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San Antonio Deepens Trust With Constituents

GovLoop

San Antonio launched an initiative called SASpeakUp in 2015 to gather better input on the city’s budget and its services. Although the city held public meetings for that purpose, city officials noticed that the same people were attending all of them.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Consider, for example, the role of the Internet and social media. As they lend a sense of immediacy and connection, social media have strengthened that relationship, and never more than in times of disaster. Public Affairs, New York, 443 pp. Krimgold (eds) 2015. i] Muggah, R. ii] Farmer, Paul 2012.