The interest and capability of citizens to use and benefit from such online platforms that facilitate urban planning has grown in recent times, which makes it important to study the nature of these platforms and civic engagement that is facilitated through them.
Indeed, social accountability is a form of citizen engagement defined as the 'extent and capability of citizens to hold politicians, policy makers and providers accountable and make them responsive to their needs.' This study explores existing social accountability mechanisms through which women's concerns are expressed and responded to by health providers in local settings.
Attention for opportunities and capabilities of citizens is growing.
Nordenfelt's reasoning when combined with Nussbaum's argument that the ten basic capabilities of citizens form the core of basic political principles, catapults health of citizens to the forefront of the social agenda.
Relying solely on a substance-by-substance, categorical, trial and error approach (i.e., the incremental approach) is essentially a pessimistic view about the capabilities of citizens, researchers, policymakers, and nations to understand and ultimately make homes, buildings, and communities safe and viable.
The other route would have been to concentrate action on raising the capability of the citizen to deal with his or her problems, either real in the present or feared for the future.
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate discusses the capability and liberty of citizens to criticize their government.
Even so, you wonder whether Brecht's more hard-hitting version of the same story, the Threepenny Opera, would have been a far better idea, both much more pointed about the parallels between then and now and entirely within the capabilities of Cardboard Citizens, Britain's only homeless people's professional theatre company.
But that criticism is not aimed at the capabilities of fellow citizens, but at their willfully low levels of civic and political literacy.
In a conversation with him in June 1993, a few days before we both were to be awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Bar Ilan University, I presented my view that Israel, at peace with its neighbors and reflecting the vast capabilities of its citizens, could be a beacon for young American Jews looking for a connection with their people.
They favour offensive military capability at the expense of citizens in serious need of relief from austerity's ideological lash.
