One definition of civil is of or relating to citizens and their interrelations with one another or with the state. It seems simply stated until you remember that it has taken a steady stream of acts of law since 1776 to lay an oft ignored foundation of suggested...
Why is something that is so universally necessary so controversial? The topic of energy stimulated hours of thoughtful discussion. The discussion went from debating whether food should be grown for ethanol when people need food to live to how can we curb the...
One of the three stools of the Interactivity Foundation’s (IF) mission is public policy discussion. This year, we launched an Urban Initiative—discussions in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and West Palm Beach, Fla. By the end of 2012 we expect to host 60...
Democracy, Democracy, Democracy…after saying the word a number of times, I am still not sure what it truly means, and now realize that it has various meanings to different people. On August 29, 2012, the DC Supper Club reconvened and tackled the tough issues...
"Educativo." "Interesante." "Necesario." Estos fueron palabras que los participantes usaron para describir su experiencia con el primer discusión de IF en español en los Estados Unidos. Doce participantes se reunieron en el Latin American Montessori Bilingual...
Participants in the discussion of the draft report “Future of the Arts & Society” included a radio personality, a civil engineer, an adult student, a retired legal community administrator, and a lawyer. The ages ranged from mid-twenties to mid-fifties and we...
A Washington, D.C. group of Howard University alumni gathered to discuss a draft report of the Future of the Arts and Society project. They ranged in age from 30 to 60 years old. There was a judge, an investment manager, nurse, consultant, and travel agency owner...
Should everyone have equal civil rights? This group felt that civil rights should be based on the highest morality of the people and the people have a civic responsibility to enforce those rights for all US citizens. Exceptions should be considered and made on a...
The group began discussing the issue of civil rights from their own idealistic philosophical points of view. After discussing which populations of people should have certain rights, the group uncovered deeper feeling of unfairness to the “system” if, for example,...
To answer the question directly, the primary objective of public discussion is to promote democratic discussion of policy concerns as a way of contributing to citizens’ individual and social choices and, through them, to useful public policy making. This objective...