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Indaba is hiring!
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…
January 13, 2014
IBP gets on Indaba!
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…
January 7, 2014
The Sharing Economy is Not Civic Tech
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…
December 17, 2013
Flash Reactions to the 2nd US Open Government Partnership National Action Plan
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…
December 6, 2013
The Path to VoxPolitico
A 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…
November 26, 2013
How to Measure a Post-2015 MDG on Good Governance
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…
November 25, 2013