Category: Social Accountability

Open Government, Post2015, Social Accountability

Post-2015 Has Provided Us All With A “Big Tent”

In their paper The Benefits of a Big Tent: Opening Up Government in Developing Countries, J Goldstein…

Citizen Engagement, Open Government, Social Accountability
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Designing Sustainable Citizen Engagement Initiatives

Recently I lost a relative in what seemed to be a case of profit-first-service-later after he was…

Citizen Engagement, Open Government, Social Accountability

Build it and the government will come: The problem with Civic Tech.

Those of us who have been involved in open data and the broader open government space may…

Social Accountability
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Open Data. Cui Bono.

Bandying latin phrases around maybe a sign I have had too much coffee to drink. Nevertheless, I…

Citizen Engagement, ICT4D, Peer Review Mechanisms, Social Accountability
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We Need Politicians for Social Accountability Mechanisms to Function

Peer reviews have been in existence for a very long time. The field of science has long…

Peer Review Mechanisms, Social Accountability
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Is it Possible to Harmonize Development Plans?

I had just put out a piece that explores whether countries in Africa are harmonizing the different…