Campaign Art: Enough Food For Everyone IF-Thank You
People, Spaces, Deliberation bloggers present exceptional campaign art from all over the world. These examples are meant to inspire. Enough Food For Everyone IF campaign - Thank You Source: Enough...
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Citizens Against Corruption: What Works? Findings from 200 Projects in 53...
I attended a panel + booklaunch on the theme of ‘Citizens Against Corruption’ at the ODI last week. After all the recent agonizing and self-doubt of the results debate (‘really, do we know anything...
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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.NDI TechMobile Phones and Violent Conflict - Is there a Connection?“Over the past several years, a...
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Aid and Complex Systems cont’d: Timelines, Incubation Periods and Results
I’m at one of those moments where all conversations seem to link to each other, I see complex systems everywhere, and I’m wondering whether I’m starting to lose my marbles. Happily, lots of other...
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Quote of the Week: Alexis de Tocqueville
"It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each...
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The Legislator’s Dilemma: Following or Moving against the Tide of Perverse...
Listening to an expert discussion of the role of elected representatives in social accountability interventions at a recent event hosted by the Mwananchi Governance Programme and CIVICUS in...
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Media (R)evolutions: Only a Third of the World's Population Is Online
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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Are Illicit Drugs a Development Issue and If So, What Should We Do about It?
I spent last Wednesday morning taking drugs seriously. OK that’s the last of the lame do/take drug jokes. What I actually did was have a coffee with Danny Kushlick and Martin Powell of the Transform...
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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.iRevolutionGoogle Blimps for Disaster Response"A blimp is a floating airship that does not have any...
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‘Squeezed’: How are Poor People Adjusting to Life in a Time of Food Price...
Ace IDS researcher Naomi Hossain introduces the first results of a big Oxfam/IDS research project on food price volatility If the point of development is to make the Third World more like the First,...
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The 3rd Summer Institute on Communication and Governance Kicks Off!
The 3rd Summer Institute kicked off on Tuesday, May 27 2013 with participants from over ten countries with diverse professional backgrounds, ranging from government, multilateral agencies and NGOs....
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Quote of the Week: Chris R. Albon
"The Web is quickly coming to the point that everything you say or do online can be used against you in the court of public opinion. Some say we could be looking at the end of forgetting, where the...
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Will the Post-2015 Report Make a Difference? Depends What Happens Next
An edited version of this piece, written with Stephen Hale, appeared on the Guardian Poverty Matters site on Friday Reading the report of the High Level Panel induces a sense of giddy optimism. It is a...
View ArticleCampaign Art: The Life You Can Save in 3 Minutes
People, Spaces, Deliberation bloggers present exceptional campaign art from all over the world. These examples are meant to inspire. Source: The Life You Can SaveFollow PublicSphereWB on Twitter
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Accountability on the Internet: What’s the Role of the New Information...
The internet has certainly changed the process of how information and news is filtered and by whom. A process that was carried out by traditional media for decades is today largely managed by a few...
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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.OneHow to Start a Transparency Revolution“In less than two weeks, on 17th and 18th June in Lough...
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When/How Does Aid Help Africa’s Public Services Work Better?
I seem to be spending most of my life at the ODI at the moment, largely because it is producing an apparently endless stream of really useful research papers and seminars. Yesterday saw a combo of the...
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Quote of the Week: Theodore Dalrymple
“Pessimists are of two types, the catastrophists, that is to say the types who look up in the starry heavens and see (metaphorically) only asteroids in the sky racing towards us to wipe us out as the...
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De-coding Gender-based Violence
The brutal assault on a young woman in Delhi on December 16 last year, and the protests that followed in its wake spotlighted global attention on the issue of gender-based violence (GBV), a malady that...
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The E-workers
The Economist recently wrote about the "workforce in the cloud" and how the global mobile workforce is being tapped by online talent marketplaces like Elance.com and oDesk.com. This has allowed...
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