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People around the world are speaking out ant demanding a more equal society, fair access to apportunities and a faire chance to lead their lives.
The Empowered People Index (EPI) measures the power of each individual to determine his own future. It answers the quetsion : how empowered are people to make a change in a given society ? The index consists of 3 families of criteria : the empowerment to scan, the empowerment to process and the empowerment to act :
. the empowerment to scan concerns the ability to access unbaised and exhaustive information (which in turn implies freedom of press, acccess to internet, etc.)
. the empowerment to process is the ability to understant the information accessed (which in turn implies access to education, electricirty, security, etc.)
. the empowerment to act refers to the possibility to take action on the information processed (which in turn implies the ability to start a business, access to bank loans, transportation, etc.)
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