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Group Privacy: the next generation of privacy problems | linnet taylor

2017-02-15T07:35:35-05:00

Using Social Media Data in International Development Research, Monitoring and Evaluation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region Research for Development Output - GOV.UK

2017-02-14T04:59:16-05:00

Right to Privacy in the Digital Age | Journal of Human Rights Practice | Oxford Academic

2017-02-07T09:42:25-05:00

» A user-centered design approach for ICT4D - ICT4D.at

2017-02-06T12:48:50-05:00

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Journalistic Disruption: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Journalistic Disruption: Digital Journalism: Vol 0, No 0

2017-02-02T08:34:15-05:00

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Journalistic Disruption: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Journalistic Disruption: Digital Journalism: Vol 0, No 0

this article explores the ethical principles that guide journalists who use UAVs, how they have worked within these ethical principles, and how they can serve as disruptive innovators. Semi-structured interviews with 13 UAV early adopters reveal that legal and regulatory restraints on UAVs facilitated the emergence of a new form of norm entrepreneur inside journalistic institutions.

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2017-01-04T09:55:52-05:00

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. Employing a survey-based methodology, a quantitative analysis was performed on the users of civic technology sites in the USA, UK, Kenya and South Africa. The primary question posed is whether the specific citizen monitoring actions facilitated by these sites cause a related effect in altering the extent to which citizens believe that governments are responsive to citizen-audit. The results indicate an enhancement in citizen efficacy and perceptions of government accountability.

Could data pay for global development? Introducing data financing for global good — Oxford Internet Institute

2017-01-03T11:27:33-05:00

Innovative ways to build peace in Syria | Creative Economy | British Council

2016-12-19T12:58:56-05:00

Innovative ways to build peace in Syria | Creative Economy | British Council

We commissioned Build Up to map current peacetech initiatives responding to the Syrian crisis and consider options for future work using technology for positive social change. The report ‘Innovative Peacebuilding in Syria: a scoping study of the strategic use of technology to build peace in the Syrian context’, which outlines the outcomes of the research, represents the first and only such mapping to date.

Developing transparency through digital means? Examining institutional responses to civic technology in Latin America | Rumbul | JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government

2016-12-19T08:39:47-05:00

Developing transparency through digital means? Examining institutional responses to civic technology in Latin America | Rumbul | JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government

The research explores empirical interview data gathered from government officials, public servants, campaigners and NGO's involved in the development and implementation of civic technologies in Chile, Argentina and Mexico. The findings identify the impact these technologies have had upon government bureaucracy, and the existing barriers to openness created by institutionalised behaviours and norms. Institutionalised attitudes to information rights and conventions are shown to inform the approach that government bureaucracy takes in the provision of information, and institutionalised procedural behaviour is shown to be a factor in frustrating NGOs attempting to implement civic technology.

Open governance - the complexity of scale - Making All Voices Count - Open governance – the complexity of scale - Making All Voices Count

2016-12-06T07:34:35-05:00

Study: 80 percent of students can't tell the difference between an ad and a news story

2016-11-25T09:00:03-05:00

Data preparedness: connecting data, decision making and humanitarian response | Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

2016-11-23T04:43:41-05:00

Lessons from Yowzit's practitioner research - Making All Voices Count - Lessons from Yowzit’s practitioner research - Making All Voices Count

2016-11-23T04:41:24-05:00

Brochure-OECD-Centre-on-Green-Finance-and-Investment.pdf

2016-11-15T05:52:33-05:00

The Palm Oil Financing Handbook: Practical guidance on responsible financing and investing in the palm oil sector

2016-11-03T15:26:50-04:00

Active Ownership by Elroy Dimson, Oğuzhan Karakaş, Xi Li :: SSRN

2016-11-03T06:40:31-04:00

Active Ownership by Elroy Dimson, Oğuzhan Karakaş, Xi Li :: SSRN

We analyze an extensive proprietary database of corporate social responsibility engagements with U.S. public companies from 1999-2009. Engagements address environmental, social, and governance concerns. Successful (unsuccessful) engagements are followed by positive (zero) abnormal returns. Companies with inferior governance and socially conscious institutional investors are more likely to be engaged. Success in engagements is more probable if the engaged firm has reputational concerns and higher capacity to implement changes. Collaboration among activists is instrumental in increasing the success rate of environmental/social engagements.

