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Wednesday, March 7th
Wed, Mar. 7th 9:00am - 5:00pm |
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Thursday, March 8th
Thurs, Mar. 8th 9:00am - 10:00am |
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| Central High School Auditorium: Conference registration and breakfast in Phoenix, AZ |
Thurs, Mar. 8th 10:00am - 12:00pm |
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Thurs, Mar. 8th 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
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| Vote Walkthrough to tour the Participatory Budgeting (PB) Vote at Central High School |
Lunch Thurs., Mar. 8th 1:00pm - 2:30pm |
| Meet & Eat Small Group Sessions |
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Block 1 Thursday, March 8th, 3-4:30pm |
| UCENT 480A: Imagine what is possible - The role of creativity in democracy |
| Learn about national creative placemaking efforts and how they are supporting the building of civic culture. Understand how forms of expression can support belonging, respond to crisis, and ultimately create equitable communities. Deeply consider how creativity can be used to activate the imagination of citizens in their own communities. |
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Block 1 Thursday, March 8th, 3-4:30pm |
| UCENT 880N: Equity in Participatory Budgeting Program Design |
| Understand why you should engage people in fiscal processes, and how to design with equity. This session will review elements of design thinking and challenge participants to go through discussions and activities together that allow for learning to design a process to promote equity and understand the importance of public participation in fiscal management. We'll also look at Toronto Community Housing, where public housing residents recently helped redesign a stalled PB process in order to renew engagement and a sense of community ownership. |
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Block 1 Thursday, March 8th, 3-4:30pm |
| UCENT 705: Using art to explore participatory democracy work and connections |
| In this interactive workshop, we will use art to explore our own connections to participatory democracy, what led us to our work on improving our democracy, and what we each offer to the field. We’ll explore how we are connected in our communities and how we might connect with others to strengthen participatory democracy. |
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Block 1 Thursday, March 8th, 3-4:30pm |
| UCENT 263: It’s not about the money (and we wanna make the world dance) |
| We offer a interactive session including a game that we designed in the city of Breda in the Netherlands. This game is about a open and transparent process that creates an open dialogue. Participants will learn about how we make democracy fun and about online and offline tools to create strong communities. |
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Block 1 March 8th, 3-4:30pm |
| UCENT 822A: School PB & Youth in PB from Phoenix to Chicago to NYC |
| Learn about the main accomplishments and strategies to implement school PB and include youth in PB in an interactive session with experts that have been directly engaged with the process in three cities. |
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Block 1 March 8th, 3-4:30pm |
| UCENT 580A: Up for deliberation using digital tools |
| While in-person engagement is necessary for public participation, there is also a critical role for digital tools to deepen engagement, increase access, and provide spaces for deliberation. What platforms can help make decisions in community to strengthen participatory democracy? Hear from three companies that have worked to develop deliberative tech to help people make important decisions (Conteneo, Common Ground for Action and Community Crit). |
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Block 1 March 8th, 3-4:30pm |
| UCENT 620A: Applying Participatory Democracy Approach to Justice Issues: Initial Experiences |
| Share initial models and experiences of participatory approaches to justice and justice reform. Define ways in which participatory democracy approaches can be applied to criminal justice reform. |
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Thurs, Mar. 8th 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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Keynote Conversation and Networking at Concho Room - Westward Ho, Downtown Phoenix
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Thurs, Mar. 8th 7:30pm - 9:30pm |
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| Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) Fundraiser at Phoenix Alwun House |
Friday, March 9th
Mar. 9th 9:00am - 10:00am |
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| WEST HALL 135: Breakfast with conference registration |
Block 2 March 9th 10:00am - 11:30am |
| Payne LI-27: Starting PB |
| In this session you will learn about how to initiate a new PB project, explore the challenges and solutions around data collection and analysis, and tips and tools to kick off your PB process. |
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Block 2 March 9th 10:00am - 11:30am |
| Payne LI-20: Community Data Storytelling for Action |
In this hands-on workshop participants will develop skills in community data communication.
