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2012

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2011

Westminster World Heritage Site and Parliament Square a national disgrace, Hansard Society, October 25 [1] New vision putting citizen and visitor at its heart needed. place, topic


High Speed 2 consultation "a train wreck", say CPRE, 28 February [2]

Councils and hyperlocal ‘bloggers’: It’s the council system which needs changing, not how people are allowed to cover them, David Higgerson, February 23 [3]


Eric Pickles: Citizen journalists and bloggers should be let in to public council meetings, 23 February [4]


"If nothing else the transparency that the social web embodies and that government says it wants to deliver with #opendata means that we will no longer be able to hide our policy programmes in big black boxes that we only open up on launch day" Catherine Howe, January 23 [5]


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Action on climate change must first and foremost involve citizens and communities, all communities and all citizens within them who wish to be involved. It must not be something done to citizens and communities, but done with them. It needs to empower citizens to take a more active role. Action on climate change should not be viewed as something for governments, business and formal or selected civil society groupings alone. As in the Open Declaration on European Public Services (1) action on climate change should be transparent, participative and empowering. As Churchill said "If we are together nothing is impossible." and Obama "Yes we can", but that 'we' must be inclusive. Action on climate change is too challenging to be left just to the men in suits. Every community should have an open, inclusive, transparent, participative and properly influential forum for the tranisiton to a low carbon future.

(1) http://eups20.wordpress.com/the-open-declaration/

Philralph @sca21 17:17, November 19, 2009 (UTC)


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Very much agree with Andrew (post 11) on the importance of community involvement. Only with full, genuine and properly respectful community involvement do we have any realistic chance of adequate response to climate change and the need for a low carbon future. The technology exists to enable a richer diversity of participation. However well intentioned, you guys who are paid to work on this sort of stuff can't do it all on your own. Let us in to help you out.

Posted Philralph @sca21 13:14, September 30, 2009 (UTC)

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References

  1. ↑ hansardsociety.org.uk,
  2. ↑ cpre.org.uk, 28 February 2011
  3. ↑ davidhiggerson, February 23, 2011
  4. ↑ communities.gov.uk, 23 February 2011
  5. ↑ curiouscatherine, January 23, 2011
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