Jan 23, 2012

Citizen engagement ict platforms in India

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 …

Jan 22, 2012

Back in India looking for citizen engagement

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 …

Mar 14, 2011

Catch up from this weeks highlights

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 …

Oct 31, 2010

Monitoring elections in Tanzania with Uchaguzi.or.tz

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 …

Oct 12, 2010

Worldbank way ahead

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 …

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Travels

Hapee de Groot is at home in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Past trips:

  • Brighton, United Kingdom
  • Zutphen, Netherlands
  • Stavelot, Belgium
  • Bangalore, India
  • Panamá, Panama
  • Guatemala, Guatemala
  • Nairobi, Kenya
  • Geneva, Switzerland
  • Harare, Zimbabwe
  • Nairobi, Kenya
  • London, United Kingdom
  • Rome, Italy

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