Why ordinary people need to understand power? by Nadia Molek

Ted Talk: Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power

mo13 — 2015-04-10 14:34:38 UTC

1) Which definition of power sets Eric Liu?

mo13 — 2015-04-10 14:35:24 UTC

2) Which important problem (in relation to power) does he identify around the world?

mo13 — 2015-04-10 14:36:43 UTC

3) What is his proposal?

mo13 — 2015-04-10 14:36:52 UTC

4) Search for an example of Participatory Budget around the world. Look up information in web pages like: www.washingtonpost.com; www.nhi.org; www.slate.com

mo13 — 2015-04-10 14:37:18 UTC

Group 5

2015-04-10 14:43:05 UTC

1. Capacity to make others do, what you want them to do.

Power is the way of any government to gobern, whether democracy

or dictatorship.

Group 3

2015-04-10 14:50:15 UTC

The capacity to make others do whta you would want them do. Power governs how any government operates, wether decomcracy or dictatorship

Group 6

2015-04-10 14:53:13 UTC

1) Power: "The capacity to make others do what you´ll have them do."

Group 1

2015-04-10 14:53:30 UTC

1. The definition that Eric Liu gives about power is the abilty to make others do what you want it to do.

Group 6

2015-04-10 14:54:28 UTC

2) The important problem that he identifies around the world is the ignorance of power of the majority. He says: "Far too many people are profundly ilirated in power. What it is? who has it? How it operates? Why some people have it and so on.

Group 5

2015-04-10 14:55:28 UTC

The problem we face today in the world is that far to many people are profoundly iliterate in power. People are to ingnorant and don't want to see the todays reality of our lives. The result of this problem is that the ones who understand how power works in our lives will disproportionality influence the others and create a lack of civil knowledge, civil engagment, participation, awarness.

Group 4

2015-04-10 14:56:10 UTC

He describes Power as "the capacity to make others do what you want them to do."

Group 2

2015-04-10 14:56:35 UTC

The definition of power acording to Eric Liu is that power is the capacity to make others do what you would have them do

Group 3

2015-04-10 14:56:57 UTC

Far too many people are profundly illiterated in power (they don´t understand what it is, who has it, how operates, what part is visible and what part is not)

The result of this illiteracy is that thos who do understand how power operates, can easely manipulate/influence thos who don`t .

Group 4

2015-04-10 14:57:10 UTC

He says that far too many people don't know what power is and how it behaves. That's why too many people are being manipulated.

Group 1

2015-04-10 14:58:05 UTC

2. The problem with we deal today, is that many people does not know really what power is and how much influence it has.

Group 2

2015-04-10 14:58:17 UTC

He determinates that far too many people are profoundly illiterate in power. What it is, who has it, how it operates, how it flows, what of it is visible, what part of it is not, why some people have it, way that is compounded.

Group 8

2015-04-10 14:58:17 UTC

1)He descrives power as the capacity to make others do what you would have them do

Group 8

2015-04-10 14:59:44 UTC

2) He identifies that there are many people who are profoundly illiterate in power and that power has a negative moral violence

Group 4

2015-04-10 15:00:09 UTC

Proposal:

He thinks that it is very important to teach what power is, because if people that don’t learn about it is will be manipulated and left out of the society.

Group 7

2015-04-10 15:01:14 UTC

1. Eric Liu defines power as the capacity to make others do what you would have them to do

Group 1

2015-04-10 15:01:31 UTC

3. The proposal of Eric Liu is to concern people about that is power,how it operates and why people have it.

Group 8

2015-04-10 15:02:26 UTC

3) His proposal is to think about what you want to create or fix in your city, and to ask yourself if you have command of these elemental questions of power.

Group 2

2015-04-10 15:04:07 UTC

His proposal is to teach people about power, so they don't get easily manipulated

Group 1

2015-04-10 15:04:11 UTC

4. Lets citicens decide where their tax dollars go. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/06/17/participatory_budgeting_lets_citizens_decide_where_their_tax_dollars_go.html

In this article Hollie Russon Gilman explain how the american citizens vote to deliver his taxes. There is a politic that makes people participate in the delivery of their taxes.

Group 6

2015-04-10 15:04:30 UTC

3) Proposal: Teaching power.

"If people don´t learn power, people don´t weak up and if they don´t get up, they get left out."

Group 7

2015-04-10 15:06:57 UTC

2. He identifies that a lot of people around the world are illiterate on power

Group 8

2015-04-10 15:08:32 UTC

HOW WOULD YOU SPEND $1 MILLION?

New York City is experiencing a new kind of democracy. Through Participatory Budgeting, residents of twenty-four Council Districts across the City are directly deciding how to spend $25 million of taxpayer money. From September 2014 to April 2015, community members are exchanging ideas, working together to turn ideas into project proposals, and voting to decide what proposals get funded.

Group 7

2015-04-10 15:10:11 UTC

3. He proposes to reimagine civics as the teaching of power

Group 2

2015-04-10 15:11:25 UTC

"Brazil let its citizens make decisions about city budgets"

Over the past 20 years, “participatory institutions” have spread around the world. Participatory institutions delegate decision-making authority directly to citizens, often in local politics, and have attracted widespread support. International organizations, such as the World Bank and USAID, promote citizen participation in hopes that it will generate more accountable governments, strengthen social networks, improve public services, and inform voters.

Group 3

2015-04-10 15:14:02 UTC

Reimagine civics as a teaching of power

People need to learn power, people need to wake up, otherwise they get left out

Group 6

2015-04-14 11:03:32 UTC

4) Example of "Participatory budget":

Guelph’s Neighbourhood Support Coalition and the Toronto Community Housing Corporation’s Tenant Participation System are the first North American experiments with participatory budgeting, a democratic process in which city residents decide how to allocate part of a municipal or public budget.

This has made public participation more powerful, government decision-making more democratic and public spending more equitable.

Group 5

2015-04-14 11:04:22 UTC

His proposal is to think about something you want to change about your citiy and ask yourself if you can do it.

He proposes also to learn power, so people won't left out

Group 3

2015-04-14 11:14:00 UTC

In 2008, La Plata launched a PB initiative in which citizens gather in neighborhood assemblies to debate their needs, and to develop projects that propose public works, services, and programs. This is followed by a larger process of voting. In 2012, it became the first city in Argentina to enable participants of the public assemblies to decide on rules and regulations for the PB process. 2008, $10,5M 51.104 persons took part

Group 7

2015-04-14 11:17:08 UTC

Boston’s PB process, the first youth PB initiative in the U.S., was launched in January 2014 as an initiative of the Mayor’s office. The process lets the city’s youth ages 12-25 decide how to spend $1 million of the capital budget. Source: http://www.participatorybudgeting.org/about-participatory-budgeting/examples-of-participatory-budgeting/

Group 4 (with link)

2015-04-14 11:18:10 UTC

Participatory Budgeting: ordinary people deciding how to allocate part of a municipal or public budget. In 2005, for example, one neighborhood in the USA decided to not accept any Coalition money for its projects, instead leaving the funds for groups with greater needs. http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/146/canadianbudgeting.html

Group 5

2015-04-14 11:20:09 UTC

In Argentina, Rosario’s PB consists of an annual cycle in which over 87,000 city residents decide how to allocate around $9 million of the city budget. In this city of 1 million people, residents discuss spending ideas at neighborhood assemblies, elected delegates develop full budget proposals, and then residents vote on the proposals at another round of voting assemblies. The funds can be spent on both capital projects and services or programs http://www.participatorybudgeting.org/about-participatory-budgeting/examples-of-participatory-budgeting/

2015-04-14 11:24:41 UTC