Methodical Snark critical reflections on how we measure and assess civic tech
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I Read This For You

There’s a slew of reports and articles coming out. When they are widely relevant or particularly important, I’ll try to summarize them concisely, so that you can get the main points, without settling into a 50 pg PDF before breakfast.
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Book Review: The Global Impact of Open Data

The Global Impact of Open Data: Key Findings from Detailed Case Studies Around the World By Stefaan Verhulst, Andrew Young Publisher: O’Reilly Released: September 2016         O’Reilly recently released a book documenting GovLab’s case studies on open data impact around the world. Some of the key findings were presented for feedback at the IODC last week, and were...

New Research Guide on Open Data and Accountabiltiy

The GSDRC is a resource centre that synthesises and summarizes research for use in international development programming. It’s a great initiative for making scholarly work relevant and useful in the real world, and last week they released a new topic guide on open data and accountability. I was excited to take a look, as I’ve previously found their guides and responses to research help desk...

Methodical Snark critical reflections on how we measure and assess civic tech

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