This is just a overview based on first discussions I had so far in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore, the coming week I will talk to the producers of maintainers of most of these examples at least the ones that are based in Bangalore. So the first example is http://sehore.samadhan.org.in/ or also http://koraput.samadhan.org.in/ both fit into the UN Millennium Campaign, working …
So after almost two years I returned to India again two weeks ago. Called a sabbatical it is not the kind of journey and not the kind of country where you would go to a nice beach and hang out all night so I decided to look for exciting apps and platforms for citizens engagement and that in against the …
It has been to long after even visiting Zimbabwe there was enough to update but no time, luckily twitter made it easy to share the highlights and then once a week rap it up in a last weeks overview. Next to that I get documents from friends or related organizations per mail I can not tweet about them so I …
Enough reason to write a long story but no energy. It was a great day, a 5 we (Sanne and I) got up and went to LHRC HQ to join with the admins to monitor the messages coming in. A team from volunteers were at Bakamoyo University brought togehter by Jamii Forums. And of coarse there was a crowd of …
I never thought I would mention positive developments around the Worldbank as part of the anti imperialist movement since the nineteenseventees but since their open data stories, since their open data website which shows a good example of how others can do that I also want to show you this speech of Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank …
RT @rolfkleef: "Accessing aid information" - http://sfy.co/1dW great overview! [from http://twitter.com/hapeeg/statuses/43613870815838210]
RT @globalvoices: Kenya: Meet Kenyans on Twitter http://bit.ly/eDIbYp [from http://twitter.com/hapeeg/statuses/43612864539406340]
Training Kit on participatory spatial information management and communication http://ow.ly/47KgL #cta [from http://twitter.com/hapeeg/statuses/43605274203922430]
RT @VakbladVV: Partos-directeur ziet fusiemogelijkheden vooral bij together 4 change http://tinyurl.com/4jrz628 [from http://twitter.com/hapeeg/statuses/43600523701661700]
Wauw great news, gonna join right away: The New Ushahidi Community Website Is Live! – The Ushahidi Blog http://ow.ly/47ozz [from http://twitter.com/hapeeg/statuses/43397946154295300]
A group of Kurdish Internet activists that have been organizing around the #TwitterKurds hashtag on Twitter have come together for the first Kurdish Social Media Gathering earlier this month in London. The event was live streamed and joined in via Skype and YouTube by those who could not be there physically, although there were participants who had traveled from as far as Australia to participate.
A Saudi family has been saved from homelessness and destitution thanks to a three-minute movie shot by young Saudi film maker Bader AlHomoud. Haifa Al Rasheed tells us how in this touching post.
Using the Facebook page [bs] “Moj grad, moja sigurnost, moja odgovornost” (”My city, my security, my responsibility”), Sarajevo residents are uploading pictures of illegally parked cars and reckless drivers, trying to convince the authorities to take action and protect pedestrians. According to the administrators of the page, there has been...
Last Saturday, after several protests against the government's policies, Hungarians supporting those in power decided to hold a rally of their own, too. Marietta Le reports.
The Economist's Eastern Approaches blog writes about Slovakia's corruption scandal caused by the leaked info from the 2005-06 wiretapping operation codenamed “Gorilla” (more - here). On Friday, Jan. 27, an anti-corruption rally - “Protest Gorila” [sk; Facebook page]- took place in the capital Bratislava (photos are here, videos - here)....