TABridge Open Mentoring Project: Call for Participants
Are you interested in getting some advice on overcoming challenges in implementing technology projects? Or would you like to share your own learnings? As part of our 2013 mentoring initiative, we are...
View ArticleUnder 1,000 Words on Data Visualization
Our friends at the On Think Tanks blog have announced a data visualization competition for think tanks in developing countries, which is sponsored by T/AI co-funder the Open Society Foundations. We use...
View ArticleKeeping in Sync as We Open Up
Advocates inside and outside government are working hard to embrace open data practices. International bodies, governments and even rock stars have moved past the question of why we need open, shared...
View ArticleCan You Hear Me Now? Mentoring from a Distance
The experts in our TABridge Mentoring program work at a distance, for the most part, giving project-specific guidance to selected organizations through the support of the Transparency and...
View ArticleAppreciation for a Bridge-building Colleague
All of us in the TABridge network are losing a valued colleague this week, as Miriam McCarthy leaves her role as Program Coordinator after more than three years. She will take up a new position shortly...
View ArticleNotes by “Graphic Recorders” Capture the Moment
Author: Dirk Slater I recently traveled to Jakarta for “Matchmaking Budget Transparency & Technology,” a three-day event convened by The Southeast Asia Technology and Transparency Initiative...
View ArticlePreviewing OKCon in Geneva, 16-19 September
Next week, the Open Knowledge Foundation and Switzerland’s Opendata.ch will kick off the annual OKCon in Geneva. Practitioners, researchers and policy experts will gather in Geneva starting to compare...
View ArticleTreat All Data as Conversation
What if data published by governments had tracked changes and comments turned on like a Word document—for every user? That is basically the question asked the other day by Gov 2.0 evangelist Ben...
View ArticleJavier Casas: ONG ‘inteligente’
Este artículo don Javier Casas ha sido elaborado sobre la base de uno de los módulos de la consejería de Gabriela Rodriguez de DATA brindada a Suma Ciudadana en el marco del proyecto TABridge. También...
View ArticleJavier Casas: Technology Tips for ‘Smart’ NGOs
Javier Casas of Suma Ciudadana in Peru offers advice and some warnings to NGOs beginning tech projects, based on his group’s work with #TABridge mentor Gaba Rodriguez of DATA. This post is also...
View ArticleMentors’ Lessons: Putting Tech Second
On Tuesday, November 5, #TABridge hosts a live webinar with lessons and stories from our 2013 Mentorship program. Our team of mentors will report on their activities supporting more than half a dozen...
View ArticleSessions and Calls to Action at OGP Summit
More than 1,000 of our colleagues from the #TABridge network and across the global transparency movement are in London this week for the 2013 summit of the Open Government Partnership. With the OGP now...
View ArticleOGP Session: Land Transparency
Our OGP session on transparency in land ownership and land use spanned sectors and prompted a range of practical recommendations from campaigners. The October 31 panel introduced by T/AI Director...
View ArticleMentors’ Lessons: Check for Strategy “Disconnects”
Join us next Tuesday, November 5 for a live webinar with lessons and stories from our 2013 Mentorship program. Our team of mentors will report on their activities supporting more than half a dozen NGOs...
View ArticleOGP Session: Tax Transparency
In the campaign to clamp down on tax evasion and avoidance, information to enable tax collection is an essential—but too often absent—piece of the puzzle. But recently reformers inside and outside...
View ArticleHollie Gilman: New York’s Big Participatory Budgeting Moment
The following post is by Hollie Russon Gilman, PhD author of The Participatory Turn: Participatory Budgeting Comes to America and a co-organizer of the #TABridge network. (Cross-posted from The GovLab...
View ArticleNuggets from Webinar: The TABridge Mentorships
Our 5 November webinar explored the details and lessons from the TABridge Mentorships that ran from March to September, 2013. During the project, six mentors worked with nine different transparency...
View ArticleVanessa Herringshaw: Act Now to Keep Governance on Post-MDG Agenda in February
The following post by T/AI Director Vanessa Herringshaw is also posted on the Open Government Partership blog. The 2015 end date for the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is closer than we think...
View ArticleTransparency and Accountability Thematic Window
3ie requests proposals for impact evaluations of interventions that aim to increase the transparency and accountability in the governance of natural resources such as oil, gas and minerals. The...
View ArticleCongratulations EWG for New Skin Deep App
After many months of development, and outreach for thoughtful input from their site users, Environmental Working Group has released the first-ever mobile app for their award-winning Skin Deep database....
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