If the Smart City is deemed the solution to twenty-first century urbanisation, then it masks an abyss of hidden vulnerabilities for citizens. The blind belief that technology makes things better fails to address key questions around increasing urbanisation, or how it affects citizens and communities. With intense forms of surveillance purporting to offer better services […]
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Shifting patterns of political participation could be amplifying inequalities that hurt democracy, finds Russell Dalton’s ‘The Participation Gap’.
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Young people in Oldham, Greater Manchester, identify top areas of focus for mental health care in the pilot, MH:2K project.
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Public deliberation in waste management should address technological and social contexts in decision-making, finds a recent review in the UK.
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Public deliberation is vital to negotiating ethical challenges in recent developments in biomedical technologies and health care in the US.
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Fourth-grade students demonstrate a ‘healthy skepticism for authority’ in simulations of participatory deliberations find researchers at Texas University.
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Nirmala Dorasamy illustrates how citizen participation and inclusive representation provides local governments crucial feedback to improve service delivery.
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Consumer engagement is still developing in medical research. However, a new framework at South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute aligns community and research priorities, a recent article finds.
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Growing uses of deliberation as a mode of governance calls for ways to observe its success. ‘Deliberative technology’ offers a lens to ensure this process.
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Local opposition to the re-siting of the Poverello Center homeless shelter in Missoula, Montana, prompted a city-wide community deliberation mediated by the Missoula chapter of the National Coalition Building Institute.
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Kei Nishiyama challenges the idea of children as passive citizens-in-the-making and calls for their recognition as vital agents of democracy.
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Mounting pressure on water resources demands a collaborative, integrated approach to water management in Ireland and the UK, report urges.
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