Just imagine that seeking, supporting, and reaching out to get feedback, input what a concept empowering, energizing tapping the full power and passion of the grassroots.
We would support the 'open architecture' concept of empowering local care teams to engage with their patient populations to co-develop and test their own priority AEs, but also share access to these examples as part of developing a wider person-centred community of practice within healthcare a key development stage of the AE programme that is recommended.
The OpenIDEO community responded by submitting almost 200 different inspirations, analogous examples, and concepts, from empowering mothers and janitors to starting "poo pledge" and adopt-a-drain campaigns.
Fifty-two per cent (11/21) clearly stated behavioural change as an important goal, whereas the concepts of empowering patients and addressing individual responsibility were stated in the remaining 48% (10/21).
The Bush campaign also owes an intellectual debt to Catholic neo-conservatives who have based their advocacy of empowering grass-roots groups on concepts articulated by several encyclicals.
Not only is the recognition of these concepts important as empowering for the disability community, it is also a prime example of how vulnerable groups and their advocates can contribute to disaster risk reduction, not only through their participation, but through their innovative ideas.
The latest Internet craze is "Web 2.0," a concept that involves, in part, empowering users to create their own content and then to aggregate and disseminate it, using blogs and other online software.
"By empowering children, Kenya is moving beyond the concept of Child-Friendly Schooll' and towards a 'Child-Friendly Education System' for all" said Cabinet Secretary of Education Joseph Kaimenyi.
Lou Gerstner is taking the concept to extraordinary and perhaps perilous lengths, willfully empowering the titans that most threaten IBM's basic businesses.
It's obvious that Henrik's disability is at the root of his concept, and it's inspiring how he's empowering himself through the design.
