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Building Citizen-based Geographic Stuctures for Citizen Empowerment Over Time

Why Is This Idea Important?: Building citizen empowerment is much more than mere programs. Such efforts must fundamentally include a way to build information-processing that can build trust and power over time. Such efforts must be geographically grounded so adjacent communities can learn from each other, and coincidently, not be geographically issolated. In fact, it is the continued issolation of people in community, and the "volunteer" leadership patterns that continues to ensure that fewer and fewer citizens participage in community democracy. A coordinated structure is necessary to begin to change this on-going dynamic.

Building Citizen-based Geographic Stuctures for Citizen Empowerment Over Time

See http://www.slideshare.net/drichardson78737/sector-planning-and-the-comprehensive-plan-b-9

In order to build a comprehensive approach to citizen-based communications, you have to build a process and structure for that dialogue that can build trust, and therefore citizen-based power, over time. Such rationals were promoted as part of President Johnson's War on Poverty in the 1960s. Such a federal requirement in local program administration will do more to build community empowerment than the actual programs themselves. The above-referenced Power Point focuses on a municipal planning effort in Austin, Texas, that was not implemented. However, a similar structure has been implemented in the same locality with Austin Community College, of which I am a member of the Board of Trustees.

Submitted by tim mahoney 2 years ago

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