By involving citizens and health workers in producing evidence and learning, participatory action research has potential to organize community evidence, stimulate action, and challenge the marginalization that undermines achievement of universal health coverage. This paper summarizes and analyzes results of two sessions on this research model convened by the authors at the First Global Symposiu...

In recent years, British science policy has seen a significant shift 'from deficit to dialogue' in conceptualizing the relationship between science and the public. Academics in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) have been influential as advocates of the new public engagement agenda. However, this participatory agenda has deeper roots in the political ideology of...

This paper is about extending stakeholder dialogue to include citizens in decision making which impacts on corporate sustainabilityolicy frameworks using the tools of regulation and economic instruments, and communication strategies, have a significant influence on the level of corporate sustainability. Involving citizens, through the use of deliberative and representative (participatory) proce...

In some policy areas such as urban planning, waste management or environmental policy widespread demands for citizen participation have been met in the last twenty years or so. Participation has become a prominent means of social inclusion. Recently, the participatory discourse has entered the till then highly expert-oriented debates over science and technology policymaking. In the field of tec...

The ubiquity of the various cheap embedded sensors on mobile devices, for example cameras, microphones, accelerometers, and so on, is enabling the emergence of participatory sensing applications. While participatory sensing can benefit the individuals and communities greatly, the collection and analysis of the participators’ location and trajectory data may jeopardize their privacy. However, th...

To ensure network-centric and other systems provide relevant capability to the C2 user, effort needs to be expended in understanding the requirements, designing the appropriate solution, developing the capability and implementing for acceptance. The cognitive systems engineering and the software systems engineering communities struggle with the difficulties of understanding a domain and its cha...

BACKGROUND Few large and rigorous evaluations of participatory interventions systematically describe their context and implementation, or attempt to explain the mechanisms behind their impact. This study reports process evaluation data from the Ekjut cluster-randomised controlled trial of a participatory learning and action cycle with women's groups to improve maternal and newborn health outcom...

The assessment of vulnerability at the community level is currently strongly evolving. Also participatory methods are seen as the way forward to act successfully at the local/community level. In order to carry out effective measures for risk reduction, information has to be available about the hazards that threaten a certain area, the elements at risk (population, buildings, infrastructure, eco...