In response to attempts to establish unsustainable projects (fracking and hydroelectric plants) in an indigenous community in the Mexican humid tropics, this study aims to empower its citizenry using knowledge about the local biophysical and social environment and its associated problems, raising awareness of how to help solve these problems, and actively working towards their solution.
Unfortunately the laws and policies that govern how public bodies should allow their citizenry to use the data that they (the citizenry) have paid for are often weak, woefully ambiguous, poorly understood, or poorly implemented.
In a speech in Portland, Ore., he explained that it could be a "birch rod in the cupboard," which the citizenry could use to punish private power companies that were gouging the public or not providing good service.
One can only hope that our citizenry would use the occasion to rise up and demand both the restoration of their democracy and the enactment of the many remedies needed to address inequality and to create a more socially balanced, humane and healthy economy.
"They don't produce anything, they redirect local resources to further their own ends, they ignore the needs of the global citizenry and they use the corporate media to distribute their aims".
The featured projects boast access to a range of transportation choices, redevelopment of existing urban areas, proximity of homes to shops and offices, preservation of existing community assets such as older buildings and natural resources, minimization of stormwater pollution and runoff, input from the local citizenry in planning, and use of green building methods.
In a representative democracy, public opinion should serve as a mechanism by which elected officials and candidates understand and address the concerns of the citizenry, rather than being used solely to determine which groups are most expendable in the American electoral process.
This paper considers how social learning processes could be used by such citizenry to aid information flows, decision making and policy implementation.
An AI-enabled world demands a data-literate citizenry that is able to read, use, interpret, and communicate about data, and participate in policy debates about matters affected by AI.
"It's like having a Stasi system," said Ms. Phillips, alluding to the vast informant network East Germany used to monitor its citizenry.
