I think there’s a lot of open space in between sending out surveys and giving people binding voting power. I’m not a fan of asking people to vote on things they don’t know about. However, I have something in mind of “inviting people to contribute in a public conversation and decision-making process”. Final decision power would still be with CEA, but input is more than one-off, the decision-making is more transparant, and a wider range of stakeholders is involved. Obviously, this does not work for all types of decisions—some are too sensitive to discuss publicly. Then again, it may be tempting to classify many decisions as “too sensitive”. Well, organisation “opening up” should be an incremental process, and I would definitely recommend to experiment with more democratic procedures.
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I think there’s a lot of open space in between sending out surveys and giving people binding voting power. I’m not a fan of asking people to vote on things they don’t know about. However, I have something in mind of “inviting people to contribute in a public conversation and decision-making process”. Final decision power would still be with CEA, but input is more than one-off, the decision-making is more transparant, and a wider range of stakeholders is involved. Obviously, this does not work for all types of decisions—some are too sensitive to discuss publicly. Then again, it may be tempting to classify many decisions as “too sensitive”. Well, organisation “opening up” should be an incremental process, and I would definitely recommend to experiment with more democratic procedures.