Making All Voices Count: Recent submissions
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Country overview Uruguay
(IT for Change, 2017)Uruguay is a particular case within Latin American in terms of how strong, stable and traditional its democratic institutions are. The country has also seen recent implementation of policies to promote development by the ... -
Country overview South Africa
(IT for Change, 2017)South Africa offers wide spread ICT infrastructure in the country and adoption is high amongst the population. With greater ICT availability, there is a growing possibility for citizens to hold government accountable, ... -
Country overview Colombia
(IT for Change, 2017)In Colombia, technological modernisation coexists with activities supported through obsolete technologies and conservative mindsets. The country is in a permanent struggle between tradition and innovation, and as the country ... -
Urna de Cristal, Colombia
(IT for Change, 2017)Urna De Cristal (UDC) is an e-participation platform launched by the presidency of Colombia in 2010. The platform allows citizens to raise queries/concerns to any government department/agency, put in requests for grievance ... -
Country overview Philippines
(IT for Change, 2017)The recent and rapid rise of digital technologies among citizens and civil society organizations (CSOs) offers extensive possibilities of strengthening citizen voice not just on political issues, but also regarding the ... -
Trust, responsiveness and sustainability in complaints systems: Transparency International’s experience with Uwajibikaji Pamoja
(Instiute of Development Studies, 2017-11)Kenya’s arid and semi-arid regions have faced recurrent drought, famine, and inter-community conflicts. High levels of need have led to large humanitarian relief programmes involving government and national and international ... -
Tech for governance programmes in Kenya: what is left of the conducive tech environment, and where to next?
(2017-10)Making All Voices Count has been a grant-making programme supporting tech for accountable governance initiatives, which in this report are defined as “projects, programmes and campaigns which use information and communications ... -
Indonesia’s Village Law: enabler or constraint for more accountable governance?
(2017-10)Village underdevelopment is considered a major contributor to Indonesia’s high levels of inequality. Law No.6 / 2014 (‘Village Law’) on villages’ governance and finance is regarded as the most progressive policy in the ... -
Evolving an open e-governance index for network societies
(2017-10)The Open e-Governance Index (OeGI) is a framework for measuring open e-governance, developed and tested in four Asian countries in 2012. This report discusses the second phase of OeGI project, which examined whether the ... -
Doing Digital Development Differently: lessons in adaptive management from technology for governance initiatives in Kenya
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017)Development projects don’t always work as planned. This has long been acknowledged by those in the sector, and has led to several approaches that seek to solve complex development problems through enabling and encouraging ... -
decidim.barcelona, Spain
(IT for Change, 2017)In September 2015, Madrid – the capital of Spain – initiated a participatory democracy project, Decide Madrid (Madrid decides), to enable participatory strategic planning for the municipality. Six month after, Barcelona – ... -
Country overview Brazil
(IT for Change, 2017)The inclusion of social participation concerns in public policies in Brazil reflects a contemporary approach to democracy, according to which modern citizens should be able to contribute to the creation of laws and policies, ... -
Country overview Netherlands
(IT for Change, 2017)Citizen engagement in the Netherlands is formalised at both national and local levels. The legal avenues for citizen engagement at the national level consist primarily of agenda-setting and advisory direct voting mechanisms ... -
Marco Civil vs.Copyright Reform: a comparative study
(IT for Change, 2017)In 2009, the Brazilian Ministry of Justice partnered with the academic organisation Center for Technology and Society of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, to build a platform for a public consultation about a draft bill on ... -
Participatory mapping in e-Thekwini Municipality, South Africa
(IT for Change, 2017)Greater ICT availability in South Africa suggests a growing possibility for citizens to use mobile phones and Internet to hold government accountable. However, there is a paucity of literature that maps ICT-mediated ... -
Open Government Plan 2011-205, Uruguay
(IT for Change, 2017)The Open Government National Action Plan (NAP) development and roll-out processes analysed in this paper reveal Uruguay’s effort to enable new ways of agency in the digital era. NAPs are developed as a result of a political ... -
Open data and citizen engagement, Philippines
(IT for Change, 2017)Benigno Aquino III ran for the position of President of the Philippines in 2010, with a campaign slogan of “Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap" (when there is no corruption, there is no poverty). Following his win, his ... -
Ons Geld citizen initiative, Netherlands
(IT for Change, 2017)Ons Geld (Our Money) is a Dutch citizen initiative seeking to put the question of money production on the public agenda. Ons Geld pushed for legislation that would ensure commercial banks cannot create new money when ... -
Competing to deliver? Political workers and service delivery in Pakistan
(2017-10)Why do some citizens receive better municipal services than others? Comparative political economy is deeply concerned with this question, but most answers so far suggest that unequal access to these services is determined ... -
Open mapping from the ground up: learning from Map Kibera
(Instiute of Development Studies, 2017)In Nairobi in 2009, 13 young residents of the informal settlement of Kibera mapped their community using OpenStreetMap, an online mapping platform. This was the start of Map Kibera, and eight years of ongoing work to ...
