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Shattering Decades of Diplomatic Protocol
The US Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights explains why OGP breaks the mold of international engagement.
Tag: International Development
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Innovating Modern Democracy, in Brazil and Globally
The OGP partnership with Brazil represents a global challenge for government and civil society stakeholders to advance the concept of 21st-century democracy.
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Tanzania’s Transparency Agenda
Matthias Chikawe, Justice Minister of Tanzania, and Rakesh Rajani, a Tanzanian civil society leader, discuss the potential impacts of OGP in Tanzania.
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Philanthropy Can Catalyze an Open Government Movement
OGP is energizing the global open government discussion, while developing new norms and standards—something donors should support.
Education
What’s Holding Back Mobile Phones for Education?
Mobile broadband will revolutionize learning networks around content delivery and workforce development.
Environment
Resilience Meets Disaster Economics
Investing to stop disasters before they start can save lives and money.
Measuring Social Impact
Measuring Impact Over Time
It is perhaps no coincidence that the development community’s biggest successes—eradication initiatives like polio and smallpox—are precisely the ones that made monitoring central to their work.
Social Entrepreneurship
The Truth About Disruptive Development
The West shouldn’t create solutions to problems we don’t understand using fashionable mobile technologies.
Nonprofit Management
Skills-Based Volunteering: The New Executive Training Ground
Young people are gaining cultural skills and insight through volunteering that will influence their decisions for decades to come.
Fundraising
The Humanitarian Technologist’s Dilemma
We must push for inclusion of technology in grant proposals.