| Just the Facts | | What | Stick to the Subject is an in-person Discussion Society combined with an online Regional Knowledge Base. Members discuss public policy subjects in groups of six to twelve people meeting at public locations. | | Who | People living in the Rogue Valley join through open enrollment, creating a demos - a one-person, one-vote democratic body. | | How | Society members agree on a slate of public policy subjects, get together face-to-face in small groups to discuss them, and then vote on the subjects anonymously using ranked voting. | | Where | Society members meet wherever they choose within a network of participating public locations, such as community centers, restaurants, schools, social halls, and taverns. | | When | Society members attend one Conversation Sit-down/After Party per policy subject at the location, day, and time of their choosing. | | Stick to the Subject.
American Deliberative Democracy | | Social Art | | Discussion Society members self-study public policy subjects,meet face-to-face in Conversation Sit-downs to discuss them and then stay on to socialize at After Parties. They vote on the subjects anonymously using ranked voting. | | combining social art with technical craft to bring deliberative democracy to the public policy debate | | | Technical Craft | | The Knowledge Base collects and stores information on the public policy subjects, provides an online logistical platform for the Stick Network, and reports the votes of the Society members. | |  | | Conversation Sit-Downs | | Conversation Sit-downs are moderated, 55 minute face-to-face round table discussions of public policy subjects. | | | After Party | | The purpose of the After Party is purely social. | |  | | | Society | | Bring out your dead: Would the Rogue Valley be able to deal with a high mortality outbreak of an infectious disease? | Pick and Choose: Should immigration weigh skills or assets higher than family? | Who Dies? What laws will govern auto-driven vehicles in accidents when making qualitative decisions on human life? | | Culture | | The New Pariahs: Has the DUI stigma unfairly created a shunned group? | Copy and paste Grandma: Should technology to transfer human consciousness be allowed? | Dancing with A.I. and Robotics: How will people fare in a post-human social order? | | Economy | | Wildfires and logging: Would increased logging reduce wildfires without causing environmental harm? | The Facts of Life: How should we understand economic and quality of life indicators? | Money for nothing: How will people make a living in a jobless future? | | State | | Don't fence me in: What reforms are needed in the federal land management system? | Cutting out the middleman: Does the Electoral College need reform? | Trust, but verify: Can there be gun control without gun laws? | | | The Stick Network | | a network of Conversation Sit-downs/After Parties held at public locations throughout the Rogue Valley | |  |  | | Knowledge Base | | a browsable and searchable online relational database that stores information on subjects related to the Society, Economy, Culture, and State of the Rogue Valley. | | | |