What is citizen empowerment?

Introduction

 * Empowerment is a set of measures designed to increase the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities in order to enable them to represent their interests in a responsible and self-determined way, acting on their own authority.
 * Citizen empowerment is about facilitating a dialogue with citizens, enable voting and facilitate to possibility to take action.
 * In many European cities people are experimenting. In the Netherlands you have Vaardam. In 2021 we will also try to get Liquid democracy on the Volt agenda.
 * Citizen empowerment can be hard. See blog from Joshua Tauberer from 2015 'So you want to reform democracy'.