Around the world democracy is struggling and needs strengthening. It’s time we ensured that people are placed at the heart of how decisions are made, how places are shaped, and how services are run.
I was in the supermarket choosing a birthday card when I heard a child singing the alphabet beside me: ABC..DEFG.. HIJKLM… And I thought, maybe we should share health knowledge this way, through memorable rhymes, stories and games.
What kind of region do we want to live in? That was the question that launched Same Skies in November 2015. A question we are still asking. But how we're asking it, where we're asking it and who is being asked is changing all the time.
The Co-City project is an international movement working towards participatory urban governance, inclusive growth and social innovation. It does so by bringing together public authorities, civic organisations, local businesses, knowledge institutions and social innovators to ask the question ‘to whom does the city belong?’ with the goal of creating more just and democratic cities.
The current gender spilt in the House of Commons stands at 32%, and at 26% in both the House of Lords and in the cabinet. We clearly need to be doing better.
This may come as a shock to some, but “devolution” is not a very sexy word. It is not particularly popular with headline writers or SEO specialists, which goes some way to explain why you don’t read too many news stories about the joys of shifting power from Westminster down to local levels.
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* These blogs are a collection of thoughts and opinions from people living or working in the North. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the text belong solely to the author, and not necessarily to the People's Powerhouse.
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