WeDecide: How the Green Party of Canada learned to create Sustainable Policy through Continuous Proposal Development
Description:
The Green Party of Canada (GPC) is a grassroots political organization that develops and promotes environmental sustainability, social justice, and economic policies that prioritize ecological health and social well-being.
It took four years, and several false starts, for the organization to adopt WeDecide to evolve a member-driven policy process from a two year physical meeting-centred process, to a fully online continuous process that has dramatically improved member participation and policy responsiveness. Decidim allowed the party to run an entirely transparent process, visible to the public at large, as a demonstration of participatory democracy in action.
The workshop will be an interactive discussion of the benefits, risks and challenges of moving a political party’s policy development onto the open internet, using decidim as a member portal for Continuous Policy Development and organizational transparency. The discussion will include operational and cultural aspects of change management.
Structure:
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Green Party of Canada Case Study (70 minutes)
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Continuous Online Policy Development, including
Continuous Participatory Processes
Multilingual amendments
Friendly-amendment Workshops
Color-coded voting
Formal dissents
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Organizational Transparency
Distributed Unit Self-Publishing
Young Greens Engagement
Running internal elections
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Organizational Change Management
Strategies and lessons from the introduction of decidim to the organization
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Decidim in Operational Workflows
Meeting registrations with member authentication
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Decidim as a Communications Strategy
Policy development as a Search Engine Optimization strategy
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Question and Answer (20 minutes)
Outcomes:
Review of new best practices for political policy development and member engagement
Identification of innovations to simply operations and increase adoption
Language of the session: English
Logistical needs: Screen or projector
Number of people facilitating the workshop: 2, Catherine Jones, Policy Lead and Federal Councillor and John Willson, WeDecide Technical Lead and GPC Fund President
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