Consider the Orkney and Shetland islanders, significant numbers of whom are as hostile to Holyrood's remote-governance as we mainlanders are to Westminster's.
Many Egyptians, I soon learned, had a willed desire to live with contradiction, a stance encouraged by a docile and compromised press given liberty only to fulminate on matters remote from the governance of its own country by the president of two decades, Hosni Mubarak.
Health centre characteristics included length of participation in ABCD CQI, regularity of client attendance, size of service population, governance (community-controlled or government operated) and location based on the Australian Standard Geographical Classification (AGSC) system (very remote, remote or non-remote).
The Shinnecocks have a long, proud history of self- governance, and advantages that poorer, more remote tribes can only dream of: geography, bargaining power and the support of state officials including Gov. David Paterson, who endorsed their quest for recognition.
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"Forests are fundamentally hard to protect – they are in remote frontiers or in countries with weak governance," said Liz Goldman, a Research Associate at GFW.
Finally, the Operational governance layer supports execution of the governance processes by enabling remote invocation of governance capabilities and mapping of API calls on underlying devices via governance agents.
Rebels of the nomadic Tuareg people have declared the independence of the remote northern region of Azawad, citing 50 years of bad governance and UN articles on the rights of native people.
Remote, sparsely populated jurisdictions got a thumb on the scales of governance.
But increasingly, the most effective practices come from remote corners of the earth, where resources as well as legal frameworks, transparent governance, and democratic values may be scarce.
