I feel very grown up - and mildly "but I'm not actually interested in that subject as much as in..."

[oneiriad]

A couple of weeks ago I got a letter from the Danish Board of Technology Foundation, inviting me to (sign up to be selected to) participate in a Citizen Summit about the prioritizing of Denmark's available space in the future. Nature vs culture balance and that sort of stuff. And I thought, well, why not, so I signed up, and today I got a letter telling me that I'm one of the ones picked to go.

Hey, look at me being all mature and involved in democracy stuff and such.

Dammit, that means I'll need to get up early on a saturday to get to Odense. I clearly did not think this thing through...

Comments

[blnchflr]

Whoa, that sounds very serious - I'm impressed :)

[luzula]

Very cool! I'd totally be into something like that--I find the question very interesting.

Or, well, it depends how it's organized, I guess. My environmental organization is often invited to dialogues and the like which require a lot of time/energy; it's often a way to dampen criticism and include critics in the mainstream such that they'll shift their position to a less radical one. We usually say no.

[oneiriad]

i am feeling terribly adult. (I'll tell them we need more libraries. Everywhere. Even in the windmills.)

[oneiriad]

I thought this might be something more relevant to your interests.

To be fair, as I understand it, a citizen summit is not really a place for special interests groups. From what I'm reading it's more along the lines of an advanced polling technique? Get representative set of people together, make sure they all have minimum amount of info available, see what they think about these things that are probably a bit difficult to get decent answers about in a telephone survey. Or something.

[luzula]

That does sound like a potentially worthwhile thing. I don't think Sweden has anything like that?

[calvinahobbes]

That really does look terribly adult for a Saturday. But the breadth of speaker and institutions looks promising I guess.

I'm just sorry I'm not home that weekend or I would invite you to sleep over :(((

[oneiriad]

Way to adult for a saturday. I didn't realize I had gotten that adult...

Hmmm. Maybe I can get them to move the summit to the next week?