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Nett-Buzz: a summary of online commentary and discussion on the blogosphere
25 January 2011 | blogs, corruption, debate, indices, online debateContents: Critical Assessments Crossing Borders Fresh Measures New tools and Tech Trends Critical Assessments The end of 2010 saw a number of critical...
A summary of online commentary and debate (July - Sept 2010)
04 October 2010 | blogs, newsletterTable of Contents Critical Assessments Fresh Measures Scoring Governance (and Sport) New tools and Tech Trends Critical Assessments There were a number of online discussions this summer...
Net-Buzz: recent discussions and commentary from the blogosphere
24 June 2010 | assessment, blogs, civ society, gdp, gender equality indices, indicators, news itemsEITI Blog: The nature of multi-stakeholder initiatives A sample of recent or ongoing online discussions on governance assessment-related issues. EITI Blog: The nature of multi-...
Blogpost: new issue of Int Journal of Government Financial Management discusses public sector audits (PFMblog, 18 June 2010)
21 June 2010 | anti-corruption, blogs, public admin, publicationAs usual the Journal covers a wide range of issue relating to public financial management especially in developing countries. [...] Our next two papers consider two aspects of public sector audit....
Blogpost: open data doesn't empower communities (internet.artizans, 18 June 2010)
21 June 2010 | access-to-data, blogs, power analysis, social accountability, transparencyOpen data doesn't empower communities. I'm not saying open data is a bad thing, but we need to highlight the gap between the semantic web and social impact. Otherwise we'll continue to get swept...
Blogpost: Mobile phones and governance tracking (Accountability 2.0, 14 June 2010)
15 June 2010 | blogs, case studies, toolkitAt Transparency International, we are working hard to get a couple of pilots on using mobile phones in anti-corruption work out this year. Related to this, I just came across this very useful Sida...
Blogpost/Report: Corruption in Afghanistan (CIPE, 14 June 2010)
15 June 2010 | afghanistan, blogs, citizen report cards, corruption, fragilityThe Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) Development Blog provides coverage of CIPE's organizational themes as they play out in the media worldwide and in its work overseas. These...
Blogpost: Benchmark to Monitor Public Services (WorldBank, 9 June 2010)
10 June 2010 | accountability, blogs, citizen report cards, citizens charter, community scorecards, public admin, social accountabilityThe demand driven accountability approach puts citizens in charge of monitoring public services. But can ordinary citizens easily access public data against which they can monitor quality of...
A Guide to Advocate for Statistical Strategies (CoP-MfDR-Africa, 7 June 2010)
07 June 2010 | advocacy, blogs, how-to, nso, paris 21How to have policy-makers convinced of the advantages of effectively implementing a National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) and scale-up support to statistical capacity building?...
What is everyone saying about GDP as an indicator to measure well-being? (Wikiprogress, 27 May 2010)
27 May 2010 | blogs, gdp, human dev, well-beingWikiprogress: What is everyone saying about GDP as an indicator to measure well-being? http://bit.ly/bWBgGR