[LINK] Consult Citizens Online on Climate Change

[Tom Worthington]

Last week I attended the conference "Democratizing Climate Governance 
Conference" at the Australian National University in Canberra. This was 
timely as apparently the Prime Minister is about to propose a national 
community consultation process on climate change.

My suggestion would be to use the "Public Sphere" Internet assisted 
consultation process which Senator Lundy developed for this: 
<http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/04/29/public-sphere-1-high-bandwidth-for-australia/>

This would reduce the cost and complexity of organising deliberations 
and allow for wider input by people via the Internet, to supplement 
face-to-face deliberations. We have learnt a lot about how to run such 
blended events since I helped run the first Public Sphere at the ANU in 
2009: <http://blog.tomw.net.au/2009/05/public-sphere-1-worked.html>.

The papers for the "Democratizing Climate Governance Conference" have 
now been released: 
<http://deliberativedemocracy.anu.edu.au/democratizingClimateGovernance.html>.


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Tom Worthington FACS CP HLM, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150
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