Right across the developing world, citizens and communities are using technology to enable them to bring about change, positive change, in their own communities.

In 2011 the world has learned more about the transformative power of online citizen media.

Our task is to strengthen indigenous political forces pushing for democratic change.

Even then, successfully changing institutions is easier said than done, as they are rooted in deeply enshrined norms and values.

The elected president wants to act, but the assembly refuses to approve the necessary laws.

So far, little damage has been done and little positive change accomplished.

During the communist era, most people believed that individual efforts to effect change did not make sense.

Undoubtedly, one of the main reasons for this positive change is the setting aside of past constraints and the stepping down of the old guard.

Historically, there tends to be the same set of themes fearsome, uncontrolled transformative change led by educated, urbanized cosmopolitans.

Europe has a unique chance to demonstrate that it can make a difference in America s post unipolar moment.

I would like to end on a positive note, because, as the representative of Greece and others have noted, there has also been a lot of positive change in Africa in recent years.

The Agency had been working closely with the Special Envoy for Disengagement of the Quartet team on how best to channel aid for positive change and economic improvement.

Of the four growth components that fall into this category, two have the greatest potential to make a difference capital spending and exports.

In that regard, this Summit represents a real test of the international community's will to effect the changes that all Member States of the Organization seek.

But this can and should be addressed by domestic policies aimed at bringing about structural change, not by external policies like exchange rate appreciation.

Russians may be concerned by growing unemployment and reduced incomes, but this is not manifesting itself in any drive to organize or try to effect political change.

The success of some in having their claims heard is testimony to the growing power of law as a force for positive change in Europe.

Thus, in spite of persistent conflicts and hot spots, the world has moved resolutely ahead along the exhilarating path of positive change, thereby giving people a better chance of controlling their fate.

And I think that the way you're going to get what you want, or cause the change that you want to change, to happen, is that you've got to figure out a way to get your ideas to spread.

It is here in the rapid development of export industries and the dramatic rise in export volumes that NAFTA made the difference.

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In particular, industrial development plays a significant role in bringing about the much needed structural change that can set the economies of poor countries on a sustained economic growth path.

It would be useful to know to what extent the civil service, parliament and judiciary institutions which played a very important role in effecting change were familiar with the Convention and the obligations arising therefrom.

Both sides accept that working with local partners for peaceful democratic change today is the best way to avoid violent revolution or military action tomorrow.

Second, Turkey shows that an external anchor, such as membership in the European Union or pressure from the International Monetary Fund, can be decisive in triggering change and, therefore, in enhancing prosperity.

That change, which was carried out peacefully, without bloodshed and without disturbing people's everyday lives, was greeted with great joy and tremendous popular support unprecedented in the history of our country.

Often the target populations of poverty eradication projects are perceived as masses of undernourished people, overwhelmed by their circumstances and needs rather than capable agents of change in their communities.

Moreover, Simpson apparently does not understand that, as commission co chair, his job is to build a broad coalition for necessary and mutually beneficial policy changes.

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This change, this change. To see change that we must have if we care about the future.

This seems especially true when a government tries to enact radical economic or political reforms. The elected president wants to act, but the assembly refuses to approve the necessary laws.

Its driving ideological force was a European inspired secular nationalism, which strove for political and social modernization through top down government action.

I suspect that this is due to the proliferation of blogs, so inevitably there are those who do not understand or grasp blogging s capacity to influence decision making and to contribute to positive change.

(e) The National Committee for the Security of Civil Aviation was established, as were local committees at every airport.

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No one can deny the role of schools, civic and business leaders, and, of course, external forces in bringing about this change. But nor should one underestimate the importance of political leadership.

And the core idea of oyster tecture is to harness the biological power of mussels, eelgrass and oysters species that live in the harbor and, at the same time, harness the power of people who live in the community towards making change now.

Its strength must be drawn from the breadth of its partnerships and from its ability to bring those partners into effective coalitions for change across the whole spectrum of issues on which action is required to advance the cause of larger freedom.

Affirmative action, or positive discrimination, as some have called these policies, began with university admissions.