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A website that helps save your electricity bill

A website that helps save your electricity bill

livemint.com –

Abhishek Jain has come a long way since he left a high-profile job in Deloitte to help Indians save electricity at home. His online initiative, bijlibachao.com, not only helps analyse electricity bills but also calculates how a consumer can save money by choosing the right colour for a room and correctly placing appliances. “An electricity bill is a confusing entity. If the bill is Rs. 2,000 - 3,000, let’s go pay it, but how it gets to Rs. 2,000 - 3,000 no one knows, and one just goes and pays more...

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D C on May 19, 2013

The Global Fund should take transparency to another level

The Global Fund should take transparency to another level

blog.aiddata.org –

Global Fund transparency, as it is practised today, is more of a barrier to journalists and in-country activists than anything else: intimidating piles of reports filled with obscure language, countless files and downloadable materials that reassure technocrats in donor capitals but that don’t say much about the reality of what happens to the funds when they hit the ground. Understanding, processing and making use of this information requires learning about technical jargon, Global Fund more...

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D C on May 19, 2013

Bill Gates: Teachers need real feedback

Bill Gates: Teachers need real feedback

Until recently, many teachers only got one word of feedback a year: “satisfactory.” And with no feedback, no coaching, there’s just no way to improve. Bill Gates suggests that even great teachers can get better with smart feedback -- and lays out a program from his foundation to bring it to every classroom. A passionate techie and a shrewd businessman, Bill Gates changed the world once, while leading Microsoft to dizzying success. Now he's set to do it again with his own style of philanthropy more...

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D C on May 19, 2013

Second-Generation Americans: A Portrait of the Adult Children of Immigrants

Second-Generation Americans: A Portrait of the Adult Children of Immigrants

pewsocialtrends.org –

Second-generation Americans - the 20 million adult U.S.-born children of immigrants - are substantially better off than immigrants themselves on key measures of socioeconomic attainment, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. They have higher incomes; more are college graduates and homeowners; and fewer live in poverty. In all of these measures, their characteristics resemble those of the full U.S. adult population. Hispanics and Asian Americans make up more...

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D C on May 19, 2013

Research Uptake: A guide for DFID-funded research programmes

Research Uptake: A guide for DFID-funded research programmes

DFID funds research in order to contribute to its overarching goal of poverty reduction. We fund some research which aims to produce new products or technologies which directly improve the lives of poor people. Other research produces knowledge and will only have an impact if it is understood and used to inform decisions. Research uptake includes all the activities that facilitate and contribute to the use of research evidence by policy-makers, practitioners and other development actors. This more...

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D C on May 19, 2013

Civic Engagement in the Digital Age

Civic Engagement in the Digital Age

pewinternet.org –

Social networking sites have grown more important in recent years as a venue for political involvement, learning, and debate. Overall, 39% of all American adults took part in some sort of political activity on a social networking site during the 2012 campaign. This means that more Americans are now politically active on social networking sites (SNS) than used them at all as recently as the 2008 election campaign. At that point, 26% of the population used a social networking site of any kind. more...

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D C on May 19, 2013

Digital Panchayat: Vital to Shape India's Future

Digital Panchayat: Vital to Shape India's Future

defindia.net –

The soul of India lives in its villages. More than 69 percent of 1.21 billion Indians, i.e. nearly 830 million people live in different villages. While the urban population has been dramatically increasing in India since the last decade, the rural economy and life is still central to India's existence and identity. This country cannot develop without developing its villages. The digital revolution in each and every Panchayat is a must in a bid to make India’s growth inclusive. Without this more...

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D C on May 19, 2013

More Information on the New Funding Model, Please

More Information on the New Funding Model, Please

aidspan.org –

This is a plea for the Global Fund to become more active in communicating information about the new funding model to its broad audience of people working on and interested in Global Fund matters. For a multilateral agency like the Global Fund, the development of a new funding model (NFM) is extremely complex and time-consuming, as is the transition from the rounds-based system. All of this needs very careful planning and attention to detail from all involved. It also needs a good communication more...

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D C on May 19, 2013

Global Monitoring Report 2013: Rural-Urban Dynamics and the Millennium Development Goals

Global Monitoring Report 2013: Rural-Urban Dynamics and the Millennium Development Goals

openknowledge.worldbank.org –

The Global Monitoring Report 2013: Rural-Urban Dynamics and the Millennium Development Goals examines rural-urban disparities in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and how urbanization, if managed well, can contribute to the attainment of these goals. The report provides information about the differences in progress toward the MDGs across geographical areas and recognizes that urban populations are better off than their rural brethren. However, unfettered urbanization more...

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D C on May 19, 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 –

I recently relocated my family from Chisanau to The Hague, leading to the difficult experience of trying to find the best primary school for my son in a new city. This challenge – finding the right school – is probably one of the most important decisions in many parents’ lives. Parents are looking for answers to questions such as which schools are located in safe neighborhoods, which ones have the highest teacher – students’ ratio, which schools have the best funding, which schools have more...

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D C on May 19, 2013

Special Report: ‘Mobiles for Social & Behaviour Change in India'

Special Report: ‘Mobiles for Social & Behaviour Change in India'

defindia.net –

The consultation paper (draft) presents the key areas of emphasis in the growing mobile for development space in India. The purpose is to understand the scope and magnitude of the expanding mobile domain as it is lately linked essentially to advance development and governance objectives and seen as the most democratic technology medium to offer scope to deliver service needs anytime, anywhere. The Paper content has been derived from existing research and field inputs. The paper is intended to more...

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D C on May 19, 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 recently 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 on May 19, 2013

The Global Innovation Index 2012

The Global Innovation Index 2012

globalinnovationindex.org –

In recent months, policy discussions about how to reignite confidence in the world economy have questioned the focus on austerity measures. The economic policy debate is placing renewed emphasis on achieving an appropriate policy mix that fosters growth and employment while promoting sustainable public finances. Policies to promote innovation should feature prominently in these discussions - even if innovation cannot cure the most immediate financial difficulties, it is a crucial element of more...

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D C on May 19, 2013

How to Note: Assessing the Strength of Evidence

How to Note: Assessing the Strength of Evidence

The “Assessing the Strength of Evidence” How to Note aims to help all DFID staff appreciate better the strength of evidence they are using to inform their policy and programming choices. DFID is making the guidance publically available, as it may be helpful to researchers and policy makers in government departments, research institutes and funding bodies. Identifying and using high quality research studies isn’t straightforward. The note offers some rules of thumb. When DFID writes or more...

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D C on May 19, 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

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