You can find the Seattle KM4dev 2013 workshop documentation here: http://wiki.km4dev.org/KM4Dev_2013_workshop



There you will also find the links to the various social media reporting outlets as well. if you were a participant in the workshop, please share your…

On Wednesday August 7, 2013 the Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning (USAID/PPL) will be hosting a one-day Lab Session (online discussion) on USAID’s Learning Lab website. The online discussion will serve as a follow-up to the June …

By Gennie Allcott, Accountability Lab Summer Resident

Last month, I attended a seminar on how to fight corruption in Washington DC held by Judicial Watch: a government watchdog organization that seeks to expose and combat government corruption in DC.…

Many people including women leaders and social workers are excited about women empowerment in development and under developed country. It is true that in those countries, there have been created many opportunities to empowered women and now women especially poor women of those countries are empowered themselves than last decades. Access in Micro finance and borrowing…

By Gennie Allcott, Accountability Lab Summer Resident

This month, the Open Gov Hub, home of the Accountability Lab and 15 other organizations working on the open government agenda, held an information session on the activities of the…

By: Albert Otieno, iHub Research

iHub Research is the research arm of an innovative, open working space for the technology community in Nairobi, similar in many ways to the Lab’s home- the OpenGov Hub- in Washington DC. Since September 2011, iHub Research has been…

By Yasmin Anis, Accountability Lab Summer Resident. 

Every day as I ride along on my penh-penhs (motorbike taxis)- what I consider to be Liberia’s premier mode of transportation, I inevitably see one or two huge black SUVs with tinted windows pass by. I look over, trying to determine which VIP is inside. No doubt they are staring back at me with the…

By Yasmin Anis, Accountability Lab Summer Resident. It has been a whirlwind of a first week since I landed in Monrovia. As with any new place, you attempt to take in your surroundings while your brain frantically…

L ess than two weeks are left to register for the Seattle KM4dev event! Interested in reflecting on where we're at today in the KM for development field? Do you want to share what you are doing? Learn about what others are working on? Try to work out issues and challenges together? And have a lot of fun in the process? :-)

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Hi all, 

another vacancy announcement that might be of your interest: 

CCAFS, CARE, IIED and PROCASUR are jointly developing a Learning Route on "Learning from climate change adaptation innovative experiences of communities and local governments in ASALs. A Learning Route for Policy Makers”, that will take place from the 2nd to the 7th September 2013, in Kenya. In the framework of this initiative and as part of the project,…

Hi everyone, 

I thought this might be of your interest: 

IFAD and PROCASUR are jointly developing a Learning Route on “Innovative Ideas on securing resource rights through inclusive business models”, that will take place from the 16th to the 23rd of August 2013, in Uganda. In the framework of this initiative and as part of the project, the Procasur Corporation is recruiting a Local Technical Coordinator for the…

“What does the kind of transparency that leads to accountability look like?” Last Thursday, the Lab participated in a constructive online discussion, facilitated by The Guardian’s Global Development Professionals Network, on how to build capacity for effective…

This post was originally published by theCouncil on Foreign Relations. The post-Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) framework…

Are you either signed up or thinking about going to the KM4dev Seattle event from July 29-31 (to sign up, see info here: http://wiki.km4dev.org/KM4Dev_2013_workshop)?…

Just wanted to let you know about a great survey tool that can be used for data gathering and analysis. It is called "SoGoSurvey" and it is extremely easy to use. I don't consider myself to be a design or data expert by any means, however this tool gave me the ability and confidence to be able to structure and design a well organized survey, but to then be able to choose from many different types of reporting and graphic formats to represent the data collected. I highly recommend this tool…

“Bromine!” I said with a sense of amusement in my voice as we drove down from Mumbai to Pune. “Yes, leaking bromine...it usually causes a mess in the warehouse, and one of my last KM projects was to stem this issue” Rudolf said. I rest my head on the comfortable upholstery and imagine myself in a warehouse and ask – will my KM projects ever reach a warehouse?

Rudolf does have a certain element of surprise value to him. He carries a Canon SLR still camera and a Sony full-HD…

(Image... float plan coming in for landing on Lake Union, approaching from the South. Our workshop space is just off to the right...)

Every time I get an email telling me someone else has registered for our…

Co-hosted by CTA and MINAGRI, and supported by an impressive array of international organisations working in the fields of ICTs and agriculture, this conference taking place in Kigali, Rwanda on 4-8 November 2013, offers participants the…