public participation
1Public participation — is a political principle or practice, and may also recognised as a right (right to public participation). The terms public participation may be used interchangeably with the concept or practice of stakeholder engagement and/or popular… …
2Public Participation GIS — Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS) was born, as a term, in 1996 at the meetings of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). [ Sieber, R. 2006. Public Participation and Geographic Information… …
3Public participation in patent examination — The involvement of the public in patent examination has been proposed and is currently used in some forms to help identifying relevant prior art and, more generally, to help assessing whether patent applications and inventions meet the… …
4Strategic lawsuit against public participation — A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation ( SLAPP ) is a lawsuit or a threat of lawsuit that is intended to intimidate and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition …
5strategic lawsuits against public participation — Retaliatory lawsuits intended to silence, intimidate, or punish those who have used public forums to speak, petition, or otherwise move for government action on an issue. Dictionary from West s Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. strategic… …
6European Centre of Enterprises with Public Participation and of Enterprises of General Economic Interest — (CEEP; Centre européen des entreprises à participation publique et des entreprises d intérêt économique général ) is a european association to represent public enterprises and enterprises which carry out services of general economic interest,… …
7European Centre of Enterprises with Public Participation and of Enterprises of General Economic Interest — Logo des CEEP Das European Centre of Enterprises with Public Participation and of Enterprises of General economic Interest (CEEP; Europäischer Zentralverband der öffentlichen Wirtschaft; Centre européen des entreprises à participation publique e …
8Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation — n. A lawsuit filed by a large corporation against a much smaller adversary in order to silence the adversary by swamping it with legal burdens and costs. abbrv. SLAPP The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc …
9Participation (decision making) — Participation in social science is an umbrella term including different means for the public to directly participate in political, economic, management or other social decisions. Ideally, each actor would have a say in decisions directly… …
10Public services — is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. The term is associated with a social consensus (usually expressed through… …