Client voices in the humanitarian data stream – Rescue Aid – Medium

2016-11-01T06:19:36-04:00

New Research - Digital Identity in Emerging Markets - Caribou Digital

2016-10-28T12:24:20-04:00

New Research - Digital Identity in Emerging Markets - Caribou Digital

In countries such as India and Pakistan the Government is taking the lead to introduce digital identity, using their ability to drive people to register and reaching over a billion users very quickly. This creates a huge potential platform for the private sector to build other services on top, but we were intrigued as to how the private sector – from Facebook, to the mobile operators, to start ups – is starting to crowd into this space. Driving demand to digital identity services is hard – it’s not a product many users spontaneously ask for, it’s more a by-product or gateway to what they really want to do. Understanding, and responding to, demand drivers for identity-based digital products will be critical for these private sector actors.

Social Science Computer Review

2016-10-28T12:23:39-04:00

Social Science Computer Review

Hundreds of papers have been published using Twitter data, but no previous paper reports the digital divide among Twitter users. British Twitter users are younger, wealthier, and better educated than other Internet users, who in turn are younger, wealthier, and better educated than the off-line British population. American Twitter users are also younger and wealthier than the rest of the population, but they are not better educated. Twitter users are disproportionately members of elites in both countries. Twitter users also differ from other groups in their online activities and their attitudes. These biases and differences have important implications for research based on Twitter data. The unrepresentative characteristics of Twitter users suggest that Twitter data are not suitable for research where representativeness is important, such as forecasting elections or gaining insight into attitudes, sentiments, or activities of large populations. In general, Twitter data seem to be more suitable for corporate use than for social science research.

Technologies for Citizen Participation in Budgeting Processes

2016-10-28T11:44:53-04:00

Digital technology for health sector governance in low and middle income countries: a scoping review

2016-10-28T11:39:49-04:00

Digital technology for health sector governance in low and middle income countries: a scoping review

Poor governance impedes the provision of equitable and cost–effective health care in many low– and middle–income countries (LMICs). Although systemic problems such as corruption and inefficiency have been characterized as intractable, “good governance” interventions that promote transparency, accountability and public participation have yielded encouraging results. Mobile phones and other Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are beginning to play a role in these interventions, but little is known about their use and effects in the context of LMIC health care.

Vertically integrated civil society monitoring and advocacy in the Philippines - Making All Voices Count - Vertically integrated civil society monitoring and advocacy in the Philippines - Making All Voices Count

2016-10-28T11:38:14-04:00

Learning to Open Government: New Evidence to Inform the OGP's Efforts to Make Change Happen - www.globalintegrity.org

2016-10-28T11:20:42-04:00

Learning to Open Government: New Evidence to Inform the OGP's Efforts to Make Change Happen - www.globalintegrity.org

Global Integrity is excited to present the results of “Learning to Open Government,” a first of its kind examination of how the Open Government Partnership is playing out in practice in five countries: Albania, Costa Rica, Mexico, the Philippines, and Tanzania. We did not evaluate OGP, but our findings can help us, and pro-reform actors engaging with OGP, better understand whether and how OGP is contributing to country level reform. This project was undertaken with the support of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative.

Women and the right of access to information - Making All Voices Count - Women and the right of access to information - Making All Voices Count

2016-10-28T11:19:33-04:00

Women and the right of access to information - Making All Voices Count - Women and the right of access to information - Making All Voices Count

A new study from the Carter Center examines women’s right to information in Bangladesh. It asks whether women are able to access information with the same frequency, ease, and rate of success as men - and why.