A country-wide engagement with citizens, stakeholders, and experts on issues related to national security and the protection of rights and freedoms. Feedback from the consultations helped guide changes to national security tools and the 2015 Anti-Terrorism Act (Bill C-51).
Their mission is to ‘engage the people of Austin in meaningful civic dialogue focused on public issues, hosted by community volunteers across the entire city’ (Conversation Corps, 2017b).
Formed in 1990, the Councils on the Rights of Children and Adolescents are tasked with formulating and monitoring the implementation of public policies aimed at Brazilian youth. The councils are now presents in virtually every Brazilian municipality since their existence is required for the acquisition of national funding for this...
An experiment of citizen participation using “crowdsourcing” to collect feedback and ideas on new legislation on off-road traffic routes. Deliberation and opinion formation among participants was analysed in order to determine the efficacy of online forms of participatory policy-making.