January 2013 Blog Posts (4)

Accountability Innovations We Love No. 6: E-Participation

E-governance initiatives, heavily touted as the ICT revolution took off in the past decade, have generally not lived up to expectations or functioned as effectively as hoped by many citizens. A number of these initiatives famously drew in significant amounts of public funds but produced online systems that were difficult to use, over-priced and based on clunky back-end architectures. Many of those projects that did work were not so much examples of e-governance as “i-government”- through…

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Added by Blair Glencorse on January 31, 2013 at 2:11pm — No Comments

http://www.scribd.com/doc/116034307/Community-Radio-Directory-in-Bangladesh Greetings from Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC). BNNRC is in special consultative status with…

http://www.scribd.com/doc/116034307/Community-Radio-Directory-in-Bangladesh

Greetings from Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC). BNNRC…

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Added by AHM Bazlur Rahman on January 25, 2013 at 9:22am — No Comments

Gender Policy in Community Radio Stations of Bangladesh- 2nd edition

http://www.scribd.com/doc/121470061/2nd-edition-Gender-Policy-in-Community-Radio-Stations-in-Bangladesh

Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) is a national networking body working for building a democratic society based on the principles of free flow of information, equitable & affordable access to…

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Added by AHM Bazlur Rahman on January 25, 2013 at 9:19am — No Comments

Useful Versus Useless Transparency

Transparency has frequently been cited as a cure to corruption. Freedom of information has been declared a universal human right, with over 70 countries adopting it as such to date.

However, as Albert Einstein once said, “Not everything that counts can be measured and not everything that can be measured counts.”…

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Added by Anne Sophie Lambert on January 11, 2013 at 2:00am — No Comments