Int'l conference 'Deliberative Democracy in Asia' taking place in Ulaanbaatar
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The international conference themed “Deliberative Democracy in Asia” is taking place at the Library of National University of Mongolia on October 11-12.
The
conference is organized by the National University of Mongolia in collaboration
with the Government of Mongolia (the Cabinet Secretariat).
The two-day
conference brought together more than 120 scholars, researchers, officials
and guest speakers from Estonia, Japan, South Korea,
People’s Republic of China., the United States and Australia.
Three general sessions are scheduled ‘Quality
of Democracy’, ‘Deliberative Democracy in Asia’, ‘Applying Deliberative
Democracy in developing local budget’. In addition discussions and sub session ‘Deliberative
Democracy and Information and Communication Technology’are taking place.
During the conference, a total of 15 presentations are being
delivered. Director of Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy Mr. James S. Fishkin made presentation on deliberative
polling and international practices.