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How can innovation improve access to quality learning?

How can innovation improve access to quality learning?

educationandtransition.org –

Last week, the Government of Denmark and UNICEF hosted the interactive discussion ‘Breaking barriers: Innovative partnerships creating exponential change in access to quality learning’. Moderated by journalist Femi Oke, the lively discussion brought together government representatives, leaders from the private sector, civil society and others to explore how innovations can surmount barriers for children in fulfilling their right to access to a quality education and, more importantly, quality more...

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Taleen Vartan on May 6, 2013

Acting Globally, Thinking Globally: Working at the global scale

Acting Globally, Thinking Globally: Working at the global scale

hausercenter.org –

Identifying and making decisions of global scope and significance is challenging for two related reasons. Compared with a national board, the issues become more abstract and more complex at a global level. Both these challenges take us beyond our comfort zone and we have to work at making these shifts. Getting clear about what the International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO) wants to become, getting a view of the whole global system, simplifying it well, and connecting it to reality on more...

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D C on May 6, 2013

Governance, Regulation and Innovation: Introducing New Studies

Governance, Regulation and Innovation: Introducing New Studies

mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de –

We introduce new studies that argue in favour of: (i) according a central role to governance and regulation as potential determinants of innovation; and (ii) analysing the effects of governance and regulation on innovation in conjunction with the effects of the market structure. These studies were presented at an international conference at the University of Greenwich in September 2011 and will be published as an edited book titled Governance, Regulation and Innovation: Theory and Evidence on more...

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D C on May 6, 2013

Violence against women and Post MDG Framework

Violence against women and Post MDG Framework

There should be a clear indicator or target on reducing violence against women and girls. In addition to being a violation of rights, violence against women and girls significantly undermines progress towards all the development goals, making them impossible to achieve.

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D C on May 6, 2013

Citizen voice and state accountability: Towards theories of change that embrace contextual dynamics

Citizen voice and state accountability: Towards theories of change that embrace contextual dynamics

The development industry is increasingly pushing practitioners to achieve results, and to do better in demonstrating what works, what does not, and explaining why. There is a growing interest in going beyond the measurement of results to being able to understand the basis for success or failure. Consequently, the development of explicit theories of change (ToCs) is starting to be viewed as central to this process, as a key part of what constitutes ‘rigour’ in impact evaluations. Citizen voice more...

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D C on May 6, 2013

Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2013

Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2013

donau-uni.ac.at –

The international Conference for e-Democracy and Open Government brings together e-democracy, e-participation and open government specialists working in academia, politics, government and business to critically analyse the innovations, issues, ideas and challenges in the networked societies of the digital age. The CeDEM represents a continuation and development of the E-democracy conference initiated in 2007. The Centre for E-Governance at the Danube University Krems has been organising more...

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D C on May 6, 2013

UK government adopts 'Cloud First' policy for public sector IT procurement

CloudStore

The formal introduction of a ‘Cloud First’ policy will drive wider adoption of cloud computing in the public sector, boosting business – and furthering savings and efficiencies – through the government CloudStore, which is a quicker, cheaper and more competitive way for the public sector to buy IT. In future, when procuring new or existing services, public sector organisations should consider and fully evaluate potential cloud solutions first – before they consider any other option. This more...

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A K to e-Procurement on May 6, 2013

ELLA BRIEF: Government Intervention to Strengthen the Ethanol Sector: Lessons from Brazil

ella.practicalaction.org –

The development of Brazil’s ethanol sector - its expansion, commercialisation, up-take, competitiveness and profitability - can largely be attributed to government policies. Strategies to make ethanol production more attractive, practices to enable the use of ethanol in automobiles, tax breaks and price fixing, are just some of the policies underpinning ethanol’s early commercial development in Brazil. Since the beginning of thePróalcool programme, the ethanol sector has depended more...

