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And so the citizen activists in Boulder who have been pushing this now literally have to fight the power in order to fight for power.
I logged on to a citizen journalism platform called iReport, and I recorded a video talking about what the scene was like in Bangalore.
As empowered as I felt with the new liberty that this citizen journalism channel gave me, I found myself in an unfamiliar situation.
You see, as a writer, I approached this issue as an observer, as an Indian, I felt embarrassment and disbelief, and as an activist, I looked at it as a defender of rights, but as a citizen journalist, I suddenly felt very vulnerable.
You see, if there's anything that I've learned as an active citizen journalist over the past few years, it is our dire lack as a society to actively find avenues where our voices can be heard.
They're willing to open up a new space for citizen engagement and hopefully they'll be willing to listen as well.
Increasingly, I feel like a global citizen.
A corporate investment in human rights is a capital gain on your businesses, and whether you're a business, an NGO, or a private citizen, rule of law benefits all of us.
Civil society diplomats do three things: They voice the concerns of the people, are not pinned down by national interests, and influence change through citizen networks, not only state ones.
It became almost like a public service to the citizen, to the protester, to the activist, because they had a very simple and efficient and peaceful tool to confront both police and media authority.
I said that livestream could turn the web into a colossal TV network, but I believe it does something else, because after watching people using it, not only to cover things but to express, to organize themselves politically, I believe livestream can turn cyberspace into a global political arena where everyone might have a voice, a proper voice, because livestream takes the monopoly of the broadcast political discourse, of the verbal aspect of the political dialogue out of the mouths of just politicians and political pundits alone, and it empowers the citizen through this direct and non-mediated power of exchanging experiences and dialogue, empowers them to question and to influence authorities in ways in which we are about to see.
And I believe it does something else that might be even more important, that the simplicity of the technology can merge objectivity and subjectivity in a very political way, as I see it, because it really helps the audience, the citizen, to see the world through somebody else's eye, so it helps the citizen to put him- or herself in other people's place.
There's enough for every Chinese citizen to power two homes in a single year from hydropower alone.
In Turkey, I watched four young college students organize a countrywide citizen journalism network called 140Journos that became the central hub for uncensored news in the country.
In Turkey, 140Journos are holding hack-a-thons so that they support communities as well as citizen journalism.
For five years, this spot was being ticketed, and it was confusing, and then a citizen found something, they told the city, and within a few weeks the problem was fixed.
A newly minted American citizen, he had come to believe that Stroman was the product of a hurting America that couldn't just be lethally injected away.
Every citizen wears the badge of the Great Leader at all times.
The average US citizen emits about 17.5 metric tons.
She isn't a citizen of the world, but a citizen of worlds.
How can I, as a private citizen, use the report card to create pressure for action?
And I have no trouble imagining that after spending weeks or even months as a second-grade citizen, living on the streets or in a horrible makeshift camp with a stupid, racist name like "The Jungle," most of us would be willing to do just about anything.
Fast forward, I am an adult now, and I teach citizen science and invention at the Hong Kong Harbour School.
And meanwhile SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, is now releasing its data to the public so that millions of citizen scientists, maybe including you, can bring the power of the crowd to join the search.
A senior citizen texting and blogging.
More recently, the Internet has multiplied the amount of information and viewpoints, with social media, blogs, and online video turning every citizen into a potential reporter.
Whereas Athenian democracy was focusing on the masterless citizen and empowering the working poor, our liberal democracies are founded on the Magna Carta tradition, which was, after all, a charter for masters.
Amy was there as the TED Prize Director; me, an entrepreneur from the Netherlands and concerned citizen, love to dive, passion for the oceans.
So that's why I began by saying, be optimistic in what you do, but be an active citizen.
Now, let's be clear, they didn't make that outperformance by giving away money to seem like a nice corporate citizen.
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