democracy, namely that to Participedia, a "Community for 
Political Participation". Maybe this will be of interest to some of you. I 
copied the "about" text from the site below.

Regards,

Dinu


http://participedia.net

Participedia is an open global knowledge community for researchers and 
practitioners in the field of democratic innovation and public engagement.

About Participedia

Participedia harnesses the power of collaboration to respond to a recent 
global phenomenon: the rapid development of experiments in new forms of 
participatory politics and governance around the world.

We live in a world in which citizens of most countries are asking for greater 
involvement in collective decisions. Many governments, non-governmental 
organizations, and even some corporations are responding by experimenting 
with ways to increase public participation.

Hundreds of thousands of participatory processes occur each year in almost 
every country in the world. They are occurring in a wide variety of political 
and policy problems. And they often supplement and sometimes compete with 
more traditional forms of politics, such as representative democracy.

Participedia responds to these developments by providing a low-cost, easy way 
for hundreds of researchers and practitioners from across the globe to 
catalogue and compare the performance of participatory political processes.

Practitioners, activists, government officials, and journalists will benefit 
from Participedia’s searchable database of cases, methods, and organizations, 
including knowledge about how well processes have worked for similar 
problems, under similar conditions.

Social scientists, policy analysts, democratic theorists, and other scholars 
will benefit from access to a dynamic, diverse, and growing source of 
comparable qualitative and quantitative data. We encourage you to contribute 
information on case studies, methods and organizations. The more you 
participate, the more you will appreciate what this site has to offer.