JONATHAN COOK: This is a good year for collaborating at local level
Successful projects are driven by ordinary citizens who find personal satisfaction in doing something worthwhile
It is going to be a momentous year. Countries representing more than half the world’s populations go to the polls in 2024, with potentially huge consequences. Science and technology are taking off at an astonishing rate. El Nino is back, with its threat of further global warming. Paris will host the Olympics. And that’s only the stuff we know about.
Amid all these momentous events on the national and global stages we may feel insignificant and ineffective. But it is local level services that often affect our lives most, and their people with business insight and experience have something special to offer in support of effective local government...
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