Most of its 40 national member organisations aim to bring
together interested citizens, regulators and academics on an individual basis, but many have primarily corporate members (most notably local authorities) and some are government departments or agencies.
Not exact matches
When groups of
citizens get
together to accomplish purposes of mutual
interest (from which they derive no profit), it should not be the responsibility of government to inspect, evaluate and approve their endeavors on the basis of supposed conformity to the prevailing notion of «public benefit» or «public policy» of the moment.
«specials
interests» is just another way of saying «
Citizens groups» who get
together, pool their money and advocate for their beliefs.
While their governments pitted them against each other,
citizens themselves worked
together to advance their mutual
interests.
You knew something
interesting might happen at this afternoon's Personal Democracy Forum panel on
citizen - generated content right from the start — as the crowd gathered, a confrontational flier put
together by MoveOn.org circulated through the room, accusing MySpace of censoring site members» words and pictures.
You knew something
interesting might happen at this afternoon's Personal Democracy Forum panel on
citizen - generated content right from the start — as the crowd gathered, a confrontational flier put
together by MoveOn.org circulated through the room, accusing MySpace of censoring site...
So on Wednesday,
Citizens Union, Reinvent Albany, Common Cause NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, and the New York Public
Interest Research Group sent a letter to Governor Cuomo and the two new legislative leaders, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, urging them to come
together to enact comprehensive and significant reforms in five ethics categories.
While some
citizen science programs are modeled on the idea that volunteers are strictly there to learn from professionals, Shirk said
citizen scientists also want to be part of a discovery and help gather data relevant to a problem that
interests them in calling upon programs to embrace learning
together.
MAC hopes this webpage will help pit bull owners, rescue groups, animal control agencies, politicians, journalists and
interested citizens learn more about Pit Bulls and how we can work
together to help dogs in our state.
While the two negotiating sides are setting out their stalls and a few toys are thrown out of the respective prams it will be in the
interests of both sides and particularly in the
interests of the current
citizens of the EU that there is a coming
together of positions to ensure close co-operation for civil justice in the future.
«What we found with social media is we were able to mobilise mass
interest, mass participation of people from all over the world, so people came as
citizen scientists... to participate in surveys of indigenous threatened species so all of that combination of people standing for Country
together was able to show these things are not automatic, that these big projects don't need to happen if people stand (
together).