It is an almost incorruptible digital ledger that can be used to record practically anything that can be digitized: birth and death certificates, marriage licenses, deeds and titles of ownership, educational degrees, medical records, contracts, and votes.
Facilities were selected to cover a range of levels of care (hospital, health centre, dispensary), types of ownership and degrees of accessibility to the district headquarters.
The basic assumption underpinning this analysis was that a sense of project ownership (involving degrees of excitement and personal engagement) should translate into the activity of talking to and interacting with others.
So regardless of size, the nature of label ownership or the degree of DIY, distribution was considered the defining criterion for "independence".
With its substantial investments of time, money and energy, home ownership assumes some degree of longevity in a certain place and at a certain station in life, whereas latter-day corporate capitalism demands of its workers the exact opposite — flexibility, mobility, liquidity, a knack for the fast downsize.
The idea has some merit, but does conflate the ownership of a degree with a certain tier of competence.
Five attributes are included in the experiment: (i) type of landscape, (ii) type of ownership, (iii) the degree of local participation in the planning process, (iv) the choice to transfer revenue to the society in a pre-specified way, and (v) a monetary cost in terms of an additional electricity certificate fee.
How do you ensure family harmony when different members have different levels of ownership and different degrees of control?
Furthermore, livestock is closely linked to the social and cultural lives of several million resource-poor farmers for whom animal ownership ensures varying degrees of sustainable farming and economic stability.
