The blog is another example of citizens harnessing social media to cope with a disaster, but this one has an advantage: it is written by and for a moneyed and well-connected clientele.
Viewed in this light, military service seemed like an avenue toward self-actualization, a career in which citizens could harness new skills and jet to exotic locales, all on the government's dime.
► "Six teams of researchers each received $80,000 [Monday] for reaching the final stage of a competition to design tools to help scientists and citizens worldwide harness and process the increasingly vast quantities of biomedical data," Ben Panko wrote that day.
Six teams of researchers each received $80,000 today for reaching the final stage of a competition to design tools to help scientists and citizens worldwide harness and process the increasingly vast quantities of biomedical data.
Six teams of researchers each received $80,000 this week for reaching the final stage of a competition to help scientists and citizens worldwide harness and process increasingly vast quantities of biomedical data.
In particular, there are four key areas in the partnership — members need to "promote transparency, fight corruption, empower citizens, and harness the power of new technologies to make government more effective and accountable".
Manufacturing policy solutions tend to unite our otherwise divided citizens, so harnessing their energy will be critical.
Digital Sunlight envisions a platform for collaborative journalism, which connects individual journalists, newsrooms, and citizens, and harnesses the web as a platform for enabling and distributing public service journalism.
But I still believe in the power of citizen action harnessed to our founding ideas to improve American life and even to transform some American hearts.
How about a plan to get the broadband revolution rolled out to every American citizen by harnessing market forces instead of government subsidies?
Governments are taking steps to harness citizen-led innovations.
