The World Wide Views projects were started in 2009 by the Danish Board of Technology Foundation to involve citizens in global environmental policy making through deliberation and voting.
As cross-border environmental challenges have grown in scale, the nations of the world have turned to international organisations in search of a common platform in which to address these problems.
With its extensive experience in involving citizens in citizen deliberation on a broad range of issues, the Danish Board of Technology Foundation (DBT) has started the World Wide Views projects, organising partner organisations from all over the world in a World Wide Views Alliance with the main purpose of involving citizens in global environmental policy making through deliberation and voting.
The aim is to provide ordinary citizens of the world with a direct link to political decision makers, while providing the decision makers with an informed insight into the needs and views of the citizens they are representing, as well as creating public awareness of environmental hazards and challenges.
Each session of the meeting starts by a short introduction movie, outlining the theme’s main problems, again as presented in the information material, followed by a discussion facilitated by a neutral table facilitator (ideally a politician) in which the citizens can share their views and thoughts on the theme, and learn by and with each other.