Session Topic: Reaching/engaging with the disenfranchised - How to?   

Participants (apologies if misspelled: pls correct and also pls add bios to Participants page!): Erica Balch, Mark Bondyra, Graham F. Scott, Marina Reckzin, Sappho Mullins, Tania Samsonova, Michelle Hamilton-Page, Peter Jones, Segalea (??) 

What groups are disenfranchised?

·People that are not ChangeCampers – how does a society reach them

·The elderly, those that don’t care, insular communities, geographic, etc

·What does the public/government do? What are the gaps?

·Health Care - what are examples/case studies where marginalised groups have been implicated?

·Dynamic demographic changes

·How do we find these marginalised groups?

·How do we scale/measure the group sizes?

Rights of Nature - total communities/environments

Is this a policy problem?

Civic responsibility 

Facilitate/Education/Tools

·Technology, cell phones, access

·Participation and involvement

How do we LISTEN?

·Social media is about talking

·Who is listening?

Bureaucracy distracting

Self-responsibility does this mean citizen-to-citizen?

·Citizen mentors

·Back to education

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How co-create framing of disenfranchised issues?

Disenfranchisement in the media?

·Public apathy

·Public outreach

Critical mass

·How to create a network of those that are disenfranchised?

·Will this give ‘them’ more political mass and therefore more political will? 

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What Happens Next?

Online group? Face 2 Face meetings? Who wants to get involved?