In 2020, the Bogotá City Council, through DEMOLAB, its public innovation lab, launched the Itinerant Citizens’ Assembly, a deliberative body which deliberates at different times with different groups of citizens selected at random. The Assembly is permanent, but its members rotate.
The Assembly has different “Chapters.” Each Chapter “passes the torch” to the next. While each chapter may contain a small number of citizens, thousands may be part of the Assembly in the long run. The model seeks to make improvements on three fronts: institutionalization, inclusion, and the learning process.