{"id":1193,"date":"2024-05-22T09:34:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T09:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consuldemocracy.org\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2024-05-22T09:48:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T09:48:23","slug":"reflections-on-2024-global-forum-on-modern-direct-democracy-bucharest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consuldemocracy.org\/es\/2024\/05\/reflections-on-2024-global-forum-on-modern-direct-democracy-bucharest\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspectos destacados del Foro Mundial 2024 sobre Democracia Directa Moderna, Bucarest"},"content":{"rendered":"

La magnitud y diversidad de las personas e ideas presentes en el Forum Mundial #GlobalForum<\/a> sobre Democracia Directa Moderna, celebrado la semana pasada en Bucarest (Ruman\u00eda), nos dej\u00f3 boquiabiertos.

\ud83c\udf0d The list of countries represented at the Global Forum is long and not limited to Romania, Moldova, Switzerland, Ukraine, Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Colombia, Chile, Brasil, Spain, Germany, France, Belgium, USA, Canada, Tunisia and Turkey, going well beyond Western-dominated debates about democratization and including crucial perspectives from the Global South.

\ud83c\udf04 Hence, there was a lot to learn and take in, starting with a powerful keynote and reminder of the mere brief Romanian (and Eastern European) experience with democracy by <\/a>Adelina-Liana \u021a\u00een\u021bariu<\/a>.

\ud83c\udf31 Inspiring and concrete examples of culturally and locally ‘rooted’ forms of participatory processes came from <\/a>Tatiana Forero Torres<\/a> of the Marea Digital civic tech platform in Colombia, <\/a>Maria Luiza Freire<\/a> of Brazilian Cuidadania Inteligente, in which cases technology plays an important part too.

\ud83d\udca1 Obviously, and importantly, lights were shone on democratic practices and experiments in Eastern European countries. We learned, for example, about ancient Greek democratic practice and its relevance today, about the very rich landscape of North Macedonian referenda, and a inspiring example of citizen rotation juries in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Thank you to <\/a>Erwin Mayer<\/a> of our partner organization <\/a>Mehr Demokratie<\/a>, Marko Krtolica of the University of Skopje and Nikolay Bliznakov Neochron<\/a>, Bulgaria.

\ud83d\udc99 We loved to be able to host a session of our own together with a few Romanian city users of the Consul Democracy participation platform. Big thanks to <\/a>Marian – Valerie Panait<\/a> of Sinaia municipality, Cosmin Dan of Dumbravita municipality and <\/a>Despina Ungureanu<\/a> of Timisoara municipality, and to our partner <\/a>Marius Stan<\/a> of Code for Romania<\/a> for his support.

\ud83d\udd00 Amazing to learn about the Yearly Global Report on Direct Democracy from Luciana Alexandra Ghica of Bucharest University annd <\/a>Raul Magni-Berton<\/a>. Fantastic to get in touch with <\/a>International Observatory on Participatory Democracy<\/a> (IODP) through <\/a>Adria DUARTE GRI\u00f1O<\/a>. Big thanks to <\/a>Charlie Martial NGOUNOU<\/a> from AfroLeadership<\/a> for reminding us that ‘leadership is key’ for any democratic transition to be successful. Great to meet you and thanks for your energy <\/a>Marina-Roxana Corneliu<\/a>. And last but not least, thank you to adventurists Dann Espinoza and Kike Pi\u00f1a for putting smiles on our faces every day \ud83d\ude42

Up to next year in Botswana !

Want to see the entire programme?
https:\/\/www.democracy.community\/stories\/programme-GFMDD2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sheer scale and diversity of people and ideas present at the 2024 #GlobalForum on Modern Direct Democracy last week in Bucharest, Romania, swept us off our feet. \ud83c\udf0d The list of countries represented at the Global Forum is long and not limited to Romania, Moldova, Switzerland, Ukraine, Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Colombia, Chile, Brasil, Spain, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consuldemocracy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consuldemocracy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consuldemocracy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consuldemocracy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consuldemocracy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/consuldemocracy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/consuldemocracy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consuldemocracy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consuldemocracy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consuldemocracy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consuldemocracy.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}