Making All Voices Count: Recent submissions
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Engaging with local communities to prevent violence: what role for ICTs?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-08)The peacebuilding field is full of examples of technology use that failed to live up to expectations. Effective conflict early warning and prevention approaches depend on building and strengthening relationships. The ... -
Women and the right of access to information in Bangladesh: executive summary
(The Carter Center, 2016-05)To demonstrate the hypothesis that women are not able to access information with the same facility (frequency, ease, and rate of success) as men, The Carter Center developed a quantitative and qualitative study. The ... -
Women and the right of access to information in Bangladesh: a mixed-methods study
(The Carter Center, 2016-05)The following report outlines the findings of a study conducted by the Carter Center’s Global Access to Information Program and the Manusher Jonno Foundation, with support from the Bangladesh Information Commissioner and ... -
Privacy, anonymity, visibility: dilemmas in tech use by marginalised communities
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-07-15)This paper synthesises reflections and learnings from two studies, in Kenya and South Africa, about how marginalised communities – lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) people in Nairobi, Kenya, and economically ... -
Privacy, anonymity, visibility: dilemmas in tech use by marginalised communities. Summary, findings and reflections
(IDS, 2016-07-15)This summary presents findings and reflections from two studies of how marginalised communities use technologies commonly applied in tech for transparency and accountability (T4T&A) work, and the limits of this use. The ... -
Accountability ecosystems: directions of accountability and points of engagement
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-06)Accountability, the obligation of those in power to take responsibility for their actions, is a process involving relationships between different actors (in state and society) and mechanisms, and is influenced by many ... -
Transforming governance: how can technology help reshape democracy?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-06)Around the world, people are asking how we can make democracy work in new and better ways. We are frustrated by political systems in which voting is the only legitimate political act, concerned that many republics don’t ... -
Getting strategic: vertically integrated approaches
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-06)Holding power to account requires understanding where power lies and how it is exercised. It entails understanding how decisions are made, who makes them and what decision criteria are used to make them. Vertically integrated ... -
Transforming governance: what role for technologies?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-02)The technological innovations of the last two decades – cell phones, tablets, open data and social media – mean that governments and citizens can interact like never before. Around the world, in different contexts, citizens ... -
Why is it so hard for non-state actors to be heard? Inside Tanzania’s education policies
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-06)In this brief, Lucas Katera looks at the barriers Tanzanian citizens and other nonstate actors face in trying to make the state listen to their voices. He focused his research on the design and implementation of primary ... -
Has Kenya’s ICT revolution triggered more citizen participation?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-06)In this brief, Nyambura Salome surveys the extent to which Kenya’s information and communications technology (ICT) revolution transforms e-government – implementing decisions with the help of ICTs – into e-governance – ... -
What happens to policy when policy champions move on? The case of welfare in South Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-06)In this brief, Aalia Cassim refers to the role of policy champions in driving the 1997 reform of South Africa’s welfare policy, which established a grant system that today covers about 16 million recipients. She goes on ... -
How does government responsiveness come about? The politics of accountability in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-06)In this brief, Terence Darko looks at the development of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and examines the extent to which urgency contributed to an increase in political accountability. He notices that ... -
The Question of Inclusiveness: A think piece for the Making All Voices Count programme
(IDS, 2014-06)This think piece draws from a desk review of experience in ICT-mediated citizen engagement, and an exchange of ideas in an e-dialogue between practitioners and scholars in late January 2014. The review takes in scholarly ... -
On Speaking, Mediation, Representation and Listening: A think piece for the Making All Voices Count programme
(IDS, 2014-06)This think piece focuses on ‘voice’ within the Making All Voices Count framework. It reflects on experiences, debates, assumptions, and questions about what ‘voice’ is and how it can be supported, with a particular focus ... -
Government Responsiveness: A think piece for the Making All Voices Count programme
(IDS, 2014-06)This think piece is based on a review of recent experience conducted between October and December 2013 and a series of e-Dialogues in January 2014. It is an individual reflection on what we found - and did not find - about ... -
Making All Voices Count Research and Evidence Strategy
(IDS, 2015-04)Making All Voices Count is a citizen engagement and accountable governance programme. It aims to harness the transformative potential of unusual partnerships and innovative applications of communication technologies to ... -
How can ICT initiatives be designed to improve rural water supply?
(IDS, 2016-04)Access to water supply around the world is increasing, but poor sustainability of water supply services remains a key barrier, particularly in rural areas. In response to this, a growing number of information and communication ... -
Sometimes it is about the tech: choosing tools in South African and Kenyan transparency and accountability initiatives
(IDS, 2016-03-31)This report, produced under the Making All Voices Count programme, investigates the processes through which organisations in South Africa and Kenya choose and implement digital technology tools to use in transparency and ... -
Opening Governance
(Institute of Development Studies, 2015-01-25)Open government and open data are new areas of research, advocacy and activism that have entered the governance field alongside the more established areas of transparency and accountability. In this IDS Bulletin, articles ...