A citizen-initiated summit held on 11 November 2011 in Brussels during Belgium's long government formation, bringing together about a thousand citizens to deliberate; it later inspired Belgian permanent citizen bodies.
Launched by 25 citizens with no political office and a manifesto published on 11 June 2011, the G1000 had three phases: an online survey of priorities, a one-day summit at Tour & Taxis with participants seated at tables of ten, and a smaller panel to refine proposals. Its organisers stressed that results would be non-binding and that they sought no formal mandate.
The summit took place on 11 November 2011. The G1000 later became a Belgian platform for democratic innovation and designed the Ostbelgien model adopted in 2019.
Non-binding by design, the project had no formal channel into government formation. The sources read do not document formal adoption of its 2011–2012 recommendations, but it seeded later institutional bodies.
The G1000 arose during Belgium's government formation after the 13 June 2010 election, which ended with a government sworn in on 6 December 2011 after 541 days. Its manifesto framed the summit as citizens deliberating where politicians had not found a solution.[1][2]
The design had three phases: an online survey of priorities that gathered over 5,000 suggestions, a summit on 11 November 2011 at Tour & Taxis with about a thousand people in groups of ten, and a smaller citizens' panel. The organisers said results were deliberately non-binding.[1][2]
G1000 continued as a Belgian platform for democratic innovation and, per its own account and the Ostbelgien parliament's, helped design the 2019 Ostbelgien permanent citizens' dialogue together with the Foundation for Future Generations.[1][2]