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And all of this could be improved by us entering the modern world with the introduction of a democratic form of local government instead of the undemocratic/unaccountable Council CEO system we have now:

#LocalDemocracy #Ireland #LocalGovernmentReform #Democracy #Irish #Community #Waterford #Democratic #LocalGovernment #IrishPolitics #IrishPol #DemocraticReform #Democratisation #Decentralisation #UrbanDesign #ActiveTravel #Urbanism #Planning #UrbanPlanning #WaterfordCity #Déise #Cycling #Bikes

A lot of this opposition comes from the fact that residents feel ignored when decisions are made by an unelected local government ('Council CEO' and Directors of Services who form the executive) - and I completely agree with Cllr Adam Wyse's recent appeals to improve democratic accountability. Changing Section 38 wouldn't be enough, as it still encourages elected councillors to oppose everything (as every councillor is effectively forced into being in opposition due to our undemocratic system of local government where they are blocked from being decision-makers), denies them any ability to form a democratic executive, and allows the Council CEO and Directors of Services to ignore public feedback without any cost.

Every other democracy in the world has 1 of 3 forms of democratic government structures:
A cabinet system with an executive formed of elected councillors - a Local Mayor and Local Ministers (like we and most other European countries have at national level, a parliamentary system)
A committee system with a series of cross-party executive Local Committees for Housing, Transport etc - this works really well in Scotland especially as it encourages cross-party collaboration and includes all democratic representatives.
A mayoral/presidential system, with a directly-elected executive mayor and Local Commissioners that they appoint, all held accountable by elected councillors. This system has been implemented in Limerick (to a minor extent, with the Council CEO renamed Dire

We currently have one of the most centralised countries in both the OECD and the EU, and are one of the only countries in Europe where votes trust their local government less than their national government (which generally holding relatively higher levels of trust for both due to our brilliant proportional and preferential STV-PR electoral system). Our unique lack of democratic accountability due to our undemocratic system of local government (which, once again, is distinct from every other democracy in the world, which has autonomous democratic local governments of one form or another) is a major reason for this.

Until the system changes to one where local councils can choose a democratic structure where they are elected to make decisions as part of an accountable executive, we will continue incentivising councillors to oppose any changes (because of a few vocal voters drowning out the majority with our individual objector planning instead of a majority participative planning system) and an unelected Local Government which is encouraged to ignore voter concerns and input.

I hope that everyone reading this can support local government reform to allow us to join the rest of the democratic world in having local executives which face democratic accountability. The UK has had a bad history of underfunding local government and centralising things, but implemented successful structural reforms in their local government reform of 2000 [full legislation here], which allowed each council to choose 1 of 4 structures (cabinet, committee, mayoral, and council CEO - similar to our current system but with the council CEO appointed by councillors instead of national government to improve local democratic accountability; this was later removed as an option because not a single council in the UK chose this worse system when given the choice).

Please consider expediting the creation of new safe and segregated bike infrastructure (inner ring road, urban Greenway to Tramore, and Cork Road) before there are any more casualties of cyclists and e-scooter users due to lack of safe infrastructure. People are always against roadworks and upheaval, but so rarely complain about infrastructure once it's completed and they see the results in terms of improved traffic levels, more freedom of travel, and better wellbeing. And please consider putting pressure on your parties and other councillors to support local government reform into one which is more democratic and trusted, alongside holding more decentralised powers.

[PARUTION]
Le premier numéro de 2026 est paru!
Dossier "École et pauvreté" coordonné par Élisabeth Bussienne et Dominique Seghetchian

Qu’est-ce que la pauvreté fait à l’école ? Et que fait l’école de la pauvreté ? Si le rôle principal de l’école est d’amener tous les enfants à apprendre, elle y réussit insuffisamment, et les difficultés des élèves sont socialement réparties. Comment la pauvreté se manifeste-t-elle à l’école, et quelles réponses apporter à l’impact qu’elle a sur les apprentissages, l’orientation, les parcours et la vie scolaire ?

