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Analysis of Community Empowerment and Development, Community empowerment is a process where the community development initiative to begin the process of social activities to improve the situation and condition yourself. Community empowerment can only occur when citizens participate.

An attempt was successful only rated as “community empowerment” if the community or community groups become agents of development or known also as the subject. Here the subject is the driving force, and not beneficiaries (English: beneficiaries) or the object alone.

Empowering the community (community empowerment) is sometimes very difficult to distinguish from community strengthening and community development (community development). Because practically overlap, interchangeable and refer to a similar understanding.

Opinion of Cook (1994) stated that community development is a concept related to the improvement or development of society towards a positive direction. While Giarci (2001) saw community development as a matter of having the center of attention in helping the community in a variety of age groups to grow and develop through a variety of facilitation and support to enable them to decide, plan and take action to manage and develop their physical environment and social welfare. This process takes place with dukungancollective action and networking community developed

While Bartle (2003) defines community development as a tool to make more complex and stronger communities. It is a social change where society becomes more complex, local institutions grow, increasing its collective power and qualitative changes in the organization.

Based on the intersection and replace mutual understanding of community development and community empowerment, in a simple, Subejo and Supriyanto (2004) interpret the empowerment of society as a deliberate effort to facilitate local communities in planning, deciding and managing local resources that are owned through collective action and networking so that ultimately they have the capability and independence in economic, ecological, and social “.

In broader terms, community empowerment is a process to facilitate and encourage people to be able to put ourselves in proportion and become the main actors in exploiting its strategic environment to achieve a long-term sustainability.

Empowering communities have close links with sustainable development where community empowerment is a key prerequisite and can be likened to a train that will take society towards a sustainable economic, social and ecological dynamics. Strategic environment that is owned by local communities include, among others production environment, economic, social and ecological. Through empowerment, residents are encouraged to have the ability to utilize its resources optimally and fully involved in the mechanism of production, economic, social and ecological him. In summary the link between community empowerment to sustainable development.

Community empowerment is closely related to internal and external factors. Without play down the significance and role of one factor, in fact both factors contribute to and influence each other synergistically and dynamically. Although several examples of cases previously mentioned internal factors are very important as one of self-organizing form of society, but we also need to give attention to external factors.

Google Launches Solution to Egypt Twitter

Google Inc. launched a special service that allows people in Egypt to send a Twitter message with a contact phone number and voicemail, Internet access due to be decided at country amid anti-government protests.
Google Launches Solution to Egypt Twitter

The protesters took part in anti-Mubarak protests in the field ut-Tahrir in Cairo, February 1, 2011.

“As many people have fixated on the news that took place in Egypt and think about what we could do to help people in the field,” reads a post on Google’s official company blog on Monday (01/31).

This service, which Google developed as said engineers Twitter, allows people to make calls the phone number and leaving voice messages. Voice messages are automatically translated into an audio file message sent on Twitter using tags that identify # egypt, Google said.

Google said in a blog post, titled “Some of the work on the weekend that will (hopefully) allows citizens of Egypt could be heard,” that there is no Internet connection is required to use this service.

It is listed telephone numbers of three people to make calls using the service.

Internet social networking services like Twitter and Facebook has become a very important communication tool for protesters in Egypt who have been in the streets since last week to protest the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak.

Internet service has been suspended throughout the country and telephone text messaging has been disabled.

A source said that Google, a company with the motto “Do not Be Evil,” do not take sides in the crisis in Egypt, but only supports access to information as it has done with other services, like video site YouTube.

YouTube has been doing broadcast streaming live coverage of events in Egypt’s Al-Jazeera.

Dozens of messages talking, tweet, which is shown in Twitter on Monday. The messages range from a few seconds to several minutes and people are displaying their self-identification as the Egyptians and describes their situation in various countries.

“The government is spreading rumors and fear of theft and violence,” said one message from a speaker of English. “The incident only theft and robberies committed by police themselves.”

Google lists the following numbers for people who would use this service: +16504194196 or +390662207294 or 97316199855.

Facebook Group Science of the Universe pull information Imanda Amalia’s death in Cairo, Egypt, because the families do not want the news is disseminated.
Science of Universe Drag the death of Imanda Post

Science of the Universe

Previously, the Science of the Universe who posted the citizen’s death, Imanda Amalia who is the staff of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in his Facebook page.

Science of the Universe even apologized for the reports that up to now still waiting for the truth.

Here is a posted apology admin account up Science of the Universe:

SOU apologize to members and the public of Indonesia on the news about Imanda Amalia in Egypt. We have done a faux pas on the news.

1. Since we just received news from the fuel Imanda and do not re-checking Imanda to the family directly.

2. We are sorry that … profusely to the family of our preaching Imanda Amalia who do not confirm previous.

3. The family ask that obituaries are not disseminated.

Thank you for all the attention.

Science of the Universe apologized profusely to the khalayk general and Indonesia in particular communities over preaching Imanda Amalia is not yet clear truth.