We are a translocal community of citizens from across North America, that is aspiring to reimagine struggling public consultation processes in our local governments. We believe the existing processes no longer build reliable and strong consensus. We aspire to grow a network of citizen faclitators who will use existing wisdom and an evolving set of new tools to build better consensus in our communities.
We are calling these Resilient Conversations.
We take great inspiration from similar efforts abroad, most notably the vTaiwan process architected by Taiwan's g0v community.
If you'd like to join in on the conversation, great!
- Read the Civicist article that brought us together:
vTaiwan: Public Participation Methods on the Cyberpunk Frontier of Democracy - Review our Contributor Guidelines and Code of Conduct.
- Sign up for the Slack chat tool run by g0v.
- Don't be alarmed that most channels are in mandarin! (g0v is a really rad civil society group that originates in Taiwan.)
- Key places for conversation are:
- vNYC:
#vnyc-daily,#vnyc,#vnyc-grants-conf,#vnyc-articles - General (English):
#general-en,#north-america - Other (Mixed):
#vtaiwan,#intl
- vNYC:
- Review the current list of projects and work with us!
- Visit our public Kanban board used to track the status of our projects
- Visit our GitHub organization used to host our open-source software and other resources
- Join us for a video call stand-up meeting, daily at 11am ET.