We are very excited to announce a new collaborative initiative between MONDRAGON, DemocracyNext, MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and Arantzazulab to learn and explore new ways to democratise workplace decision-making.
In 2025, we will be exploring ways to put this in practice in MONDRAGON’s cooperatives to learn how the principles behind citizens’ assemblies – sortition (randomly selecting decision makers), deliberation, and rotation – can be applied in the context of cooperative decision making and governance. The goals are to help lead to a more engaged workforce and membership, as well as to result in better, more informed, and legitimate decisions in times of complexity.
Furthermore, we will test how new technologies can enrich deliberation processes and facilitate new approaches to decision making in cooperatives. We intend to learn from these practical experimentations to eventually extend the application to other cooperatives in MONDRAGON, and inspire other cooperatives – as well as businesses and membership-based organisations more broadly – to experiment in similar ways across the world.
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