Hailing from Lithuania Ieva spoke about her motivation to explore citizen participation and citizen assemblies to build a democracy that justifies people’s expectations.
For her, a way to improve that is to address the main elements of the crisis of democracy, which is the lack of representation. At present several groups, minorities and others are everyday people are not necessarily included in the public decision-making process in a meaningful and ongoing way. One of the ways democracies around the world solve this is through elections. “That’s how we define democracy at the moment.”