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Latin America: Time to Put a Stop to Road Deaths

Latin America: Time to Put a Stop to Road Deaths

worldbank.org –

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Governments from Latin America and multilateral agencies reinforce regional and national road safety plans A lack of road safety in the region results in nearly 130,000 deaths, some six million injuries and some form of disability for hundreds of thousands of people Approximately 1.3 million people die each year on the world’s roads, and between 20 and 50 million are injured.

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John Daly on May 18, 2013

ELLA GUIDE: Strengthening Capacities for Climate Change Adaptation in Mountain Ecosystems: The Latin American Response

ella.practicalaction.org –

Mountains provide a broad range of environmental services including water, energy, soils and biodiversity, and are of vital importance for local populations as well as ecosystems and human populations at lower altitudes. Climate change impacts in mountain ecosystems are therefore affecting large geographic areas and millions of people worldwide. In Latin America’s mountain ranges in Central America and the Andes, strategies to build capacities for climate change adaptation have generally been more...

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Mark Turner on May 17, 2013

Oliver Wyman - How "new form lending" will reshape banks' small business strategies

oliverwyman.com –

you will have to write to Oliver Wyman to get a copy of this very interesting paper by Peter Carroll and Ben Hoffman, but it's worth it. While the focus is on the USA, the paper is a great and concise description of how banks should be looking to transactions records to build the strongest SME businesses, in this era when more and more SMEs do more and more of their business on credit cards. It cites pioneers like Capital Access Network, Amerimerchant and OnDeck Capital, who more...

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matthew gamser to SME Finance Forum on May 17, 2013

Building an Ecosystem for Social Entrepreneurship in Rural Livelihoods

Building an Ecosystem for Social Entrepreneurship in Rural Livelihoods

blogs.worldbank.org –

Bihar has more than 100 million inhabitants and is India’s second poorest state. Ninety percent of the population lives in rural areas and the state has lagged behind in reducing poverty. Jeevika, a rural livelihoods program has been working with community institutions since 2007 and has built an institutional platform by mobilizing 1 million women into self-help groups (SHGs) and higher-level federations. Eventually, the project plans to mobilize 15 million households and reach most more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 17, 2013

Soap Opera for Social Change

Soap Opera for Social Change

youtube.com –

Can soap operas educate TV audiences on personal finance issues? Researchers at the World Bank did the test: They integrated messages on personal finance into 2 episodes of South Africa's famous "Scandal!" soap opera. The results was stunning: debt mediat

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 17, 2013

Obama Administration Releases Historic Open Data Rules to Enhance Government Efficiency and Fuel Economic Growth

Obama Administration Releases Historic Open Data Rules to Enhance Government Efficiency and Fuel Economic Growth

whitehouse.gov –

The Obama Administration today took groundbreaking new steps to make information generated and stored by the Federal Government more open and accessible to innovators and the public, to fuel entrepreneurship and economic growth while increasing government transparency and efficiency. Today’s actions - including an Executive Order signed by the President and an Open Data Policy released by the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Science and Technology Policy - declare that more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 17, 2013

In Jakarta, Open Environmental Data Meets Freedom of Information Law

In Jakarta, Open Environmental Data Meets Freedom of Information Law

techpresident.com –

FOI provides citizens with rights to access. Open data, for the most part, has simply afforded a privilege. Our colleagues in Jakarta have rightly pointed out their discomfort with this and are giving the open data community - which, as a broad tent, has always included those interested in not just transparency, but non-profit, commercial uses, scientific uses - a push to demand more. There is a central the difference between a FOI and open data. FOI is a “document centric” process. It more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 17, 2013

The Shakespeare review: what's the future of UK open data?

