Archives by Tag 'citizen participation'

Haiti: Locating the affirmative burden of responsibility

By Critt Jarvis - Last updated: Friday, January 22, 2010

Logic and emotion It was an earthquake. A really big one. Turns out the reaction and response reaches every corner of the globe. Perturbative, this event has challenged the dimensions of security, of rules sets, of money, of infrastructure, and of resources; and the world is challenged to provide strategic flows of security, aid, money, [...]

An app for that: The Enterra

By Critt Jarvis - Last updated: Thursday, January 21, 2010

Regeneration Two things cannot be rightly put together without a third; there must be some bond of union between them. And the fairest bond is that which makes the most complete fusion of itself and the things which it combines; and proportion is best adapted to effect such a union. -Plato The poetic hymn “There’s [...]

The Disaster Accountability Project

By Critt Jarvis - Last updated: Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Observers “R” Us “We need to be able to independently assure ourselves and Congress that DHS has implemented many of our past recommendations or has taken other corrective actions to address the challenges we identified. However, DHS has not made its management or operational decisions transparent enough so that Congress can be sure it is [...]