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Citizens Reinvent Democracy
Citizens Reinvent Democracy
Report Title Engaging citizens to reinvent democracy
Triggering Question "What are the characteristics of an ideal future system of governance?"
Dates 19 September, 2012
Total Duration hrs
Statistics Participants=
Number of ideas=54
Number of Clusters=9
Ideas received Votes=28
Ideas on MAP R=
Spreathink ST=47%
Situational Complexity SCI=7.35
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Executive Summary

The project “Engaging citizens to reinvent democracy" was born as an initiative of Future Worlds Center. The one-day workshop is organized as an interactive co-laboratory, fully utilizing up-to-date methodologies and technologies of the science of structured democratic dialogue. The aim of this co-laboratory is to bring together Cypriots of different age groups in an attempt to envision, conceptualize and design new models of democratic governance. The structured democratic dialogue methodology is a highly effective methodology that is employed for conflict resolution and which ensures that a variety of stakeholders represents the problem system of concern and that all stakeholders’ opinions are equally represented in the dialogic process. This project falls under the activities of the Cyprus Presidency. The workshop was facilitated by Dr. Yiannis Laouris,Zoe Apostolidou and Eleni Michail.


The Triggering Question (TQ) was
What are the characteristics of an ideal future system of governance?

In response to the TQ, the participants came up with 54 characteristics, which were categorized in 9 clusters. Following the voting process, 28 ideas received one or more votes and were structured to create the influence MAP shown below.

MAP for Engaging citizens to reinvent democracy.
Influence tree on the characteristics of an ideal future system of governance


According to the participants of this workshop, the characteristic appear to be the most influential was:

  • Characteristic #26, Independent interactive media created by citizens for citizens


The participants had time to discuss and reflect on the influence map and in general agreed that the arrows in the map made sense to them.
In sum, the application of the SDDSM process empowered the team to identify the potential characteristics of an ideal future system of governance.

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