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How India’s Unique ID System is Changing Lives

How India’s Unique ID System is Changing Lives

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Aadhaar is a state-of-the-art online system that provides unique 12-digit ID numbers to residents of India. These numbers can be used for a wide range of public and private services. Aadhaar has already registered over 300 million people in its cloud database. Eventually the system will register all of India's 1.2 billion residents – but that's not all its set out to do. Aadhaar encourages innovation through an interface open to private and public applications. One of its first major more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 5, 2013

Scaling Mobile for Development: A developing world opportunity

Scaling Mobile for Development: A developing world opportunity

mobiledevelopmentintelligence.com –

Across the developing world, around 40% of people now actively subscribe to mobile services. Including those with access to a mobile despite not owning one would push the connected population to well over 50%. However, while access to core services such as banking, electricity and sanitation is near universal in developed regions such as Europe and the United States, it is enjoyed by below 50% in several developing regions. Mobile for Development is a growing sector, with well over 1,000 live more...

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Feedback Labs

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Ashoka, Center for Global Development, Development Gateway, FrontlineSMS, GlobalGiving, GroundTruth Initiative, and Ushahidi will be creating real conversations between governments, donors, and citizens through human-centered design, adaptive processes, technology, and trust. Join to find out.

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Is It Time for a New Paradigm for "Citizen Engagement"? The Role of Context and What the Evidence Tells Us

Is It Time for a New Paradigm for "Citizen Engagement"? The Role of Context and What the Evidence Tells Us

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The current World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim, recently put it that, "citizen voice can be pivotal in providing the demand-side pressure on government, service providers, and organizations such as the World Bank that is needed to encourage full and swift response to citizen needs". There has, in turn, been a mushrooming of useful operational guidance on different "tools" for social accountability - i.e. steps, inputs and methodologies - that guide discrete interventions, ranging from more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 5, 2013

Cities and data: Cities are finding useful ways of handling a torrent of data

Cities and data: Cities are finding useful ways of handling a torrent of data

economist.com –

Many cities around the United States are accumulating data faster than they know what to do with. One approach is to give them to the public. For example, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago are or soon will be sharing the grades that health inspectors give to restaurants with an online restaurant directory. Another way of doing it is simply to publish the raw data and hope that others will figure out how to use them. This has been particularly successful in Chicago, where more...

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Mobile phone data redraws bus routes in Africa

Mobile phone data redraws bus routes in Africa

Researchers at IBM have redrawn the bus routes of Ivory Coast's largest city using mobile phone data. The research was completed as part of the Data for Development competition run by Orange which released 2.5 billion call records from five million mobile phone users in Ivory Coast. Currently the project is just a research exercise although IBM is hoping to implement it in a number of cities. They concentrated on bus routes in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's largest city, where the network is made up more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 5, 2013

SEA Change weekly newsletter – 2013 05 02

SEA Change weekly newsletter – 2013 05 02

seachangecop.org –

The webinar recording of last week’s SEA Change webinar by Mr. Glenn O’Neil “Presenting evaluation findings and evidence-based organizational learning” has been put online, together with relevant reading materials, and can be found on the webinar page: http://www.seachangecop.org/node/1836. This webinar did not have a climate change focus, but the topic was developed upon requests from SEA Change members. More webinar-news in Topic 2. On May 17 we will have an exciting 2-part more...

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SEA Change weekly newsletter – 2013 05 02

SEA Change weekly newsletter – 2013 05 02

seachangecop.org –

The webinar recording of last week’s SEA Change webinar by Mr. Glenn O’Neil “Presenting evaluation findings and evidence-based organizational learning” has been put online, together with relevant reading materials, and can be found on the webinar page: http://www.seachangecop.org/node/1836. This webinar did not have a climate change focus, but the topic was developed upon requests from SEA Change members. More webinar-news in Topic 2. On May 17 we will have an exciting 2-part webinar more...

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Dennis Bours on May 3, 2013

IMF World Economic Outlook

IMF World Economic Outlook

A number of assumptions have been adopted for the projections presented in the World Economic Outlook. It has been assumed that real effective exchange rates remained constant at their average levels during February 11 March 11, 2013, except for the currencies participating in the European exchange rate mechanism II (ERM II), which are assumed to have remained constant in nominal terms relative to the euro; that established policies of national authorities will be maintained; that the average more...

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D C on May 2, 2013

NASA Open Government Plan

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The key principles of Open Government – participation, collaboration and transparency - have been embedded in NASA operations for more than 50 years. As NASA continues to implement the Open Government Directive, we have developed version 2.0 of our Open Government Plan to serve as a model – not a manual – for what a more open NASA might look like today. Our Plan collects the many new activities that exemplify the evolution of openness in NASA’s policy, technology and culture – and provides more...

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Introduction to Open Data for Africa

Introduction to Open Data for Africa

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The Open Data for Africa platform is a response from the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) aimed at boosting access to quality data necessary for managing and monitoring development results in African countries, including the millennium development goals. It responds to a number of important global and regional initiatives increase the availability of data on Africa. It will foster evidence-based decision-making, public accountability, and good governance. The initiative forms part of more...

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Global Monitoring Report 2013: Monitoring the MDGs

Global Monitoring Report 2013: Monitoring the MDGs

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The Global Monitoring Report (GMR), jointly produced by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), is an annual report card on the world’s progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Now in its 10th edition, the GMR also outlines prospects for the attainment of the MDGs and assesses the support of the international community. Achieving as many MDGs as possible before 2015 remains an urgent endeavor for the development community. This GMR highlights those MDGs that more...

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2013 Global Assessment Trends Report

2013 Global Assessment Trends Report

The Global Assessment Trends Report is an annual indicator of assessment practices, giving HR professionals a comprehensive view of how organizations around the world measure talent across the employee lifecycle. This year’s report includes the results of an online survey conducted in late 2012 and completed by 592 human resources (HR) professionals from companies headquartered throughout the world. The report focuses on organizations’ talent assessment practices with both internal and more...

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Supporting SMEs in 2012 - A joint report of the European Commission and the EIB Group

Supporting SMEs in 2012 - A joint report of the European Commission and the EIB Group

ec.europa.eu –

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) will drive the recovery in Europe, but they need improved and easy access to finance. Over the last few years the European Commission has been constantly working to improve their situation. This commitment is reiterated in a joint European Commission/European Investment Bank (EIB) Group report published today. At a time when the situation remains difficult, the EIB Group's support for SMEs reached €13 billion in 2012. In addition, with a budget of €1.1 more...

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SME Finance Forum to SME Finance Forum on May 2, 2013

Improving finance access to SMEs: key to economic recovery in Europe?

European Commission

The European Commission has been working on improving access to finance for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the belief they can drive recovery in Europe.

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