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True Causes dey run Structured Democratic Dialogue, method wey get fifty years of practice. Wetin new na say e dey run now for di size of one city instead of one seminar room. For practice dat one mean: municipal government and public consultation · big organisation wey im problem cross departments · regulator wey dey weigh system wey e no design · union or workforce wey im knowledge dey spread across shifts · university or professional association · serious incident review, wia di question na wetin really cause wetin · and di strategy work wey dey usually end for consultant ranked list.
Municipality. No be consultation wey dey produce list of complaints wey dem rank by how loud pipo shout dem, but map wey dey show which of dat complaints dey cause di oda ones — with di disagreements published instead of smoothed away, and evri connection wey pesin fit trace to how dem settle am. Council wey act on di roots fit tok why e choose dem, and resident wey no gree fit point at exactly which question e for answer anoda way. For question wey dem publish, dis na civic intelligence: di pipo wey problem dey affect dey work out im causes by demself.
Workplace or union. Fifteen pipo for warehouse don already know why di picking errors dey happen; di knowledge dey spread across shifts wey no dey ever meet. Dis one dey gather am without anybodi need dey one room at di same time, and di seats wey dem keep mean say di night-shift observation wey nobodi upvote still go reach di map if somebodi fit point at di log. Private room for company fit take in wetin di public rooms for di same question find, and notin from im own go comot.
Movement or campaign. Sixty pipo wey want make dem change di same tin no dey usually gree on why e be as e be, and demand wey no get cause behind am dey easy to refuse. Here di roots na di demands; di actions, wey dem judge each one against each root, na wetin to ask for first; and di record — evri pair, evri vote, evri prediction — na wetin you go bring back one year later wen di answer bin be “we go look into am”. Nobodi need run di whole tin: di question na di organiser, and room dey open to anybodi wey get address for di place wey e concern.
Regulator or profession. Wia expertise dey real but pipo dey argue am, di separation between wetin dem certify (empirical and causal claims, at 75% of di votes wey dem cast) and wetin dem only measure (importance, values) mean say body fit publish causal account without pretending say im priorities na facts.
Diaspora, or anybodi wey di room dey leave out. Di main limit for hall na to dey physically present. Remove am and di pipo wey no fit travel, wey no fit take di day off, or wey dey live three time zones away go dey di same deliberation as evribodi else — on one shared timer, with di same five stickers.
Two old devices, wey dey do real work. Selection by lot: question wey deadlock dey go to groups wey dem pick by random from di rest, neva to anybodi wey volunteer. And equal standing: notin here dey give vote weight by reputation, stake or seniority. Di two old well-well. Wetin no old na asynchrony — assembly need evribodi for one place for one day, and na exactly dat ceiling dis one dey remove.
Who dey count na still political choice. Evri dialogue dey declare who fit take part, and pesin fit read evri map against di variety of di room wey produce am. Di platform no dey decide dat question; e dey refuse to let am remain hidden.
Wetin you go get, and wetin remain your own. Causal account with im origin attached, and record of wetin group no fit gree on. To decide wetin to do, to fund am and to answer for am, na still you and your institutions own.
For social movements and protest, see Afta di squares: wetin di 2011 movements leave open.