The Shakespeare review: what's the future of UK open data?

guardian.co.uk –

The UK is the world leader on open government data, according to YouGov CEO and Open Data Strategy Board chair Stephan Shakespeare, but needs to avoid being the "boffins ... we generate the excitement but don't mint the money". The finding is one of the core messages of The Shakespeare Review, a government-commissioned report on what should happen next with opening up government data for the benefit of government, business and (of course) citizens. Open data has the potential to deliver a £2bn more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 17, 2013

Open Government Data: Helping Parents to find the Best School for their Kids

Open Government Data: Helping Parents to find the Best School for their Kids

blogs.worldbank.org –

Open Government Data is an effective solution which can ease the problem of a lack of accessible information about existing schools in a particular country or location. By adopting the Open Government Data policy in the educational field, governments release data about grades, funding, student and teacher numbers, data generated throughout time by schools, colleges, universities and other educational settings. The School Portal, developed under the Moldova Open Data Initiative, uses data made more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 17, 2013

The Uncertain Relationship Between Open Data and Accountability: A Response to Yu and Robinson’s The New Ambiguity of “Open Government”

The Uncertain Relationship Between Open Data and Accountability: A Response to Yu and Robinson’s The New Ambiguity of “Open Government”

uclalawreview.org –

David Robinson and Harlan Yu are among the foremost scholars in the field of open government data research. With their 2009 article, Government Data and the Invisible Hand,1 Robinson, Yu, and their colleagues were among the first in the academic community to offer a well-articulated rationale for the release of governmental data in open formats. In 2012, Robinson and Yu returned with a new contribution to the field - The New Ambiguity of “Open Government” - providing an analytical more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 17, 2013

Making the DC Code Open

Making the DC Code Open

dc-code-open.eventbrite.com –

Join us at the OpenGov Hub for a special Brown-Bag Lunch (BBL) session with General Council V. David Zvenyach on how Washington DC's Legal Code became available to all earlier this month, and what this means for government data overall. And remember: it's a BBL so be sure to bring your own lunch! Refreshments will be provided by the OpenGov Hub. About the OpenGov Hub: The OpenGov Hub is the day-to-day home to a range of people and organizations working on the open government agenda while also more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 17, 2013

The Power of Social Networks to Drive Mobile Money Adoption

The Power of Social Networks to Drive Mobile Money Adoption

This study identifies and explores the key drivers of mobile money (MM) adoption by comparing data from three African countries. It uses innovative analytics and data mining techniques. It processes findings from a data set of 7 billion transactions performed by more than 10 million mobile phone users over 7 months. The study reveals two key variables that indicate a higher propensity to adopt MM. The first variable is the social network and social interactions of the mobile user. Individuals more...

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D C on May 17, 2013

Transparency Camp & Chinese aid

Transparency Camp & Chinese aid

publishwhatyoufund.org –

Last week l was in Washington D.C. to attend the Sunlight Foundation’s excellent Transparency Camp and present our plans for the 2013 Index. My week kicked off with an event at CGD to launch a new dataset of Chinese aid projects (not that the Chinese call it aid) which has set off a flurry of blogs about the pros and cons of using media sources to collect aid data. Of course my response to all this is predictable - if all providers of development flows published their information in an open, more...

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D C on May 17, 2013

Deutsche Bank and IFC accused of bankrolling Vietnam firms' land grabs

Deutsche Bank and IFC accused of bankrolling Vietnam firms' land grabs

guardian.co.uk –

Two Vietnamese firms bankrolled by Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation – the World Bank's private lending arm – are leading a wave of land grabs in Cambodia and Laos, causing widespread evictions, illegal logging and food insecurity, according to a report. The study, concluding a year-long investigation by the watchdog Global Witness, names two of Vietnam's biggest companies, the privately owned Huang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) and state-owned Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG), as the more...

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D C on May 17, 2013

US Navy ship to sail the Pacific on a humanitarian mission

US Navy ship to sail the Pacific on a humanitarian mission

csmonitor.com –

The US Pacific Fleet said May 9 that it will send an amphibious dock landing ship to six Pacific island nations over the next several months to provide humanitarian assistance and help people better prepare for disasters. The USS Pearl Harbor will leave Hawaii on May 24. It will stop first in Samoa and then visit Tonga, the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, and the Solomon Islands. The US Navy has been sending vessels on similar humanitarian missions since 2006, when it sent the more...

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D C on May 17, 2013

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