focused, non-partisan, face-to-face discussion of public policy concerns and ideas toward their solution by Rogue Valley residents
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| Key Features | All interaction would be in-person. There would be no chat rooms or discussion forums in the knowledge base, nor links to social media.
Stick is an assembly - not an organization.
Mutual understanding among participants is the goal and not the changing of minds. The give and take would be respectful, impersonal, and focused on facts and ideas. |
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| | Proposed: a Rogue Valley in-person discussion society combined with an online, regional knowledge base | |
The Rogue Valley Discussion Society
the human arts to study, discuss, vote | | The Knowledge Base
the technical crafts to collect, store, report | | | The Stick to the Subject project invites Rogue Valley residents from all backgrounds and points of view to create the Discussion Society: a network of small conversation groups that would meet in public locations to study, discuss, and vote on solutions to public policy issues selected by the Society.
| What are your concerns?
Society members are surveyed for their public policy concerns. The top ranked concerns become the subjects of discussion. | What are your ideas?
Society members submit original ideas on the subjects of discussion to be considered along with standard positions. |
| The Process in a Nutshell | Think about it.
Society members self-study the selected subjects using the Knowledge Base and their own resources. | Talk about it.
Society members attend face-face discussions on the subjects in groups of less than ten people at public locations. | Vote on it.
Society members vote on the subjects using anonymous, ranked voting to create a public record. |
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| American Deliberative Democracy |
| | | | | |  | Stick to the Subject is a network of Conversation Sit-downs/After Parties held at public locations throughout the Rogue Valley connected and supported by the Knowledge Base. | |  | The Knowledge Base is a browsable and searchable online relational database that stores information on subjects related to the Society, Economy, Culture, and State of the Rogue Valley. | | Society | Economy | Culture | State | | | | | | | | | | | |