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Block 2 March 9th 10:00am - 11:30am |
| Payne LI-24: We the People vs. Corporate Rule |
| In this session you will learn the hidden history of how corporations came to have so much power, how people's movements have successfully changed law and culture in the past to build people power and how we can build a mass democracy movement today. You'll also learn about the legal framework for benefit companies, understand the call for community stakeholder engagement and learn about participatory governance models. |
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Block 2 March 9th 10:00am - 11:30am |
| Payne 205: More enlightened communities are more participatory |
| Hear first-hand from an elected official in Portugal who has made civic engagement a cornerstone of the way Valongo does business. His first point is that community members have to understand how government works to engage with it. Learn about his approach and key initiatives that have had huge results and connect to a nationwide example of participatory budgeting. |
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Block 2 March 9th 10:00am - 11:30am |
| Payne 208: Democratizing College Campuses through Participatory Processes |
| This session will provide a comprehensive overview of the practical side of institutionalizing participatory democracy within spaces that are not democratically run, by demonstrating how participatory budgeting has been implemented on college campuses. Through first-hand accounts, you will see how students can build and sustain capacity for the advocacy and implementation of participatory democratic processes, and how faculty-initiated projects can enhance student benefits and provide career support. You will also learn about the lasting impact of these processes and the various ways they can be replicated and sustained. |
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Block 2 March 9th 10:00am - 11:30am |
| Payne LI-32: Civic Health and Empathy-Based Community Development |
| In this workshop, the Center for the Future of Arizona comes together with two of their key partners – the office of Entrepreneurship & Innovation (ENI) at Arizona State University and School Connect – to discuss the state of civic health in Arizona and teach methods for addressing community needs using design thinking and asset-based methodologies. Come away from this workshop with both contextualized understanding of community development and practical tools for your own work. |
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Block 2 March 9th 10:00am - 11:30am |
| Payne LI-23: Exploring New Directions to Advance Participatory Approaches to Justice |
| Strengthen connections and lines of communication among organizations doing or interested in doing/supporting participatory approaches to addressing justice issues. Lay the groundwork for further collaboration and demonstration projects |
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Josh Lerner | Participatory Budgeting Project
Simon Cameron | COSLA Amanda Alexander | Detroit Justice Center Facilitator: Jesse Jannetta | Urban Institute |
Snack + Coffee Break |
| WEST HALL 135: Rest, recharge, reconnect! |
Block 3 March 9th 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
| Payne LI-27: Creative Civic Engagement - SMS Outreach, Digital Ballots, and Secure Votes |
| Different means of engagement lead to different voter turnout populations, which are important considerations as we build equity-centered strategies. As PB communities expand, how do we modify our outreach approaches? In this session we will discuss the merits of various voting mechanisms and learn unconventional ways of growing PB community engagement beyond voting campaigns. |
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Block 3 March 9th 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
| Payne LI-32: Lessons in reforming democracy: A dialogue between citizen juries and participatory budgeting |
| Hear from leading experts on participatory budgeting and citizen juries and assemblies, and discuss the differences and similarities across them. Learn new approaches from different models, to help improve your work. |
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Block 3 March 9th 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
| Payne LI-24: ECAST I: Lessons from ECAST Network |
| Learn about ECAST’s model of public engagement around socio-technical issues, including how ECAST partners have dealt with challenges associated with developing forums both accessible to a lay audience and useful to clients. Explore the rich outputs of these engagement efforts and how to integrate them into decision-making and policy frameworks. Contribute to discussions regarding how this model can be improved and applied to other contexts. |
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Block 3 March 9th 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
| Payne 205: Secrets of Civic Crowdfunding |
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In this session, you will:
1) learn the basics of crowdfunding 2) begin to understand why and how governments, organizations, and residents all over the U.S. are working together to fund and create civic projects 3) develop a plan for leveraging civic crowdfunding and engaging your supports in your work to meet your long-term goals or strategy |
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Block 3 March 9th 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
| Payne 208: More than youth engagement - advocating for lowering the voting age |
| In this session, you will walk away with: 1) a framework for understanding the mutual reinforcement between Action Civics and youth political participation; 2) case studies (shareable examples) of how Action Civics and campaigns to lower the voting age have worked in practice; 3) an opportunity to meet stakeholders and build relationships working at the intersection of Action Civics and youth political participation; 4) advocacy strategies for implementing Action Civics and deepening youth political participation in specific issue areas; and 5) interactive opportunities to practice advocating for issues in your community with elected officials. |
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Block 3 March 9th 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
| Payne LI-20: From Evidence to Action: Using Research to Promote Youth Participation |
