GRASSROOTS: Growing Local Democracy
Terrific video that demonstrates how local democracy can be strengthened at the local level through welcoming and respectful methods of public engagement.
Congratulations to Graeme Gibson for putting this together.
GRASSROOTS was a public forum on growing local democracy, held in the regional NSW city of Nowra, in September 2011. The aim of the forum was to start a community wide conversation on issues of democracy, citizen participation and possibilities at the local level — the level closest to the people. More than 100 participants heard a panel of speakers present ideas from their fields of community engagement, alternative democratic models and planning. After this, using a World Cafe method, participants weighed up the ideas they had heard, what they liked or were concerned about. Enthusiasm and a high level of support for greater citizen engagement in decision making was evident.
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