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Towards A More Gender-Inclusive Open Source Community
New research from the IDS Digital and Technology Cluster carried out for the Digital Impact Alliance explores the experiences of...
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Mediating Voices, Communicating Realities
Using Information Crowdsourcing Tools, Open Data Initiatives and Digital Media to Support and Protect the Vulnerable.
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IKM Emergent
IKM Emergent is a research and communication programme that aims to critically analyse how different types of knowledge, including research, are informing development practice.
Journal Article
7 August 2017
ICTs and the Challenge of Health System Transition in Low and Middle-Income Countries
Published by: BioMed Central
The aim of this paper is to contribute to debates about how governments and other stakeholders can influence the application of ICTs to increase access to safe, effective and affordable treatment of common illnesses, especially by the poor.
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1 February 2017
Shifting the Spotlight: Understanding Crowdsourcing Intermediaries in Transparency and Accountability Initiatives
Published by: IDS
This report highlights the ideas and practices that underlie the work of crowdsourcing intermediaries: actors who collect and analyse citizen feedback using digital platforms, and use it to support positive change. Most studies of crowdsourcing initiatives in the transparency and accountability field are primarily concerned with representation (whose voice is being heard?) and impact (what kind of change is being supported?).
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1 February 2016
Evaluating Digital Citizen Engagement
Published by: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank
This guide provides practical steps to assess the extent to which digital tools have contributed to citizen engagement and the help to understand the impact that the introduction of technology has had on the engagement processes.
Journal Article
8 January 2016
Reimagining Participation: Opportunities and Challenges of the Open Source Model of Collaboration for Development Thinking and Practice
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Science and technology have a controversial record in alleviating poverty, especially in the context of developing countries. The...
Journal Article
6 January 2016
Real Time Monitoring and the New Information Technologies
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Debates as to the potential role of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in monitoring the wellbeing of vulnerable...
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1 June 2014
The Question of Inclusiveness: A think piece for the Making All Voices Count Programme
Published by: IDS
This think piece draws from a desk review of experience in ICT-mediated citizen engagement, and an exchange of ideas in an e-dialogue between practitioners and scholars in late January 2014.
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12 April 2013
Real Time Monitoring for the Most Vulnerable
Published by: IDS
Developing real time information streams is about new ways of collecting traditional data, and of facilitating the sharing of existing data and knowledge across sectors and institutions.