March 2017, Study Session: Big decisions: Citizen juries and ballot platforms

Kyle Bozentko of the Jefferson Center shared lessons from “citizen juries“, which take a randomly selected and balanced group of citizens to deliberate and make informed and thoughtful recommendations about a public issue.

Ashish Goel of Stanford’s Crowdsourced Democracy Team works on collaborative decision-making, including developing innovative ballot platforms for participatory budgeting in many cities across the US.

The PB Network [more info here] co-creates calls and panels on civic research and technology topics relevant to participatory budgeting. See all the calls listed here, and the conversation on Twitter here: @PBProject #participationlab.