Tin Gazivoda
Senior Program Officer at The Open Society Initiative for Europe.
Senior Program Officer at The Open Society Initiative for Europe.
By Tin Gazivoda, BlogActiv EU
Big changes are underway in Gdansk, Poland today. Since July 2016, some of the city’s most vexing problems have been dealt with calmly – even enjoyably — by a changing, randomly-selected “citizens assembly” made up of approximately 60 ordinary city dwellers, who are brought together and given the authority to take action.