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The Future Role of Civil Society project was launched in June 2012 with the desire to explore the rapidly evolving space in which civil society actors operate. The project focuses on two central questions: − What might the contextual environment for civil society look like in 2030? − How might models of engagement for civil society, business, government and international organizations evolve in these new contexts?The report is designed to be interactive. While it provides a high-level more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 24, 2013

How ICT is Helping Farmers and Combatting Climate Change

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Greenhouse gases from agriculture account for over ten percent of total emissions globally, roughly equivalent to the entire global transport sector. Meanwhile, it is estimated that agricultural production will need to increase by about 70% by 2050 to keep pace with global population growth. What’s more, the real impacts of climate change on the agricultural sector are likely going to be hardest felt in many of those countries whose people rely on agriculture most for their more...

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Moushumi Biswas to Open Development Technology Alliance on April 24, 2013

Open Data Spells Success

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The thing about Data.gov is that it’s really not about the data, it’s about how the data makes a difference. Examples abound. Public data is the basis for our weather services – we get our weather reports ultimately thanks to the work of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration whose data is here for you, for free, on Data.gov. GPS and wayfinding is the same thing, thanks to free satellite data.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 24, 2013

Increasing Citizen Partnership in Local Governance: Latin America

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Local citizen participation has long been acknowledged as a useful tool to enhance public policies: it improves policies’ responsiveness to the population’s needs and quality as citizens make creative and innovative proposals to solve development challenges. In the last two decades, countries such as Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay and Peru have developed new mechanisms to foster citizen participation at the local level by creating citizen participation bodies, or what we term here more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 24, 2013

Transforming Multilateralism: Innovation on a Global Stage

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The Open Government Partnership seeks to build more transparent, effective, and accountable governments that empower citizens and respond to their democratic aspirations

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Moushumi Biswas to Open Development Technology Alliance on April 24, 2013

Zambia and the OGP: Is It Realy Worth The Effort ?

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Is there a movement towards open government? Certainly the plethora of countries signing-up-to or expressing interest in joining the Open Government Partnership (OGP) indicates that there might be. One of these is Zambia, where there is mounting pressure to join the OGP initiative. Only last month the UK’s High Commissioner to Zambia in his speech on the ‘3Ts’ and the G8, noted that the UK would welcome Zambia’s candidature.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 24, 2013

Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and The Carribean

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There is growing recognition by civil society and governments that access to information, participation and justice in environmental issues are essential for advancing towards environmental protection and sustainable development. In order to progress towards sustainable development, the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean need to work on developing policies based on a more informed, participatory process (United Nations, 2012).

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Sonia Hossain on April 24, 2013

‘Nowhere to go’: Forced evictions in Haiti’s displacement camps

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Forced evictions in Haiti are worsening the already desperate situation of thousands of people still living in displacement camps more than three years after the devastating earthquake of January 2010, Amnesty International said as it launched the report ‘Nowhere to go’: Forced evictions in Haiti’s camps for displaced people. “Appeals from Amnesty International and other NGOs to halt the forced evictions have fallen on deaf ears - not only has the Haitian government not put an end to them, but more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 24, 2013

Syria: Humanitarian Bulletin, Issue 23, 9-22 April 2013

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HIGHLIGHTS: UN estimates that nearly one in three Syrians require assistance. Cross-line inter-agency convoys bring aid to 300,000 people in Talbiseh and Aleppo. About 550,000 children receive vaccinations. Number of Syrian refugees could reach 3.5 million by end-2013.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 24, 2013

Assessing and Improving China’s E-waste Problem

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Waste not want not. Unfortunately, this old adage has been overshadowed by a growing torrent of global demand for the latest and greatest consumer gadgets. Rapid technological advances, expanding product lines and planned obsolescence are pressuring consumers to opt for “out with the not-so-old and in with the new”. So what happens to the growing pile of “old”? China, one of the leading producers and consumers of the world’s electric and electronic equipment (EEE), is also a primary more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 24, 2013

Brazil ́s Action Plan within the Open Government Partnership

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Brazil’s participation in the Open Government Partnership (OGP) reflects the country’s commitment to strengthen transparency of Government actions. Following this introduction is a self-assessment report of the initiatives undertaken by the country in its first Action Plan within the OGP. This is a second version of the report, developed out of recommendations from the Independent Review Mechanism of OGP and comments from society after the publication of the initial report, which was available more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 24, 2013

Sharing clean energy knowledge via (Linked) Open Data

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The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) [1] located in Vienna, Austria is a non-profit market catalyst for clean energy in developing countries and emerging markets. For more than 6 years, REEEP has been operating the clean energy information portal http://www.reegle.info [2], which provides easy access to high quality information on clean energy. This access is provided by taking advantage of (linked) open data sources, by publishing all data in open and machine readable more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 24, 2013

Re-imagining India with new data

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Imagine a presentation that shows how millions of dollars of World Bank money are operating in one area of one Indian city alone. At the Open Data Camp in Bangalore, held over the weekend of 2-3 March, this visualisation of data from the World Bank project in Bommanahalli, Bangalore got everyone’s attention, in part because of the sheer monitoring opportunity the data afforded citizens. Getting data and getting it clean was the theme of this two-day camp that afforded a fascinating glimpse of more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 24, 2013

Opening Open Data

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The author's contribution to the 'Open Data on the Web' workshop is to add the perspective of a graphic and information designer, data visualisation expert, maker and inventor. This paper briefly outlines the author's viewpoint on Open Data, mainly arguing that it is important to put it in a human context. According to the author, designers are a significant part of the Open Data movement. The author outlines which tools should be provided to them in order to make meaningful and relevant Open more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 24, 2013

The M&E and measuring effectiveness of climate finance – an overview of resources

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Climate finance draws on an array of public and private sources and flows through multiple channels, but how to deal with it from an M&E point? What do we see as ‘climate finance’? How to measure its effectiveness? We just recently added a Climate Investments Fund-page, (http://www.seachangecop.org/cif-me) which will be developed over time. We also added a ‘climate finance’ tag (http://www.seachangecop.org/taxonomy/term/618) to our online resource library, keeping track of climate finance/ more...

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Dennis Bours on April 23, 2013

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