Citizen-led mitigation and adaptation are key to climate policy advancement acceleration, particularly within an urban development context. The top-down approach requires the of clear action plans for involvement engagement citizens accelerate bottom-up efforts In Malaysia, there national strategies such as 12th Malaysia Plan, National Urban Wellbeing Blueprint, Climate Change Policy, Malaysian...

PROBLEM AND BACKGROUND In 1998, the University of California San Diego (UCSD) was selected as one of four National Centers of Leadership in Academic Medicine (NCLAM) to develop a structured mentoring program for junior faculty. METHOD Participants were surveyed at the beginning and end of the seven-month program, and one-four years after. The institution provided financial information. Four p...

One of the central problems in migration measurement arises as a consequence of the different sources of migration data. Most information regarding migration is obtained from population censuses or population registers that report migration data for a given time interval. Another source of migration data is the sample survey which may be designed to provide information about both migrants and...

Tweaking citizen participation is vital in promoting Smart City services. However, conventional practices deficit sufficient realization of personal traits despite socio-economic promise. The recent trend of IoT-enabled smart-objects/things and personalized services pave the way for context-aware services. Eventually, the aim of this paper is to develop a context-aware model in predicting parti...

trust, along with transparency, is an important indicator of a satisfactory relationship between a government and the public. considering transparency as the key to trust in government, the purpose of this paper is to postulate a link between transparency and trust taking into account satisfaction as a psychological factor. this paper tries to find the answer of these questions: “is there any s...

Unconformity and distrust are the results of sociopolitical attempt aimed to socially economically evolve under Top-Down system, finding that “there is no hell like a small town,” Colombian expression meaning despite size social group, its problems could be as big those metropolis. Aipe one Huila’s municipalities benefited from oil bonanza, inversely proportional social, economic, environmental...

The recognition that Web 2.0 applications and social media sites will strengthen and improve interaction between governments and citizens has resulted in a global push into new e-democracy or Government 2.0 spaces. These typically follow government-to-citizen (g2c) or citizen-to-citizen (c2c) models, but both these approaches are problematic: g2c is often concerned more with service delivery to...