A
Assembly Office
Coordinates schedules, agendas, delegate participation, meeting logistics, and procedural standards.
Organization
Designed around trust, neutrality, and process.
Congress Makers uses a layered organizational model to keep convening, facilitation, research, citizen participation, and reporting clearly separated.
B
Public Engagement Unit
Supports citizen submissions, listening sessions, accessible participation formats, and community outreach.
C
Policy Research Desk
Organizes evidence, issue briefs, background material, and source transparency for informed discussion.
D
Moderation Council
Applies neutral facilitation rules, speaking-time balance, conflict-of-interest safeguards, and meeting discipline.
E
Documentation Team
Produces concise minutes, issue summaries, position maps, and public-facing records of non-confidential proceedings.
F
Ethics & Transparency
Maintains disclosure standards, participation rules, correction procedures, and transparency safeguards.
Governance principle
Facilitate the process. Do not predetermine the outcome.
Our organizational structure is intentionally process-centered. Conveners and moderators should not use their role to privilege a political party, candidate, faction, or commercial sponsor.
Participation Standards
- Clear mandateEvery meeting begins with a defined policy question and scope.
- Material viewpoint diversityRelevant competing perspectives should be represented where feasible.
- Disclosed rulesParticipants know how speaking, evidence, and preference signals are handled.
- Documented correctionsMaterial factual corrections are appended to the public record when appropriate.