Deliberative democracy in action from Scottish Parliament. It was an absolute pleasure to act as a witness at one of the Climate Change People's Panel sessions and hear what they had to say - have a read of their recommendations 👇

We are challenging OGP countries to advance ambitious #opengov reforms through the #OpenGovChallenge .

🇪🇺 Join us to learn more what are the opportunities for #Europe and how to take part in it.

🗓️ Apr 25 🕐 13-14:30 CET

🔗 bit.ly/open-gov-chall…

📣 How do people assess democracy around the world? The #PerceptionsofDemocracy Survey Report is out now!

Access it to explore the findings ⬇️
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I guess that’s why we need a permanent global citizens’ assembly undispatch.com/why-we-need-a-… United Nations Foundation UN Dispatch Iswe Foundation

The French Law on End of Life has been submitted to Parliament for debate.

This follows the Citizens' Convention on End of Life, where 184 people deliberated for 27 days from Dec 2022 - April 2023, producing 67 recommendations. They will meet President Macron on 26 April.

The misinformation & ignorance is just staggering. Danny Kruger says “we” intended the Convention as a “gift” to the Continent & never intended to sign up only doing so later. In fact, the U.K. one of the FIRST states to ratify in 1951. The Convention came into force in 1953.

No need to say: I truly believe in the potential of the European Citizens’ Panels whichever topic they tackle but in this case, I feel more than ever that they provide a space - diverse, deliberative, respectful, collective - that is too absent in our democracies #NoPlaceForHate

Happening tonight at 7pm. Make sure you don’t miss it 👇

This May, join thousands worldwide during Open Gov Week 2024 and help to build more transparent, accountable, and inclusive governments.

Register your event and access resources at opengovweek.org

As divisions and polarisation increase in anticipation of upcoming Austrian parliamentary elections in autumn 2024, Citizens’ Assemblies could be just what’s needed to defuse tensions. More in my op-ed in Die Presse (in German): tinyurl.com/mr2ajkj5
DemocracyNext IWM

Scotland is to become the first part of the UK to make it mandatory to register any use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the public sector.

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Definitely time for a #wellbeingeconomy catch-up. Join us tonight for a LIVE chat with Lukas Bunse and Kairin van Sweeden 7 pm UK. youtube.com/watch?v=mSz_3w…

'But society is as poorly served by those who seek to dismiss the consequence of hate – lawful or otherwise – as nothing more than 'hurt feelings', or who amplify it in pursuit of their own agenda.' My The Herald column on the Hate Crime Act. heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…

Happy to welcome a new randomly selected group of European citizens who will deliberate during 3 weekends on the essential topic of “tackling hatred in society” #NoPlaceForHate #UnionOfEquality

The last 24 hours have been really hard for disabled children and young people. So here’s my message to them:

“You’re amazing. Don’t let anyone ever tell you, you can’t be included because you can.”

🩷💪👇

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak just vowed to join Russia & Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR if needed to get his flights to Rwanda

If you stand against his plan RT this widely. The country must wake up urgently

Our Policy and Engagement Lead, Dr Lukas Bunse, will be joining the Scotonomics podcast on Monday evening to talk about land reform in a #WellbeingEconomy Make sure you don't miss it!

Find out more: scotonomics.scot

In a world where our economic practices come at the expense of people and the planet, we need to rethink the approach.

📄 Read the new paper on changing finance by Tom Jess, Peter Blom, and Sandrine Dixson, for insights on #regenerative financial systems. ➡️ clubofrome.org/publication/ch…

🧵 It’s against the law to ‘sell’ seats to the House of Lords. Yet Transparency International UK’s latest research shows nearly 25% of party nominated peers in the last decade were also party donors #UKPolitics #HouseofLords #Democracy #AntiCorruption mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

The UK must end arms sales to Israel.

If the UK Government are unwilling to act then Parliament should force them to do so.

But that can’t happen whilst the doors to Westminster lie shut.

Parliament should be recalled without delay.

#Gaza