Karim Medhat Ennarah, who researches criminal justice matters for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, said the problem of police abuse had worsened, as officers anxious to reassert their authority confronted a newly empowered citizenry.
Even with the best of intentions these old guards find it hard to absorb the challenge presented by a newly empowered citizenry, backed by a feisty press and the streetwise zeal of bold young revolutionaries.These contrasts are starkest in Egypt.
In essence, it matters not whether it is reef degradation, over-fishing, urbanization, youth unemployment, global financial crises, or natural disasters – the need for well functioning institutions, an empowered citizenry and a resilient adaptable economy is the same.
Bemis understands the Blue Republican case that statism and progressivism have failed to deliver a fair society and economy or a free and empowered citizenry.
To illustrate -- on July 5, 2010, at a meeting with civil society leaders in Yerevan, Armenia, Clinton declared: "Democracy requires not just elections, but open dialogue, a free exchange of ideas, government transparency and accountability, and above all, an empowered citizenry, who constantly work together to make their country fairer, juster, healthier, and freer".
(KI 4) The key informants acknowledged that mobilizing new resources for scaling up will be important, but also that research is needed on improving the way in which finances are tracked: "This could involve individual citizens or patients—if you have a good, empowered citizenry, they can hold institutions to account, through a consumer process or a democratic process.
Stringer's final thought sounded like an implicit acknowledgment: "Our newly empowered digital citizenry all over the globe have to grapple with the same sticky questions — such as who owns what, and who has the right to share content.
And while we have Twitter and Facebook to thank for the global reach of the Arab Spring, #EricGarner, and the Veronica Mars film project crowdfund, this is not a return to evolutionary Tower-building by an empowered world citizenry.
I want to empower people.
The educational model proposed proved to be useful in empowering the citizenry to confront the development of unsustainable projects.
