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Opportunity l Join the e-Frame Network!
14 November 2012 | measurement, opportunity, web resource, well-beingNOW it is possible to join the European Network on Measuring Progress, hosted by Wikiprogress. The aim of the Network is to connect stakeholders, practitioners, researchers, civil society...
South Africa l Africa's first fact-check website launched
08 November 2012 | africa, civil society, media, monitoring, nat initiative, south africa, web resourceAfrica Check, a fact-checking website devised by the AFP Foundation and run in partnership with the journalism department of the University of the Witwatersrand, was launched in Johannesburg on...
Time Distance Progress Chart of MDG implementation
20 September 2012 | mdgs, methodologies, methodology, statistics, visualisation, web resourceAnalysis of MDG implementation needs a clear distinction between the progress made in the world in the analysed period and still considerable delays in the implementation of the MDGs. Progress has...
Blogpost: Questions from Paris on Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations
12 July 2012 | blogpost, citizen monitoring, commentary, event, parliament, pmos, web resource[...] While some organizations have been around for years, it is only recently that an international network of Internet-centric PMOs has begun to coalesce. I was struck by how many organizations...
African Governance Assessment Platform
30 April 2012 | africa, web resourceBuilding on engagement and demand from the 2011 Africa Forum on Civil Society and Governance Assessments (http://tiny.cc/dakarforum), Forum Partners are exploring opportunities to develop the ...
Kazakhstan: Public Monitoring as Tool to Enhance Civil Society
24 April 2012 | cis, citizen monitoring, civ action, civ society, kazakhstan, web resourceInvolving people in the work of nongovernmental organizations, as well as broader social processes such as charity, monitoring, and budgetary planning, is among the priorities of the Civil Alliance...
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...
Opportunity: DevInfo Initiative Announces Call for DevInfo 7.0 Beta Testers
03 April 2012 | data-centric, database system, open access, software, web resource, web-applicationThe Global DevInfo Initiative remains on track to launch a new version of the DevInfo database system – DevInfo 7.0 – in mid-2012. DevInfo 7.0 will be a cross-browser compatible web application...
South African: Corruption Watch receives 500 reports in first month
19 March 2012 | africa, corruption, initiative, south africa, web resourceSouth African civil society initiative Corruption Watch received more than 500 complaints from the public in the first month of its existence, with municipalities, traffic cops and the health sector...
UNESCO World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education: A call to action
13 March 2012 | blogpost, children, education, gender, web resourceThe World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education comprises about 120 maps, charts and tables featuring a wide range of sex-disaggregated data and gender indicators produced by the UNESCO Institute...