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Mark Turner on May 6, 2013

Community Radio Contributes in Shaping Bangladesh a Rural Republic

Community Radio Contributes in Shaping Bangladesh a Rural Republic Participatory development with a people-centric vision can make an effective promotion of community radios in Bangladesh. Aiming to achieve this objective --- a daylong Annual Planning and Review Meeting of Community Radio in Bangladesh was held on 30th April, 2013 at 10 am in IDB Auditorium, Dhaka. The event was organized by Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) under the support of more...

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AHM Bazlur Rahm... on May 6, 2013

Measuring knowledge management: Survey report for the KM4Dev innovation fund

This survey asked respondents to assess the level of monitoring and evaluation of knowledge management and knowledge brokering in their organisation. Only 20% of respondents indicated that their organisation had good or strong monitoring and evaluation systems in place for knowledge management, with 67% assessing their processes as weak or non-existent. Similarly for knowledge brokering, only 19% felt their organisation had good or strong monitoring and evaluation systems in place for knowledge more...

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D C on May 6, 2013

Open data and the charity sector: A perfect fit

Open data and the charity sector: A perfect fit

guardian.co.uk –

Government officials, charity leaders and senior figures from the open data movement said on Monday that the UK must foster an environment of collaboration and transparency in order to share best practices from the public and private sectors with nonprofit organisations. Third sector has for too long been misread as third place when it comes to nonprofits. Data has been widely touted as the future of the public and private sectors but when it comes to the adoption of big data initiatives, it is more...

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D C on May 6, 2013

Civil Society and Civic Engagement in the Arab States Region

Civil Society and Civic Engagement in the Arab States Region

The peoples’ movement that spread across North Africa and other parts of the Arab world in 2011 expressed a growing demand for government accountability, especially by the younger generation. It resulted in political transitions or reforms in half a dozen countries, affecting the lives of over 100 million people. In spite of significant gains, many countries still face pressing problems - civil unrest, rising unemployment, weak institutional capacities and challenges in ensuring fair elections more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 6, 2013

Lowering barriers to adoption isn’t just one approach – it’s critical to real ‘scale’

Lowering barriers to adoption isn’t just one approach – it’s critical to real ‘scale’

frontlinesms.com –

Critics of ICT for development (although this post applies at least as well to ICT in any field, including business) are keen to see technologies moving beyond endless pilots to rolling out at real ‘scale’. Organizations have to shift from whatever technology or communications channel was in use before, to that plus SMS, or maybe just SMS. This is complex enough, requiring users to think through what is different about SMS than their previous solution – there may be privacy and data integrity more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 6, 2013

Immersion, Service, and Civic Engagement in South Africa

Immersion, Service, and Civic Engagement in South Africa

poseidon01.ssrn.com –

The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which study abroad, immersion, and service can be combined in a way that is most beneficial for the students and the local communities where the students visit. To examine this issue, I focus on a few specific questions: What is the purpose of a study abroad experience? What is cultural immersion and is it an important goal for study abroad programs? What are the advantages and disadvantages of establishing a 'community service' project as more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 6, 2013

SEA Change double webinar “Monitoring and Evaluation for Community-Based Adaptation (CBA): Unpacking the CARE PMERL and ARCAB approaches and their inter-connection”, May 17 2013

SEA Change double webinar “Monitoring and Evaluation for Community-Based Adaptation (CBA): Unpacking the CARE PMERL and ARCAB approaches and their inter-connection”, May 17 2013

seachangecop.org –

SEA Change, CARE and ARCAB are collaboratively developing two webinars on Friday May 17 that focus on two approaches to monitoring and evaluation of community-based adaptation interventions. Join us for this two-part Webinar on Friday May 17 2013, and register through the links below: Webinar 1 at 10:00 AM Indo-China Time (ICT = UTC+7) for the CARE PMERL approach: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/933853270 Webinar 2 at 16:00 Indo-China Time / 11:00 CET (UTC+2) more...

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Dennis Bours to Monitoring and Evaluation on May 6, 2013

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