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If governments need to know more about citizens, then citizens must know more about government.
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Read more about Citizen Schools and their missions at www.citizenschools.org.org
Specifically, he said there's "an increasing imbalance of power" where public officials know more and more about private citizens, while those citizens know less and less about the officials: "We can't even see their tax returns".
What there is, is a conflict between the inherent desire of bureaucracy to collect and use ever more information about citizens, and the fundamental rule of a free society – that officials cannot just make up powers to suit themselves.
As governments clamor to gobble up more data about citizens, they're simultaneously restricting access to decision-making processes that affect us all.
So for him it's more about "smart citizens", than smart cities.
The tools have changed, the claimed motivations have changed - from cold war to war on terror - but the practice remains the same; governments seeking to discover more and more about their citizens.
It's also the source of great contention, since people seem to talk more about the citizens shot during its festivities than the Caribbean culture it celebrates. .
Back East, though, the Manhattan media elites are a little more skeptical about citizen media and a little more bullish about the importance of editorial curation.
We hear more and more about the "citizen journalist" with international news channels leading stories using footage captured by the public, so we're also welcoming films made on a mobile phone.
Cable 10MEXICO83, for example, states that "the GOM's (Government of Mexico's) inability to halt the escalating numbers of narco-related homicides in places like Ciudad Juarez and elsewhere... has become one of Calderon's principal political liabilities as the general public has grown more concerned about citizen security".
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