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Post-2015 l Crowdsourcing the next global development agenda
16 May 2013 | crowd-sourced, ict, mobile phones, post-2015, poverty reduction, targetsThe United Nations is using digital media and mobile phone technology to enable people from across the world to take part in setting the next generation of anti-poverty goals. For the first time in...
Philippines: Check-My-School: Monitoring Made Easy with Dedicated Volunteers and ICT Tools
27 February 2013 | asia pacific, education, ict, monitoring, public serviceThe quality of education in the public sector often suffers due to poor services like lack of classrooms, textbooks and toilets. A project called Check My School uses mobile and Internet technology...
Using Twitter to Run Cities Better: Governance @SF311
02 February 2013 | accountability, citizen reporting, ict, local governance, open government, transparency, web2.0It will soon be nearly four years since then San Francisco mayor, Gavin Newsom visited Twitter headquarters. He told Biz Stone (one of the Twitter founders) about how someone from the city had...
US l Uncover the Data Around You
14 December 2012 | ict, launch, open data, statistics, usaSitegeist was created by the Sunlight Foundation with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and is the third in a series of National Data Apps. The first two National Data Apps are...
Conference l 2014 UN E-Government Survey: e-Government as an Enabler for Collaborative Governance
05 December 2012 | e-governance, ict, methodologyThe Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) is organizing an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on the...
India l For RTE grievances dial 1
04 December 2012 | citizen monitoring, ict, india, mobile phones, public service deliveryAccountability Initiative An essential pre-requisite to any rights-based approach is the necessity of ensuring its enforceability. What does a citizen do in case their rights are violated or not...
Blogpost: Accountability is Based on Relationships, but Data Helps Too | Exploring the interactions among public opinion, governance, and the public sphere
09 November 2012 | accountability strategy, blogpost, citizen monitoring, debate, ict, open data, service delivery"Imagine this: A health care worker or parent in a village, with a laptop or mobile device, can access development knowledge in real time through geocoding and geomapping. She can see which schools...
Web Foundation Launches the Web Index
17 September 2012 | access-to-info, citizen empowerment, citizen engagement, global index, ict, technologyThe World Wide Web Foundation today launched the Web Index – a new country-by-country global study that measures the impact of the Web on the world’s people and nations. Web inventor and Web...
Research Consultancy: Comparative Research on ICTs and Governance Data in Arab Region
14 September 2012 | arab states, consultancy, ict, opportunity, research, technologyUNDP Regional Center in Cairo and Oslo Governance Centre seek a consultant to conduct comparative research on ICT and governance data initiatives. This research will support the Regional Governance...
Internet Use and Democratic Demands: A Multinational, Multilevel Model of Internet Use and Citizen Attitudes about Democracy – Journalist's Resource: Research for Reporting, from Harvard Shorenstein Center
16 April 2012 | access-to-info, civ action, comparative, correlation, ict, publication, research, social accountability, study, technologyThe global relationship between the Internet and democracy has become a subject of great scholarly interest and debate. Prior research has focused on national Internet penetration and use rates and...