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- civic participation is about contributing your voice and vision to your community
- contributors have a responsibility to engage in the process that decides how their society adapts to change and maintains standards
- participation is more valuable than consensus, it's a mechanism for people to communicate their vision for their world
#### Civic Participation Process
help people express what they truly think without judgment by:
- understand: ensure full understanding of the proposal
- expand perspective: spark exploring proposal impacts from multiple angles
- reflect: uncover deeper rationale for support/opposition
- contribute: add your perspective to community feedback
#### AI Participation Facilitator
- asks a few standardized questions, adapting follow-up questions to the individual
- individual-led dialogue, acting as a mirror rather than giving opinions
- facilitates deep exploration of rationale for opposition or support
- elicits proposal improvements
- goal
- clarity not persuasion
- understanding over agreement
- can emphasize consensus more if proposal problem is severe and urgent