Future-Ready Society Conference Series: Learning Journey 3 – Participedia

Participedia.net is a global network and crowdsourcing platform for policymakers, civil society organisations, practitioners, and researchers interested in public participation and democratic innovations. It provides a crowdsourced database of over 2,200 cases and 360 methods that policymakers and civil society organisations can use to allow citizens to participate in collective decision making and collaborative governance. Come join us for a learning journey to understand why and how this platform and network was created, and what the most significant methods or case studies are from the point of view of those who manage the platform. There will also be a practical session that demonstrates how to use and contribute to the knowledge base.

Patrick SCULLY is president of Clearview Consulting and served as Participedia’s Managing Director from 2011 through July 2021. Earlier in his career, Pat was Executive Vice President of The Paul J. Aicher Foundation and deputy director of its flagship program, Everyday Democracy. Prior to that, Pat was a program officer and director of research at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, and a project manager at The Harwood Institute, a nonpartisan public-issues research firm. Pat was a Fulbright Scholar in Budapest, Hungary in 1993-94 where he advised newly formed civic associations throughout East Central Europe who were integrating public deliberation into their work. Pat holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in social science from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is also a former Democratic Governance Program Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.

Paul EMILJANOWICZ is the Managing Director of Participedia and a sessional lecturer in Political Science and Arts and Science. He is an active member of the Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa and the Global Development Section of the International Studies Association, as well as a board member for Demo.Reset: Deliberation in the Global South and Africapols. His research focuses on reconceptualizing development, the state, and democracy by engaging with traditionally excluded ideas and peoples. His work strengthens, defends, and re-imagines inclusive democracy and citizen participation through democratic innovations. Dr. Emiljanowicz has published in Postcolonial Studies, Third World Quarterly, Interventions, The Australasian Parliamentary Review, Small Axe, Democratization, Routledge, SAGE, and Athabasca University Press (forthcoming), and in media outlets like Africa is a Country and The Conversation. He is completing a manuscript under a University Press and co-organizing a special issue on Democratic Pedagogies. He also co-founded a new peer-reviewed journal, Democracies, published by Amsterdam University Press.

Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Please click here to register by Sunday, 11 August 2024.

After you register, the link and password to the meeting will be sent to you one to two days prior to the event. Please do not forward this email or the link to the meeting, as participation is by invitation only.