Sunday, 28 September 2014

Turkana County: A Reality Check

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“The County Government now has 9 billion Shillings to dedicate to local people, their needs and concerns. We are determined to make th...
Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Open knowledge & changing the world

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At the Open Knowledge Festival in Berlin July 15-17, Making All Voices Count, for whom I work, supported conversations centred on key them...
Friday, 11 July 2014

How does change happen?

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How does change happen, and what is the role of programmes like Making All Voices Count ? “In Dar, the lights went on for me about w...
Thursday, 3 July 2014

Fixing the feedback loop: a bridge too far?

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“Trust the people who sold my future”? Amina had just been asked what it would take for her to start to engage with the State, in this c...
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Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Politics, big business & dark data: reflections from OGP Dublin

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This article first appeared here  The Open Government Partnership roadshow rolled into the breathtaking grounds of Dublin Castle la...
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Saturday, 26 April 2014

Going local: Innovations to transform citizen-state relations

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We have a problem. The only way to transform governance is bottom-up. Yet the attention is all on top-down. Here are some thoughts I pu...
Saturday, 29 March 2014

Transparency: Learning, Limits & Power

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Just off Gatot Subroko road, next to the clogged periphery road looping around a severely congested Jakarta is an open sewer. It sits b...