#école #pauvreté #inégalités #démocratisation

Découvrez le sommaire ici⤵️
https://www.cahiers-pedagogiques.com/sommaire-revue-603/

When ever I hear "democratisation" from a US #tech company, I know it doesn't mean public control of anything, or heaven forbid, accountability for what you're pushing.

That buzzword is dead to me. Just look at what "democratisation of currency" achieved: Power for criminals to buy elections.

#democratisation #buzzwords #bullshit

𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 #𝐄𝐂𝐒𝐀𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧
The panel invites reflections on how citizen science can contribute to the #democratisation of the contents of #heritage collections and #archives and the surrounding practices, thereby enhancing public access, engagement and ownership.
𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝟕 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/ecsa2026/p/17161
#CallForPapers

#DÉMOCRATISATION ___ Le processus inachevé de démocratisation est condamné à l'échec tant qu'il n'est pas implémenté dans le domaine des entreprises. Tant que ces dernières persistent à fonctionnent sur un modèle autocrate, ce dernier finit toujours par contaminer le reste de la société. https://wikitractatus.ourednik.info/démocratisation

I've seen some posts and articles about this report, but it definitely hasn't gotten the airtime it deserves.

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https://www.waterford-news.ie/news/south-east-economic-monitor-no-gdp-growth-in-five-years_arid-64393.html

#Ireland #Waterford #Politics #Economics #IrishEconomy #IrishPolitics #RegionalDevelopment #SouthEast #Irish #Decentralisation #Democratisation #Progressive #Investment #LeftBehind #Left

I've seen some posts and articles about this report, but it definitely hasn't gotten the airtime it deserves.

What it reveals is absolutely shocking. In the context of a fast-growing national economy, the fact that the regional economy of the South East hasn't grown *at all* in real terms over the past 5 years is a black mark against every single person in power. Considering population growth in the region, this 0% growth actually represents a decline in GDP per capita in real terms. This is mostly driven by a lack of investment, primarily public investment (which private investment typically takes its lead from when identifying investment opportunities).

It is clear that our region has been left behind by the current system. Major blame for this lies at the feet of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, who have been in power consistently throughout this period and during the preceding decades. Anyone who voted for Mary Butler or John Cummins simply voted for more of the same at a time when this status quo is absolutely choking our city, our county, and our wider South East region. As many people my age continue to leave in droves either for Limerick, Cork, or Dublin, or further afield to London, Vancouver, Berlin or Melbourne, this continuation of the status quo is essentially just turkeys voting for Christmas.

In a more general sense, the problem isn't just unambitious career politicians like Mary Butler and John Cummins who will fall in line to defend their party instead of standing up for our region; it is a lack of will among every political leader to properly push for the decentralisation and democratisation of what is one of the most centralised and undemocratic systems in both the OECD and the EU. The current system where everything is decided by unaccountable bureaucrats in Dublin, or by an unelected, undemocratic local governments (Council CEOs and their Directors of Services) is so clearly failing all of us.

I hope that this report makes political leaders realise that we need ambitious system change in order to thrive as a city, county, and region - more minor incremental tweaks within a broken system just won't cut it, and

Aujourd'hui, il existe des versions gratuites de #ChatGPT mais pour accéder à un langage de meilleure qualité, il faut s'abonner.
Autrement dit, on paye pour avoir un meilleur langage.
Et c'est là que nous basculons dans un monde inquiétant. Le #langage, instrument de #démocratisation et d #émancipation par excellence, se #financiarise. Ce qui relevait autrefois de la #dystopie est aujourd'hui notre étrange réalité
PASCAL #CHABOT
#Philosophe
#élèves #apprentissage #futur

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/etre-et-savoir/ia-comment-faire-ecrire-les-eleves-9142419

The democratisation of fitness trackers through the import/export feature of GPX data removes vendor lock-in and thereby puts the value in the presentation of the data and/or the community around/within the app.

#gpx #FitnessTracker #VendorLockIn #democratisation #community

Comment la #democratisation de l’Allemagne & la relation franco-allemande ont-elles progressées après la #EndOfWWII ? « La France et la #dénazification de l’Allemagne après 1945 » discute les enjeux de la transformation politique et sociale dans la zone française de l’Allemagne. #TheEndsOfWar #WWII80

Couverture de : "La France et la dénazification de l’Allemagne après 1945"

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @cryptadamist Yes.

