Fast Company
In a wrap-up of 2014 technologies, the Fast Company Design blog honored Environmental Working Group’s FoodScores tool as one of the best apps of the year. The tool ranks products based on ingredient...
View ArticleFollow the Money: Jim Cust: Open Project Data Matters
The following post is by Jim Cust, head of data and analysis for TABridge partner the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and a participant in T/AI’s upcoming Follow the Money Workshop in...
View ArticleFollow the Money: Mushon Zer-Aviv: The Keys to the Israeli Budget
The following post is by Mushon Zer-Aviv, a participant in T/AI’s upcoming Follow the Money Workshop in Berlin. He is a designer, educator and media activist based in Tel Aviv. You can read more by him...
View ArticleSarah Schacht: The Surveillance Citizen: A New Challenge for CSOs and...
The following post is by Sarah Schacht, open government strategy and technology advisor and a mentor and participant in the #TABridge network. Adapted from an earlier post on Medium. A drone hovering...
View ArticleFollow the Money: Khadija Sharife: Where do we begin?
The following post is by Khadija Sharife, a participant in T/AI’s upcoming Follow the Money Workshop in Berlin. Sharife is lead Africa forensics researcher for Investigative Dashboard and a senior...
View ArticleNext Week in Berlin: Goals and Hopes for Following the Money Together
We’re excited, and a little bit in awe, about the group that will join us next week in Berlin for our Follow the Money (FTM) Workshop: more than 100 policy campaigners, NGO leaders, techies,...
View ArticleFollow the Money: Chris Taggart: Why Build a Beneficial Ownership Register?
The following post is by Chris Taggart, a participant in T/AI’s upcoming Follow the Money Workshop in Berlin. He is the founder of OpenCorporates and sits on the UK Government’s Local Public Data...
View ArticleFollow the Money: How People Imagine 2016
Yesterday evening we concluded an intensive, bustling two-day workshop on Follow the Money, where more than 100 of us from small and large organizations, rich and poor countries, techie and low-tech...
View ArticleFollow the Money: Alex Cobham: Show me the Follow the Money!
The following post is by Alex Cobham, Director of Research at the international Tax Justice Network and a participant in T/AI’s Follow the Money Workshop last week in Berlin. Cross-posted from...
View ArticleFollow the Money: Zara Rahman: Effective technology tools: less shiny, more...
The following post is by Zara Rahman, open development expert at the Open Knowledge Foundation and a participant in T/AI’s Follow the Money Workshop last week in Berlin. Cross-posted from zararah.net....
View ArticleIBP: Engaging the Public in the Budget: Twitter Chats in Kenya
The following post was written by Vivian Magero and John Kinuthia of International Budget Partnership Kenya. The International Budget Partnership is a co-organizer of the TABridge network. Cross-posted...
View ArticleFollow the Money: What I learned at #FTMTech
What is it like to bring over 100 individuals together in a room to talk about the issues surrounding ‘Follow the Money’ (FTM) and the impact that technology and data have on it? On January 21st and...
View ArticleFollow the Money: Beatrice Martini: On financial transparency and technology
The following post is by Beatrice Martini, capacity builder and event curator, and a co-facilitator of T/AI’s Follow the Money Workshop last month in Berlin. Cross-posted from beatricemartini.it....
View ArticleFollow the Money: A Few Insights and Inspirations from Three Days in Berlin
It was a privilege to help plan and host January’s “Follow the Money Workshop” in Berlin, convened by the Transparency and Accountability Initiative (T/AI) and deftly facilitated by co-organizers...
View ArticleFollow the Money: Ruth Miller: Reporting back from in Berlin
The following post is by Ruth Miller of Aspiration, co-organizers of the TABridge Network and facilitators of the recent Follow the Money Workshop in Berlin. (A previous version of this post appeared...
View ArticleFollow the Money: Beatrice Martini: How to design a financial transparency...
The following post is by Beatrice Martini, capacity builder and event curator, and a co-facilitator of T/AI’s Follow the Money Workshop last month in Berlin. Cross-posted from beatricemartini.it. When...
View ArticleBridging Hacking and Local Activism in the Rainforest
When you imagine “hacking through a rainforest,” you probably picture machetes, not mesh networks or mobiles, but last week more than 40 techies and activists met deep in the Peruvian countryside to...
View ArticleModernizing Foreign Aid by “Doing More With Data”
Our “Follow the Money” colleagues at AidData co-hosted a discussion Tuesday that sought to create bridges between U.S. foreign assistance agencies and “advocates, technology leaders and policy...
View ArticleNet Neutrality Victory in U.S. Can Help Rewire International Policies
Consumers, campaigners and champions of free speech everywhere won a huge victory last week when United States regulators voted in favor of net neutrality rules, reclassifying broadband internet in the...
View ArticleCGD: Do Mobile Phone Surveys Work in Poor Countries?
The following post is by Ben Leo and Robert Morello of the Center for Global Development (CGD). Cross-posted from the CGD blog. See also this 2013 post from TABridge on the Ureport mobile platform. The...
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