http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/2007/09/19/dliberation Comments for "dLiberation, " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/2007/09/19/dliberation <p><strong>Anthony Barnett (London, <a href="http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net">OK</a>):</strong> A new openDemocracy blog has been launched: <a href="http://opendemocracy.net/blog/dliberation">dLiberation</a>. Its immediate mandate, to cover the Tomrrow's Europe experiment in Brussels next month. Its author, the famous J Clive Mathews, known to many of us as <a href="http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/">nosemonkey</a>.Three things are coming together here. At the top level there is the question of how, in an age of globalisation and the internet, we can arrive at trustworthy knowledge, methods of understanding and policies that actually influence the way the world is governed - and as the current financial crisis shows it does need government! It is not good enough for policy makers just to come to the right opinion. The <em>process </em>effects their legitimacy and authority and also their ability to come to conclusions that offend vested interests. This calls for democracy, not of the plebiscitary variety, but a democracy based upon a wise public.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/2007/09/19/dliberation" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/2007/09/19/dliberation">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/2007/09/19/dliberation#comment Deliberative democracy EU ourkingdom Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:42:46 +0100 OurKingdom 43484 at http://www.opendemocracy.net