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How much weight, if any, should be given to discussions or engagements with a wider public outside the central deliberation?

Related Goals

Maxi-public engagements that attract and support participation from diverse social groups.

Related Capability

Integrate wider-public

Ability to provide those not in the room deliberating with opportunities to constructively and fairly contribute input into the process.

Dimension: Informedness

Related Existing Resources

Make it make sense: the challenge of data analysis in global deliberation

Goni suggests balancing “Big Data” computational methods with “Little Data”—specific examples, quotes, and stories preserving citizens’ actual reasoning—to ensure core threads of wider public opinion are elicited without losing personal nuance. Proposes democratizing data curation through domain ...