INTRODUCTION Patient and public involvement in healthcare planning, service development and health-related research has received significant attention. However, evidence about the role of patient involvement in quality improvement work is more limited. We aimed to characterize patient involvement in three improvement projects and to identify strengths and weaknesses of contrasting approaches. ...

Public and patient involvement in social and health care has proceeded in many civil societies. Depending on the legislations on national and community levels, citizens and patients have a greater say in shaping social and health care. In Germany, the patient involvement by self-help organizations at the macro level (national level and level of federal states) has significantly developed over t...

During the past ten years, we have witnessed how mobile phones and the simple functions of voice and text messaging (SMS) can empower citizens and affect the way citizens interact with each other and with the society as whole. Mobile phones are also thought to open up for a deepened democracy through citizen participation and insight into state affairs, through influencing the political decisio...

This paper reports preliminary findings from the Finding a Voice project, an ethnographic investigation into the development and consequences of participatory content creation programs in underserved communities in India, Indonesia, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The project explores how information and communication technology can be used to enable both civic and cultural participation, and creative eng...

In Local Area Networks (LAN) connected together by bridges, flow control and smooth traffic in the network is very important. However, congestion at bridges can cause intensive loss of received frames. In addition, the received frames are thrown away and have to be retransmitted by the source station, which causes more congestion and massive reduction in the overall network throughput. The netw...

This study examined how the use of social media among youth influences their offline civic participation outside election period in Tanzania. Unlike previous studies, this used multidimensional aspects participation.  Civic was studied using concurrent qualitative dominant mixed-methods approach. The conducted four focus group discussions (FGD) with aid an FGD guide and surveyed 372 young ...

Abstract Language revitalisation gives voice to those who participate in it. But it is not always clear whose the participants make heard. It also straightforward hears and wants listen voices that are raised during language revitalisation. In this article, we present a educational programme which aims give of Moldavian Hungarian (also called Csángó ) North-East Romania. Applying Goffmanian par...