| What are the ways in which youth participate in politics abroad? How can national-level policies encourage youth participation? How can the international community best promote youth participation? This interactive workshop will engage with the research on and reality of youth participation in politics. Hear from the the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute (IRI) about various programs designed to empower youth around the world, followed by cross-national evidence on youth participation and the policies designed to encourage youth engagement in politics. Finally, youth activists from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Jordan will lead individual breakout sessions to discuss how they have engaged with politics and brainstorm with their group how to promote participatory democracy. In sum, prepare to explore the nexus of youth programming, research, and activism to better understand the dynamics of youth political participation. The diversity of viewpoints among the speakers and audience will be leveraged to generate new ideas about youth participation that can be applied across country contexts. |
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Block 3 March 9th 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
| Payne LI-23: Legislative Theatre: Watch, Act, Vote |
| Participate in a model Legislative Theatre session, from play to policy proposals to debate and voting; learn about successful impact on policy development and civic engagement through the Legislative Theatre process in New York City; and discuss applications for interactive, theatrical, fun and accessible policy-making in city governments, schools, neighborhoods and other institutions. |
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Lunch Fri., Mar. 9th 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
| WEST HALL 135: Unstructured Lunch with EXPO |
Block 4 March 9th 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
| Payne LI-20: Advancing Racial Equity in Government Planning and Participatory Democracy |
| Deepen your understanding of how racism impedes efforts to create participatory democracy; gain practical tools and examples of addressing structural racism within a range participatory democracy innovations; take away resources that enable you to use a racial equity lens in your own participatory democracy research or practice; become better informed about the use data and mapping in advocating for community investments, receive resources for further thought and study, particularly regarding effective communication about racism. |
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Block 4 March 9th, 3-4:30pm |
| Payne LI-24: ECAST II: What is it like to be a lay expert? |
| Experience a variety of ECAST’s public engagement activities. Get a feel for what it is like for non-experts to engage with complex socio-technical issues. Explore complex, technical topics in an accessible and engaging way. Offer fePayneack and lessons for future public engagement efforts around socio-technical issues. |
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Block 4 March 9th 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
| Payne LI-32: Building Accountability and Transparency through PB |
| Understand how PB can help you build trust with the community, fight corruption and increase transparency and accountability of the administration. |
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Block 4 March 9th 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
| Payne LI-27: Making Participatory Democracy Fun! |
| Participants will develop critical understanding of the importance of games for public participation and PB. They will learn several new games and guidelines on how to customize activities for different audiences depending on their desired outcome. They will also learn how to facilitate and evaluate the effects and outcomes of gameplay. |
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Block 4 March 9th 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
| Payne 208: Emerging Practices & Experiences in Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) |
| Hear the story of the Red Hook Initiative Participatory Action Research Team: Real Rite$’s participatory action research study and our results. Jump into an interactive, experience-based workshop to explore creative approaches & methods for research and community-led programming. |
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Block 4 March 9th 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
| Payne LI-23: Engaging Across Generations |
| In this session, you will learn to emancipate yourself from the barren of imagination, see the power and limits of democratic innovation, and expand your engagement toolkit through collective wisdom, and also discover a technology-based, intergenerational, participatory policy-making (TIPP) approach that gives cities the opportunity to have policies, generated by evidence, coupled with a commitment to broad and diverse participation in both the process and product. |
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Mar. 9th 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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| Engrained Cafe: Conference reception at Arizona State University |
Saturday, March 10th
Mar. 10th 9:00am - 10:00am |
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| WEST HALL 135: Breakfast with conference registration |
Block 5 March 10th 10:00am - 11:30am |
| Engineering G218: Innovative Participatory Budgeting Across Taiwan |
| In this session, you will learn about: 1) how participatory budgeting was introduced to a young democracy such as Taiwan, with an explanation on the social and political context; 2) how participatory budgeting is conducted in an Asian social context where modern and traditional social relations are mixed; 3) how participatory budgeting is organized and conducted on certain specific functional issues. |
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Block 5 March 10th 10:00am - 11:30am |
| Engineering G227: PB Beyond the City Budget: Case Studies with Federal and County-Level Funds |
| Hear about the successes and challenges from launching and leading PB with county funds in Merced, CA, and Ontario, Canada, and federal funds in Oakland, CA, and Scotland. Chart out possibilities for where to take this work next together. |
