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Podcast l Accountability and open government
25 February 2013 | accountability, citizen empowerment, open government, podcast, technology, transparencyIn the latest edition of Development Drums, Rakesh Rajani and Martin Tisné discuss accountability and open government. The episode explores the idea of openness – meaning more than just...
What the Knight News Challenge on Open Government Tells Us About Open Government
19 February 2013 | citizen engagement, civic hacking, online debate, open government, technologyEarlier this week, the Knight Foundation opened a new Knight News Challenge, this time focused on promoting innovative approaches to "open government." The announcement has received quite a bit of...
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...
Blogpost: Helping Politicians Keep Their Promises
16 April 2012 | blogpost, commentary, executive, latin america, parliament, performance review, technology, web resource[...] When I sat down with Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente Director Felipe Heusser last month to take a look at the new site called “From What Was Said to What Was Done“, my first question was: “is...
IRC webinar – discussing the use of FLOW for monitoring WASH service delivery in Ghana « Gadgets for mobile
07 February 2012 | citizen monitoring, service delivery, technology, water, web resource, webinarOn Wednesday 1 February 2012, Marieke Adank аnd Nicolas Dickinson frοm IRC International Water аnd Sanitation Centre, shared thеіr experiences wіth thе monitoring οf water services іn three districts...
Blogost: Myneta.info: India’s Technology Transition From Software Giant to Fighting Corruption (WB, 4 April 2011)
04 April 2011 | access-to-info, asia pacific, blogpost, country initiative, india, parliament, technology, transparency, web resourceWhen India first started using technology for national development, it used technology to build a huge software industry which helped the economy grow in the 1990s. In the decades that followed, with...
Blogpost: Online Source of Accountability Tools FAQs (One World Trust, 5 Nov 2010)
08 November 2010 | blogpost, database, social accountability, technology, web resourceSince our online source of accountability tools for organisations conducting policy relevant research was released in September we have received several questions from various users. After responding...
Mobile Mapping for Rapid Field Assessment of Health Infrastructure in Indonesia (MobileActive.org, 4 Oct 2010)
04 October 2010 | asia pacific, data collection, health, indonesia, initiative, local, mapping, technologyThe rural population of eastern Indonesia generally has limited access to health services due to rugged topography, poor roads and limited health resources. Moreover, there are no comprehensive...