Community Cooperative in Australia Conspicuously Selects Board via Sortition

Posted on August 8, 2020 by Ahmed R. Teleb

The Kyneton and District Town Square Co-op set up as an umbrella organization of community groups to democratically manage a historic school building / town square in Australia has a constitution that requires some board members be chosen by sortition.

Scroll down on their home page to see a video of Nivek Thompson speak about sortition and pick five board members out of a hat. Also, several of the activists pose with a placard “Lottery Democracy Lunch” and a sign reads “Lottery democracy arrives in Kyneton.”

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One Response

  1. A.R.Teleb, on August 8, 2020 at 10:06 pm said:

    Should read “has a constitution that requires some board members be chosen by sortition…”

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