Sentence examples for citizen control from inspiring English sources

Citizen control of the agenda.

Governments want to engage in mass surveillance and have total citizen control.

Tech tycoon Kim Dotcom has told the Guardian that "governments want to engage in mass surveillance and have total citizen control", before a crowd fundraising event for the Mana Internet party, the political party he founded to contest New Zealand's September 20 elections.

Mr Neumann is in good company when he declares that ordinary folk back in his Wisconsin district have sounder instincts on government than the pols in Washington.Over the years, this populism has bred constitutional devices designed to increase citizen control over elected representatives.

She distinguished eight steps within this continuum in the authority community relation (i.e. on the participation ladder): manipulation, therapy, informing, consultation, placation, partnership, delegated power, and citizen control (Arnstein, 1969, after Cornwall, 2011).

Last year New York Times reporter Paul Moyer also warned that government Facebook channels were being used to spread anti-Rohingya propaganda — implying the platform has also been appropriated as a citizen control tool by the state seeding its own propaganda.

It asks whether success is down to hard work or forces beyond citizens' control.

Since that conversation in 2011, Colell and her friend, who are in their mid-20s, have built a movement aimed at putting the city grid under citizens' control when the system goes on sale next year.

This article examines the recent multiplicity of challenges that affect citizens' control and use of information.

Drafted by California State Senator Joe Simitian, the bill also would have given citizens control over who accessed the personal stored data.

Citizens' control over spending is not direct, of course, but in most Western countries public attitudes influence how well or how poorly appropriators fund science.