Communication Day brings together municipalities’ communication professionals for a day of new knowledge and trends, experience sharing, etc. with a focus on what communicators are most concerned about. Everything from classic communication disciplines to more innovative and forward-thinking methods of communication will be discussed. Questions about how to deal with digital development and the rise of artificial intelligence, for example, are on the agenda this year.
A series of sessions, workshops and presentations will make up the day’s program, and among the speakers is Zakia Elvang from We Do Democracy, who on Friday d. November 3rd will focus on deliberation and citizen assemblies as tools to address the democratic crisis facing our society. The central questions of how we as citizens engage in meaningful collective communities in a time when democracy is challenged will be at the heart of the presentation. Zakia gives his professional opinion on how and why a new form of communication and citizen involvement can be a big step in the right direction in a political and social climate where the distance between system and citizen is growing. She points out that we as a society need to strengthen and develop collective communities in a way that creates cohesion. A need that can be met through citizen gatherings and deliberative citizen involvement in its other forms.
The presentation will go on to discuss how we can think outside the box and change the way we engage in society’s communities as a system and as citizens. Democracy is in fundamental need of renewal if we are to tackle the climate crisis, the rural-urban divide and the general sense of alienation of citizens in political decision-making. Here, the international deliberation wave and Danish initiatives with citizen gatherings and citizen things are useful tools that can help provide solutions to the complex problems we face as a society.
There are still places available for the Communication Day! Read much more about the event and how to register
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