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"Check My School" and the Power of Openness in Development
There has been a lot of buzz lately around open development, and new initiatives seem to be popping up everywhere. My colleague Maya talks about what open development means exactly in her blog and...
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When Budget Disclosure is Not Enough
Deliberations around public budgets can sometimes bring out the worst in parliamentarians but impassioned responses rarely come from citizens themselves. Perhaps it is because budgets come in the form...
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Innovations for Development: 2013 Wish List
A recent Poverty Matters blog post in the Guardian noted that mobile technologies and social media are creating cheap ways for citizens to interact with their governments and that development projects...
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#5 from 2013: Using Twitter to Run Cities Better: Governance @SF311
Our Top Ten Blog Posts by readership in 2013 This post was originally published on January 24, 2013 It will soon be nearly four years since then San Francisco mayor, Gavin Newsom visited Twitter...
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#3 from 2013: Who is Listening? Who is Responding? Can Technology Innovations...
Our Top Ten blog posts by readership in 2013 This post was originally published on August 15, 2013 It was a sunny, hot Saturday afternoon and I mingled with farmers, community leaders, coffee producers...
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Media (R)evolutions: U-Report mobilizes youth via SMS and social media
New developments and curiosities from a changing global media landscape: People, Spaces, Deliberation brings trends and events to your attention that illustrate that tomorrow's media environment will...
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