CSPO Conversations

Join this hands-on workshop to learn about the Citizens’ Track on AI and help shape a new toolkit for community assemblies on AI. The session will explore how grassroots public participation can inform AI governance, drawing on PTA work and the Public AI Voice and Engagement Case Book, followed by a short networking reception.

Drawing on transatlantic experience and two decades of participatory innovation, the discussion will explore:

• The original ambition of closing the democratic gap in global climate governance
• The evolving tension between legitimacy and speed in participatory processes
• The shift from climate as a technical problem to climate as a human welfare and development problem
• Competing governance logics: technocratic urgency versus democratic engagement
• The implications of rising populism, authoritarian tendencies, and declining trust in institutions

Ultimately, the conversation will ask whether the more urgent crisis is not only climate change, but a crisis of confidence in institutions, and whether closing democratic gaps is a necessary condition for rebuilding that confidence and enabling collective action.

The second of the two-part event will bring together Geoengineering Policy, Research, and Engagement leaders and producers to facilitate conversations with the science and technology policy research, design, and engagement communities in Washington, DC, and online.

The first of the two-part event will convene CDR Public Engagement sponsors, researchers, and practitioners to stimulate, simulate, and facilitate conversations with the science and technology policy research, design, and engagement communities in Washington, DC, and online.

This seminar discussed the challenges in a rural region, innovation opportunities that build on regional strengths; and new approaches

This seminar discussed new metrics for how funds are being used, how communities support innovation, and its impact on communities.

This CSPO Conversations program will bring together federal policymakers in science and technology policy, innovation policy, and regional development with Baltimore-based entrepreneurs, innovators, and ecosystem builders.