The Hong Kong government generally respects the human rights of its citizens, although core issues remain.
The Partnership is dedicated to making governments everywhere more "open, accountable and responsive to citizens". A core part of that effort is promoting open data -- government data published online, in easy-to-use formats, that anyone can analyze, use and republish.
If the first Gene Takahashi seems in many ways a very ordinary man, the prototype of the good American citizen, and core of the community, then the second one, the Gene Takahashi who is a genuine war hero, is among his Westport neighbors a kind of invisible man, whose existence few of them know about.
But while there is significant citizen engagement in many areas, public services are not, on the whole, sufficiently orientated to include citizens at their core.
Major changes in cities happen over a timescale much longer than that of the typical political administration, and citizens are the core authors who can guarantee these changes.
"Going forward, the commission must consider in the task force examining the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy how best to ensure that citizens can reach core emergency-communication services in a crisis.
If Russia did supply the missile that downed MH17, its president bears responsibility for an attack that, though almost certainly directed at the wrong target, killed almost two hundred citizens of a core member of NATO, along with nearly a hundred others.
The European commission has at least paid lip-service to the important role ordinary people have to play in energy production, as they set out their plan for an EU energy system "with citizens at its core" who "participate actively in the market".
Corbyn and a few others aside, it's all too apparent that an assertive, progressive message that puts average citizens at its core and aspires to protect the most vulnerable is now all but absent from the centre stage of British politics.
I was a university student in the late '60s, early '70s when ordinary citizens constituted the core of the anti-war movement and the civil rights movement.
