The deliberation cycle: eight stages
Metagov's governance-cycle taxonomy for deliberative tools: framing, eliciting, learning, deliberating, proposing, deciding, actuating, reflecting. Name which stage a build serves and design the hand-off to the next.
Metagov's Deliberative Tools Gallery maps "digital tools that go beyond basic voting and commenting" across a governance cycle. The eight stages, verbatim:
- Framing: naming the question so it can be worked on together
- Eliciting: gathering what people actually think and need
- Learning: building a shared picture before opinions harden
- Deliberating: weighing options together, tensions on the table
- Proposing: turning what was heard into concrete options
- Deciding: choosing together, with a method everyone can see
- Actuating: carrying the decision into action
- Reflecting: looking back at what the process taught
A block or neighborhood usually lives in the middle five: eliciting, learning, deliberating, proposing, deciding. The useful discipline for a build: say which stage(s) it serves, and design the hand-off so every stage's output is the next stage's input, with the last output landing back with people (a meeting, a flyer, a decision someone carries forward).
Details
- repo url: https://github.com/metagov/interop
- curator url: https://metagov.org/projects/interop
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Build prompt
A "what we heard" report page
Build prompt: after the listening, a report page in the Talk to the City pattern: themes with real quotes, minority views kept visible, a…
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Build prompt
A listening wall for one neighborhood question
Build prompt: a Pol.is-style listening wall for one question, two weeks open, QR flyer on every corner, with a printable consensus summary…
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Tool
CivicOS (BLOOM Project)
Infrastructure for public problem-solving: an Open Poll maps the opinion landscape, small-group community conversations work through…
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Framework
Community Lore
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Tool
Decidim
The free participation platform cities and cooperatives run themselves: proposals, assemblies, participatory budgeting, consultations.…
Contributed by Metagov, Interoperable Deliberative Tools project (Liz Barry, Aviv Ovadya, Amy Zhang, Joshua Tan, Eugene Leventhal) · metagov.org/delib-tools
Original source: https://metagov.org/delib-tools
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