Making All Voices Count: Recent submissions
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Innovations to engage youth in accountability work in Liberia
(Instiute of Development Studies, 2017)In Liberia’s post-conflict context, there is a new generation of young people coming of age who did not experience the conflict. The Accountability Lab, a civil society organisation that works with youth in Liberia around ... -
Tools, platforms and mechanisms to support accountability to disaster-affected populations in the Philippines
(Instiute of Development Studies, 2017-09)When Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines in 2013, a number of national and local government tools, platforms and mechanisms were put in place to support the coordination of national government efforts to respond to the ... -
Voice or chatter? Making ICTs work for transformative engagement: research report summary
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017)What are the conditions in democratic governance that make information and communication technology (ICT)-mediated citizen engagement transformative? While substantial scholarship exists on the role of the Internet and ... -
Voice or chatter? Making ICTs work for transformative engagement
(IT for Change, 2017)What are the conditions in democratic governance that make information and communication technology (ICT)-mediated citizen engagement transformative? While substantial scholarship exists on the role of the Internet and ... -
Do more empowered citizens make more accountable states? Power and legitimacy in legal empowerment initiatives in Kenya and South Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-09)Many marginalised groups face difficulties in accessing essential services, such as housing, health care and water – even though their rights to these services are enshrined in international and often in national laws. ... -
Budget oversight and accountability in Nigeria: what incentivises digital and non-digital citizens to engage?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-07)Opening up the budgets of economies such as Nigeria’s continues to be a challenge, and most citizens remain in the dark on how the budget is formulated and executed. One obstacle is citizens’ lack of access to information ... -
Pathways to accountability from the margins: reflections on participatory video practice
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-07)Two of the central challenges in building accountability for marginalised people are how to reach and meaningfully involve the most excluded, and how to establish the kinds of relationships that mean they can achieve, ... -
Translating complex realities through technologies: lessons about participatory accountability from South Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-07)Accountability is a complex issue in South Africa. The country has high levels of inequality, and marginalised groups struggle to make themselves heard by those in power. Yet the issue is further complicated by an interacting ... -
When top down visions meet grassroots digital activism: notes from Netherlands
(IT for Change, 2017)The Netherlands provides several avenues for citizen participation in formal policy-making, and is often described as a global leader in e-participation and e-government. Yet, even in a context where citizen participation ... -
ICT-facilitated accountability and engagement in health systems: a review of Making All Voices Count mHealth for accountability projects
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-07)Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and mHealth innovations hold great potential to improve health systems and health outcomes while at the same time enhancing citizen engagement and accountability. Yet there ... -
Accountability in Health Systems and the Potential of mHealth
(IDS, 2017-07)The rapid spread of information and communication technologies (ICTs) (and of mobile phones in particular) across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has generated considerable excitement in development circles ... -
Building safe spaces to support young women’s participation in local governance in Indonesia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-06)Barriers to young (especially unmarried) women’s participation in public spaces include the prevailing view that doing so violates social norms, young women’s often low level of education, and family expectations. Many ... -
New pathways for citizen agency: Open Government National Action Plans in Uruguay
(IT for Change, 2017)Since the implementation of the first Open Government Partnership National Action Plan (OGP-NAP) in Uruguay in 2012, open government has evolved from a focus on e-government that was non-participatory, towards a ... -
Democratic accountability in the digital age
(IT for Change, 2016)There is, this Brief argues, a new governance paradigm emerging, characterised by the rise of "governance by networks" and "rule by data". This flux, say the authors, is marked by a hollowing out of the state, replacement ... -
A citizenship in crisis: voice, welfare and other contestations in the digital state
(IT for Change, 2017)The vision, design and implementation of e-governance in India with its attendant “datafication” leads to many pertinent questions about the changing nature of governance and state-citizen engagement. This Brief argues ... -
Open Data in Philippines: from access to awareness
(IT for Change, 2017)As a democratic country, the Philippines values citizen participation in ensuring that people's voices are heard and that they are part of important decision-making processes. ICT-mediated and enabled participation plays ... -
Digital mapping in Warwick Junction and the remaking of ‘space’: notes from South Africa
(2017)There have been significant shifts in the policy environment of South Africa that are transforming the way citizen engagement takes place in the country. However, high income inequality in South Africa extends to the ... -
Citizen participation and the rise of the Open Source City in Spain
(IT for Change, 2017)In the public sector, Spain has made big efforts not to lag behind digital leaders in terms of public e-readiness and e-government, but the country's economic and political frameworks have dragged it downwards in global ... -
When digital democracy falls short: insights from Colombia
(IT for Change, 2017)Colombian e-government development has been internationally recognised by the UN as a leader in Latin America, and one of the 20 most developed nations of the world in the area. However, ICT tools and services such as ... -
A tale of two consultations: online participatory practices in Brazil
(IT for Change, 2017)When it comes to ICT-mediated governance participation in Brazil, Internet penetration still remains a major challenge, with only around half of homes having connectivity. Opportunities to influence public policy frameworks ...