Data and Citizen Engagement – Disentangling the Relationship
Tiago Peixoto – As more and more players engage in participatory initiatives, there is a significant amount of citizen-generated data being collected, which is important on its own. However, in … Continue reading
Violence and the city in ‘fragile states’
Thomas Goodfellow et al – Actively increasing urban citizens’ capacity to make collective demands in ways that are non-violent – rather than denying them political agency by hoping either that … Continue reading
Local state constructions of urban citizenship
Liela Groenewald – This study explores local state constructions of citizenship for the residents of informal settlements in urban South Africa during the first decade of local democracy, with a … Continue reading
Education, equality and inclusive citizenship in Pakistan
Amna Ansari – Pakistan is currently home to three parallel yet starkly unequal systems of education – the dominantly privately owned English medium, the state run vernacular Urdu medium and … Continue reading
Citizen as Designer
Brodie Boland – By shifting the responsibility of the citizen from deciding to designing, we can redirect resources away from conflict and toward creating better ideas…We have an opportunity to redefine … Continue reading
Reading Development 