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Preparing for Launch
Welcome to the Empowering Public Wisdom website! On August 7, 2012, Empowering Public WIsdom – published by North Atlantic Books and distributed by Random House – will be available in bookstores. You...
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Empowering Public Wisdom is being serialized
The transformational network Reality Sandwich is collaborating with North Atlantic Books to serialize EMPOWERING PUBLIC WISDOM online – approximately one chapter every three weeks. Chapter 1...
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New video trailer for Empowering Public Wisdom
We’ve posted our new video trailer for EMPOWERING PUBLIC WISDOM on YouTube. Check it out and post your comments about it. For details about what’s special about our approach to revitalizing democracy...
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Citizen deliberators generate well-considered recommendations
The process and mandate of panelists in citizen deliberative councils tend to make randomly selected people act much more responsibly as citizens while on the council. A recent article in the New York...
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Ode/Intelligent Optimist features Tom Atlee’s democracy work
The current issue of The Intelligent Optimist (formerly called Ode magazine) has a cover theme “How to fix politics: More engaged citizens, less business as usual”. In their introductory essay “Join...
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New forums on “public wisdom” announced
Tom has launched a discussion space not specifically to discuss the book, but to discuss public wisdom. Below is his intro to the dialogue. Feel free to join in....
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Chapter 3 now posted online
The first three chapters of EMPOWERING PUBLIC WISDOM are now posted on the Reality Sandwich online community. You can link to them and to the Preface and Manifesto on the Table of Contents page of...
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New videos of Tom Atlee speaking about public wisdom
These videos were made during October. October 12 - at the National Coalition for Diaogue and Deliberation conference in Seattle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngSRY3Yw-eQ (edited, 14 minutes) October...
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Chapter 4 posted online
This chapter looks at where the wisdom could come from to make our citizen-based public policy wise. 4. Public wisdom: its role, its sources, and its limitations
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Chapter 5 posted online
This chapter explores the unique democratic power of random selection, tracking its roots to ancient Athens and noting how randomly selected “mini-publics” of citizen deliberators can help all of us...
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