Here is a tailored invitation for Hélène Landemore, positioned around open democracy, deliberation, collective intelligence, and redesigning democratic participation for a systems-changing era.
Dear Hélène,
I hope this finds you well.
I am writing to invite you to participate in MOBILIZED: CONVERGENCE, a new global media-and-action experience from Mobilized News designed to bring together the people, ideas, tools, and public-interest solutions needed to redesign systems for life.
The purpose of CONVERGENCE is simple but urgent:
How do we move from systems that extract, divide, confuse, and control — to systems that inform, connect, restore, and empower?
Your work on open democracy, deliberation, democratic innovation, representation, participation, and collective intelligence speaks directly to one of the central questions of this initiative:
How can democracy evolve from a system people periodically vote in, into a living process people continuously help shape?
CONVERGENCE is not being designed as a traditional conference or vendor expo. It is being created as a living media commons and working assembly: part public-interest technology forum, part solutions showcase, part live newsroom, part collaboration network, and part global action lab.
Our operating framework is:
Signals → Stories → Solutions → Events → Collaboration → Action
We would be honored to invite you to participate as a Keynote Catalyst, featured conversation guest, systems lab host, or strategic advisor for one of the central themes of the event:
Open Democracy, Deliberation and Collective Intelligence
Some of the questions we hope to explore include:
- What does open democracy mean in practice?
- How can democratic systems become more participatory, deliberative, and intelligent?
- What are the limits of representative democracy as currently practiced?
- How can citizens’ assemblies, deliberative processes, and participatory institutions help rebuild trust?
- How can digital tools support thoughtful participation rather than amplify reaction and polarization?
- How do we design democratic systems that include ordinary people as capable contributors, not passive spectators?
- What would it mean to treat democracy as a shared learning system?
Your perspective would help frame one of the defining questions of CONVERGENCE:
How do we create democratic systems that are open enough to include more people, structured enough to deliberate well, and capable enough to respond to complex shared challenges?
We are inviting a founding circle of leaders across digital sovereignty, open-source infrastructure, digital democracy, ethical AI, public digital goods, cybersecurity, regenerative economics, independent media, public health, education, and community resilience.
The goal is not only to host conversations, but to produce practical outcomes, including:
- An Open Democracy Action Guide
- A Deliberation and Civic Participation Toolkit
- A Collective Intelligence for Communities Roadmap
- A Solutions Map of democratic innovation tools and models
- Live and recorded interviews for global distribution
- Replication pathways for cities, public agencies, schools, civic groups, media organizations, nonprofits, and communities seeking to deepen participation and rebuild public trust
Mobilized News was founded on the belief that a well-informed public is the most powerful and valuable natural resource of all. With CONVERGENCE, we are creating a platform where knowledge does not remain isolated, but becomes shared capability.
We would be grateful to explore your participation in one or more of the following ways:
- Opening keynote or featured conversation
- Systems lab on open democracy and deliberative participation
- Interview for Mobilized News
- Strategic advisory conversation
- Contributor to the Open Democracy Action Guide
- Partner introduction to aligned democracy, deliberation, civic innovation, public trust, and collective intelligence networks
We believe your voice would be essential in helping participants understand that democracy is not only a matter of institutions or elections. It is a question of how societies listen, learn, deliberate, decide, and act together.
Thank you for considering this invitation. We would be honored to speak with you or your team and explore how MOBILIZED: CONVERGENCE can amplify and support the work you are already helping lead.
With appreciation and respect,
Steven Jay
Co-Founder and Executive Producer
Mobilized News
MobilizedNews.com
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