 | Citizen Deliberative Councils
CDCs are temporary groups of 10-50 citizens whose diversity approximates - or serves to symbolize - the diversity of the community or society from which they were drawn. Convened for a defined series of sessions, a CDC deliberates on general public concerns or a specific public issue, using dialogue to reach understandings that it shares with authorities, the press and the public - and then disbands. Models currently in use include citizens' juries, Danish-style consensus conferences, and German-style planning cells (http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-CDCs.html).
(Source NCDD, 2004)
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