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New Democracy Projects

The recent electoral crisis opened up a space for public dialogue about the need to rework our democracy. The Co-Intelligence Institute is planning an initiative that is currently manifesting as four possible projects. We will be further exploring and refining them during early 2001. They may become complementary, overlapping projects -- or some or all of them will merge. Currently the focus is the Innovations in Democracy and Beyond Project, since it is likely to speak to more mainstream citizens.

• The Innovations in Democracy and Beyond Project covers all innovations relating to a citizen-empowered politics and governance, including visions of social self-organization that reach beyond what people normally think of as democracy.

• The Wise Democracy Innovations Project covers those innovations that move us towards a democracy capable of generating and using the people's wisdom.

• The Sustainable Democracy Project (not yet outlined) explores the kind of democracy and democratic innovations that would support sustainability -- and the reasons why it is necessary to include democracy in any vision of sustainability.

• The Collaborative Democracy Network is an effort to bring together people involved in collaborative practices of all sorts, to co-create more collaborative forms of politics and governance.

Your comments and questions about these and other work of the Institute are welcomed at cii@igc.org.