Nuclear Citizens’ Jury 1 Report
The first Citizens’ Jury on Nuclear in SA has wrapped up – what an exhilarating few weeks. The Jury’s report can be found here. FINAL Nuclear Citizens’ Jury Report
View ArticleNuclear Jury Stakeholder Reference Group: Opposing sides gather to guide...
Opposing sides gather to guide nuclear Citizens’ Jury
View ArticledemocracyCo to deliver final citizens’ jury on nuclear fuel cycle
Media Release: democracyCo to deliver final citizens’ jury on nuclear fuel cycle
View ArticleDual Approach Drives Democratic Business
Media Release: Dual Approach Drives Democratic Business
View ArticleDulce sets example through jury experience
Media Release: Dulce sets example through jury experience
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Democracy Co takes a new style of government to the world
Ahead of running the second citizens’ jury on South Australia’s nuclear involvement, the two locals behind Democracy Co talk about how a personal revelation became a thriving international business....
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Marriage Equality: it’s time to ask the jury
Opinion – Emma Lawson With the issue of marriage equality in Australia having now stalled, community engagement expert Emma Lawson suggests that the citizens’ jury process might point to a way...
View ArticleOpinion is King
As conveners of the recent citizens’ jury on nuclear waste storage in South Australia we explore the trend towards individualism, its consequences for public policy and the opportunities offered by...
View ArticleA new frontier! People’s Policy
democracyCo are excited to today launch a new frontier of deliberative democracy – People’s Policy. A coalition of non-government and philanthropic organisations are working with us on an innovative...
View ArticleLet’s ask more of Australian Democracy
In October of 2015, horrified by the Donald Trump shenanigans, we wrote to InDaily and they published our musings. You can read our article here.
View ArticleInternational Success
In Mid 2016 we won the contract to train members of the Singaporean Government in Citizens Juries. Press Release Singapore Success
View ArticleThe Startup Seeking to Change the World
InDaily (Adelaide) profiled democracyCo in 2015. The writeup (and a nice pic) is here.
View ArticleOpen letter to Malcolm Turnbull – Deliberative Democracy meets Climate Change
Dear Prime Minister, Congratulations on your new role. We are very excited and have our hopes elevated by your new standing and leadership role. This letter is somewhat unusual as it mixes business and...
View ArticleSeven ways to raise the citizens’ voice
Across the world we are seeing an increasing trend towards citizens wanting to have a voice in how they are governed. We have seen the emergence of a plethora of online tools designed to raise the...
View ArticleWant better politics? The case for ‘slow’ policy
The problems of Government are a consequence of a paucity of process – for which we are all responsible. A lot of the political challenges our governments are facing are caused by the demise of good...
View ArticleDoing democracy globally
Last week I flew to the US to attend a multinational research exchange at the Kettering Foundation, in Ohio. This was my third year working with the foundation – to explore and find ways to get ‘our’...
View ArticleCommunity must be invited along the path to reform: InDaily
Reform is hard, and elections aren’t the time to do it – so when is …? This is hard for me to say as I have always believed that it is important for political parties to stand for something and argue...
View ArticleLet’s take Australian democracy to the next level
democracyCo was recently contacted by a resident of Victoria – Robert Salter, who has a passion for improving our democracy. Robert contacted us as he was wanting to set up a community group to...
View ArticleThe fundamentals of deliberative democracy
There are 6 key elements to deliberative democracy – which when used in combination support successful sustainable policy development. We are delighted to have published our expertise in collaboration...
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