Yet in practice, the government's new media operation appears to be as top-down as its old media one was.
This is known as top-down processing.
It has emerged as much bottom-up from laity as top-down from clergy members.
Mr. Bush regards mandatory emissions caps as "top-down" regulatory management and therefore unacceptable.
Issues and solutions should therefore be able to rise bottom-up as well as top-down.
One outsider who deals often with Mr Idei describes his approach to change as "top-down; outside-in".
But no, for a variety of reasons, the initiative fizzled, as top-down initiatives tend to do in the NHS.
Huge upheavals, such as China's cultural revolution, are dismissed in a page, as top-down not bottom-up.
As well as top-down data, the service enables individuals on the ground to share their own information.
This is known as "top-down processing," since the prefrontal cortex (the "top" of the brain) is directly modulating the activity of other areas.
Once upon a time, the military was as top-down, self-sufficient, and self-contained an organization as you could imagine.