What they call ’#democratisation’ is a scam. The #cypherpunks etc whatever they like to think of themselves, want nothing but complete freedom from enforcement of any laws on them.

They want the ”freedom” for the will of the elected majority to not apply to them.

It ends the rule of law, it ends democracy. And as lawless spaces have to governed by somebody in any case, it turns the structure of society into a #mafia.

Did “hard” political science’s focus on positivist methods fuel overoptimism about democratisation and dem institutions in E Europe?

A quant analysis of 500 papers (2000–2015) suggests so

Awkward questions, careful answers

If you read academic articles, well worth a look

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10758216.2024.2447301

#easterneurope #politicalscience #democracy #socialscience #democratisation

Thanks to Waterford News & Star for covering my General Election Campaign Announcement!

We All Thrive when we Democratise, Decentralise, and Decarbonise!

https://www.waterford-news.ie/news/killian-mangan-to-run-as-independent-candidate-in-general-election_arid-36534.html

#waterford #dungarvan #tramore #lismore #waterfordcity #dunmore #dunmoreeast #democracy #local #ireland #irishpolitics #GE2024 #decentralisation #WeAllThrive #decarbonisation #democratisation

(...) the strategic use of AI's controversiality threatens the role of public controversy as a force of the #democratisation of research and innovation, and risks to undermine its capacity for inclusion and problematisation. (...) This situation not only has implications for our understanding of #AI controversies as occasions for the democratisation of knowledge; it also has consequences for the methodology of #controversy #analysis

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241255103

Kazakhstan: Reform under darkening skies https://www.euractiv.com/section/central-asia/opinion/kazakhstan-reform-under-darkening-skies/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #democratisation #Kazakhstan #reforms #Russia #Russianinvasion

RT by @Tineke_Strik: 🆕 #CriticalThinking article | Lots of promises, little action: why the #EU fails to evoke #democratisation in the #WesternBalkans

👁️ Read this new article by @Tineke_Strik, @GreensEFA spokesperson on Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia. 👇
https://frnds.eu/3SAqz0P

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/FriendsofEurope/status/1723012341141234024#m

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Raconter le déclin de la « petite bourgeoisie culturelle »
https://mcinformactions.net/211819
#culture #savoirs #democratisation

@sebsauvage
Je ne partage pas tout à fait ce point de vue.

On aurait pu faire la même supposition à propos de l'accès à la technologie et à l'informatique il y a quelques décennies.

En réalité, l'histoire nous montre que la démocratisation technologique est souvent inévitable. Aujourd'hui, presque tout le monde possède dans sa poche un appareil avec une puissance de calcul supérieure à celle qu'avait la NASA dans les années 1990.

#IA #Technologie #démocratisation

#Democratisation trends in sub-Saharan #Africa: #GIGA expert Matthias Basedau sees serious threats such as #MilitaryCoups, #ViolentConflict, and socio-economic challenges, but finds positive long-term developments. Read his analysis in #GIGAFocus: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publications/giga-focus/under-pressure-democratisation-trends-in-sub-saharan-africa

Anti-globalisation has, thus, to mean complete #democratisation so as to make all social forces accountable to human #needs. In sum, the demand for a new #democratically constituted #regulation of #capital should be taken seriously. Though, it should be deepened and not restricted to legitimate the social engineering of discipline. It should first of all be taken on in the tradition of Enlightenment thought: Doubt everything! Second, it should be taken to its logical conclusion: the democratic organisation of socially necessary labour by the associated producers themselves, that is, the utopia of the society of the free and equal that #Marx summed up with one word: #communism.

Werner #Bonefeld on Globalisation

A climate of optimism? EU policy-making, political science and the democratization of Central and Eastern Europe (2000–2015) | Comparative European Politics

Lise Herman, James Dawson & Aurelia Ananda address some long overdue issues.

Open access

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41295-023-00364-2 #easterneurope #CEE #democratisation #politicalscience

#Democratisation

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