As a result our communities decide on simple projects which are based on obsolete information and which focus on only part of the problem. Establish a strategy to emphasize the idea of future trends in the thinking and operations of the community. There is a need to understand that citizens will feel ownership of decisions made in their community only when those interested have had an opportunity to help identify key issues and help develop and vote on strategies to resolve the issue. This can be done a number of ways although surveying using a network of citizen leaders to distribute the packets probably most effectively balances the need for accurate information with the need for adequate citizen discussion and involvement. In the foreseeable future, electronic means will be used to have a consensus table of priority issues identified.
Wireless technology is used to allow all participants the opportunity to vote for the top factors.
The second day is used to talk about key strategic issues to be used as a format for building two or more alternative action plans. The same format and technology is used to set priorities for the strategic issues. Additional citizens are added who have shown interest and who have been brought up to speed in a specific make-up training session. They are then integrated into existing groups unless new groups of twenty are needed. The intent of Consensus Democracy is to reformulate how local democracy operates in the 21st Century.