Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Openness in Fragile Environments: the art of the possible

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How do you adapt opengov approaches to countries that are prone to violence, emerging from conflict and characterised by endemic corrup...
Saturday, 14 November 2015

OpenGov: emotions, complexity, power & partnerships

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Human beings are complex, volatile and often irrational creatures. That is all the more so in environments characterised by the use of v...
Sunday, 8 November 2015

OGP: An inclusive ‘movement’ that counts what counts?

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Is there an open government ‘movement’ and if so where is it moving and how will it know if it gets there? I heard repeated referenc...
Friday, 23 October 2015

What does openness look like: a response

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MAVC has just posted an interesting take on what it regards as the key issues to consider when trying to understand what open governmen...
Monday, 19 October 2015

Aid funding: UN Chief raises hackles of large INGOs

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Stephen O'Brien, new head of UNHCR, told a conference in Geneva earlier last week that only 2% of humanitarian funding went to local...
Friday, 16 October 2015

OGP & SDG16: Time to leave our comfort zones

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Is the Open Government Partnership complimentary, contradictory or in competition with the Sustainable Development Goals and in particul...
Sunday, 27 September 2015

What are the SDGs for: power to the people?

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So. Post2015 has become post-post2015 and the SDGs were eventually born. For those of us who were for years part of the NGO post2015 poli...