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And doing so will only test the faith of our citizens, of our peoples, even more in the democratic process.

Democracy could not work without the citizens deliberating, debating, taking on public responsibilities for public affairs.

Average citizens often were chosen for citizen juries to decide on critical matters of the day.

Actually they were an education for participation, for the potential, for growing the potential of our citizens.

So our politicians are limited to local politics, while our citizens, even though they see a great potential, are prey to forces beyond their control.

Let's see if we can't design a European agora, not simply for products and services, but for our citizens, where they can work together, deliberate, learn from each other, exchange between art and cultures, where they can come up with creative solutions.

Let's imagine that European citizens actually have the power to vote directly for a European president, or citizen juries chosen by lottery which can deliberate on critical and controversial issues, a European-wide referendum where our citizens, as the lawmakers, vote on future treaties.

And here's an idea: Why not have the first truly European citizens by giving our immigrants, not Greek or German or Swedish citizenship, but a European citizenship?

And the paradox is that, because we have this blame game, we have less the potential to convince our citizens that we should work together, while now is the time when we really need to bring our powers together.

It is actually giving more power to the citizens of Europe, that is, really making Europe a project of the people.

Now you might be thinking that citizens of high-tech nations would have the advantage in any robotic war, that citizens of those nations would be less vulnerable, particularly against developing nations.

I think citizens of high-tech societies are more vulnerable to robotic weapons, and the reason can be summed up in one word: data.

We sent a petition to the Shura Council in favor of lifting the ban on Saudi women, and there were, like, 3,500 citizens who believed in that and they signed that petition.

And we were able to grow this software footprint, and a few years later it became very useful software, and we were quite humbled when it was used in Haiti where citizens could indicate where they are and what their needs were, and also to deal with the fallout from the nuclear crisis and the tsunami in Japan.

You see, shell companies, they're central to the secret deals which may benefit wealthy elites rather than ordinary citizens.

But in some countries, citizens and journalists who are trying to expose stories like this have been harassed and arrested and some have even risked their lives to do so.

In a globalized world, corruption is a truly globalized business, and one that needs global solutions, supported and pushed by us all, as global citizens, right here.

Together, we envisage and enact a society that understands and respects voice hearing, supports the needs of individuals who hear voices, and which values them as full citizens.

Those are the public spaces where we announce ourselves as citizens, as participants, as people with the right to write our own narratives.

So to come back to the dilemma, if the dilemma is we have old-fashioned political nation-states unable to govern the world, respond to the global challenges that we face like climate change, then maybe it's time for mayors to rule the world, for mayors and the citizens and the peoples they represent to engage in global governance.

And so the question is, how can we create a world in which mayors and the citizens they represent play a more prominent role?

Mayors are considering that idea of how you can actually constitute a global parliament of mayors, and I love that idea, because a parliament of mayors is a parliament of citizens and a parliament of citizens is a parliament of us, of you and of me.

If ever there were citizens without borders, I think it's the citizens of TED who show the promise to be those citizens without borders.

Thank you so much, my fellow citizens.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but what it does require is that citizens share in a common life.

I mean, we're all good citizens of social media, aren't we, where the currency is envy?

The citizens didn't only experience incessant gunfire but also explosions and burning trucks used as barricades across the city, so truly like a battlefield.

If you decided to spend 30 minutes trying to figure out what's going on with drug violence in Mexico by, say, just researching online, the first thing you would find out is that while the laws state that all Mexican citizens are equal, there are some that are more and there are some that are much less equal than others, because you will quickly find out that in the past six years anywhere between 60 and 100,000 people have lost their lives in drug-related violence.

However, while it's easier to think of us, the citizens, the police, the army, as the good guys, and them, the narcos, the carteles, as the bad guys, if you think about it, the latter are only providing a service to the former.

Now, they kill a lot of people too, but when they kill them, they provide very careful narratives and descriptions for why they did them, through newspaper insertions, YouTube videos, and billboards that explain that the people who were killed were killed because they represented a threat not to us, as an organization, of course, but to you, as citizens.

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