As we recently mentioned in our 2014 Winter Newsletter, our Indaba team is set to grow, and we still have 1 new position we are looking to fill. User Experience/Interface Designer We’re looking for an ambitious, creative designer to help shape the future of our web-based SaaS research and fieldwork manager product. If you are…
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By Global Integrity — January 7, 2014. We are excited to announce that our friends at the International Budget Partnership (IBP) will use Indaba – our software platform for collecting, discussing, and exporting raw data – for their 2015 Open Budget Survey (OBS). The OBS is, “the one and only independent, comparative, regular measure of…
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There’s a new report out on civic tech from the Knight Foundation making the rounds. It’s worth taking a read through the findings and the data that Knight gathered in their attempt to map the “civic tech” landscape. What I find most important — and perhaps troubling — about the report is its assumptions and…
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The White House just released its second Open Government Partnership National Action Plan. Though a few months late, the plan is meaty, combining both improvements to existing open government initiatives with some new commitments. Alex Howard has a nice summary post here. Here are the two things I find most interesting at first blush: Surveillance…
DetailsA few months ago we started with a project that aimed to convert speeches from the Macedonian Parliament (represented in textual form) into a meaningful format that would be understandable by a more general audience. After months of hard work, on the 4th of November we arrived at a point where we could present the…
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There’s been plenty of chatter in recent months about a possible post-2015 Millennium Development Goal on governance following the release of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The report called out “good governance and effective institutions” as one of 12 “illustrative” goals that nations might consider when adopting new development…
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