The utopian future of public participation

What would the world look like if participatory practices became the way we governed ourselves and structured our world? Rosa Zubizaretta has been doing some thinking about that and some of her friends have written a utopian screenplay to imagine that future.

Rosa’s work in this field sits alongside many others who are continually thinking about how to bring more large scale participation into governance. Participedia is a website that collects information about all of these ways of working and is worth a long linger.

My local MP Patrick Weiler on the Canada-Alberta MOU. I have a lot of respect for Patrick,, even though I find myself increasingly disagreeing with him on substance of issues. But it’s very good to get in-depth interviews with local members of Parliament so we can get some insight into how they are thinking about and positioning themselves on these issues. I wish we could be more deliberative on these issues.