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Block 5 March 10th 10:00am - 11:30am |
| Engineering G335: What can we gain from better documentation of participatory democracy? And how can we do it together? |
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Small-group work in which participants share (a) challenges they face in documenting and analyzing participatory democracy, and (b) ideas about how better documentation can help answer key questions of research and practice. A hands-on introduction to the alpha version of Participedia’s new website and its updated data collection models Opportunities to offer recommendations for improvements to Participedia’s data collection model. |
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Block 5 March 10th 10:00am - 11:30am |
| Engineering G215: Changing Our Approach to Civic Education |
| Save Our schools Arizona has been on the front lines of fighting a off a well-coordinated, incremental school privatization effort in the state that began three decades ago with open enrollment, followed by publicly funded charter schools, expanding to School Tuition Organizations (STOs) and vouchers that now siphon hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars out of public schools. Save Our Schools will be conducting an advocacy workshop based on their experience fighting for public schools. Participants will learn about how to identify privatization efforts in their states and how to organize their communities and local networks to support public education. |
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Block 5 March 10th 10:00am - 11:30am |
| Engineering G315: Reinventing Civics: Innovative approaches to student deliberation and civic education |
| Learn about the benefits of deliberation from a developmental framework and about a range of innovative approaches that are reinventing civic education. Hear about an approach that places civic engagement and inquiry as the context for learning , a process in which students participate in the design of their school, and an initiative that replaces student government elections with lotteries. Participate in deep discussions about civic engagement in schools and walk away with tangible tools to foster student inquiry and deliberation. |
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Block 5 March 10th 10:00am - 11:30am |
| Engineering G317: Dealing with Global Democratic decline: What now? |
| Powerful non-deliberative, non-dialogic innovations in participatory democracy include: 1)The Wisdom Council Process, which can facilitate a global “We the People.” Hear how it is being used at the state level in Austria and Germany. 2) Microgrants work all over the world to enable communities to move projects forward. Hear case studies from East Africa and engage in a lively debate about these tools and their ability to help solve the global democratic decline. |
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Snack + Coffee Break |
| WEST HALL 135: Rest, recharge, reconnect! |
Block 6 March 10th 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
| Engineering G218: Measuring Participatory Democracy, PB, and Impacts |
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More than ever, we need tools to help people measure different aspects of participatory democracy, such as the response of voters in participatory budgeting, the readiness of leaders to engage, the attitudes of citizens toward democratic reforms, and the capacity of institutions to support citizen learning, deliberation, and action.
This interactive panel will describe a number of existing tools, compel participants to report on their own measurement work, and get people talking about measurement challenges and how to overcome them. Hear a research review on the case of PB & how PB can create lasting results on deliberation and voter turnout which extends impacts beyond just a process and impacts civic participation in communities. Learn about new tools, help frame challenges and opportunities relating to measurement, and generate ideas for marking our progress. |
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Block 6 March 10th 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
| Engineering G335: Opportunities for Philanthropy in Participatory Democracy |
| This session will aim to explore where, how, and why funders are engaging in civic engagement and democracy building (broadly defined) in the current political climate. It will explore questions including: How do funders define and invest in civic engagement, and how is participatory democracy a part of that process? How are they striving to remain nonpartisan or engage in cross-partisan ways? How are participatory processing informing and shaping their organization’s work? A panel of funders will offer their insight and stories and engage in dialogue with participants. |
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Block 6 March 10th 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
| Engineering G317: Barriers to Participatory governance and how we can contribute to international efforts to move the needle |
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Block 6 March 10th 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
| Engineering G227: Let’s Start PB in Your School: A Workshop |
| Kick start your planning process to bring participatory budgeting (PB) to your school! Participate in all key phases of a lightning speed mock PB process in a school setting and leave with key tools, tips, and next steps to bring this work to your school or school district. |
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Lunch Sat., Mar. 10 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
| WEST HALL 135: Planting a Forest of Our Dreams |
As we come together to share stories the cross-pollination of our understanding brings forth new ideas. These are the seeds of our future together as we grow Participatory Democracy. As we share our final meal as a community, we invite you to share these seeds of understanding you’ve gathered throughout our time together and plant a forest of our dreams.
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Sat., Mar. 10 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
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Education Lecture Hall 117: Closing Keynote Conversation at Arizona State University Tempe Campus
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