Category: Citizen Engagement

Citizen Engagement, Open Government, Uncategorized

Happy Africa Day. A Luta Continua.

“We, the Heads of African States and Governments assembled in the City of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Convinced…

Citizen Engagement, Open Government

OGP Needs Parliamentarians

I recently had the honour of attending a Legislative Openness Working Group meeting in Chile organised by…

Citizen Engagement, Open Government, Post2015

The Boring Necessities of the Data Revolution

Let’s not kid ourselves. Although many of us are still trying to figure out what the data…

Citizen Engagement, Open Government, Social Accountability

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…

Citizen Engagement, open

Fragmentation Isn’t Helping Civil Society

There’s the open data crowd with their glitzy visualisations and apps. Then there’s the Freedom of Information…

Citizen Engagement, ICT4D, Peer Review Mechanisms, Social Accountability

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…