Video of Workshop on Citizens Juries and Sortition

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Adam Cronkright

This past March, a deep-dive workshop on Citizens Juries, Citizens Assemblies, and sortition was put on by members of Democracy R&D at the Innovations in Participatory Democracy Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. I have posted the full video recording of the workshop as a playlist on YouTube.

The full-day event was geared toward practitioners and included:

An overview of sortition and its increasing use around the world by David Schecter (newDemocracy Foundation) – Part 1
A walk-through of how to convene Citizens Juries by Kyle Bozentko (Jefferson Center) – Part 2
A discussion about the challenges of trying to scale sortition-based practices like Oregon’s Citizens Initiative Review without losing integrity of the process, led by Tyrone Reitman (Policy Jury Group and formerly Healthy Democracy) – Part 3
Engaging Q&A with people working in different contexts and countries – in all videos and especially Part 4

rcaze, on April 30, 2018 at 1:02 pm said:

A video saying that will have an interesting month of may in France https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOX3-ZPw3eM.

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Yoram Gat, on May 1, 2018 at 5:45 am said:

Bonne chance! Mais il faut avoir un plan. Simplement avoir des rendez-vous ou des manifestations en esperant que quelque chose bonne apparait n’est pas une prometteuse mode d’action.

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keithsutherland, on May 1, 2018 at 12:58 pm said:

Great Franglais Yoram, reminds me of my all-time favourite TV series ‘Allo ‘Allo:

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2018 review – sortition-related events | Equality by lot, on December 20, 2018 at 9:54 am said:

[…] Reports about sortition being used or advocated at local government appeared in the press. An initiative for appointing judges by lot is under way in Switzerland. Charlie Pache, a Swiss sortition activist, promotes single issue allotted citizen panels. Academic conferences about sortition were held in Belgium and in the US. […]

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