All Blog Posts Tagged 'Liberia' (7)

The Importance of Spirit: The Strengths and Limitations of ICT in Development

By: Mitchell Sommers, Accountability Lab Resident

During the 2013 World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings, I attended a panel on “Development in a Digital Age,” which featured representative experts from the Institute of the Future (IFTF),Facebook, various…

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Added by Mitchell Eric Sommers on November 14, 2013 at 11:23pm — 1 Comment

Film-Making as a Powerful Tool in Accountability and Social Change

(Students accepting their certificates at the Accountability Film Festival)

By Lawrence Yealue and Francis Lansana, Accountability Lab Liberia

There are often complaints in Liberia about inequality and corruption, but in many cases little effort is made to validate…

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Added by Mitchell Eric Sommers on October 17, 2013 at 9:08pm — No Comments

Graft-busting tours of Nepal and Liberia to showcase grassroots activism

http://bloggingonaccountability.org/2013/10/07/graft-busting-tours-of-nepal-and-liberia-to-showcase-grassroots-activism/

By: Stella Dawson. This post was originally published by …

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Added by Mitchell Eric Sommers on October 8, 2013 at 5:56am — No Comments

MPs not VIPs: US$55M on Cars but Liberians Live Under Poverty Line

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…

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Added by Anne Sophie Lambert on July 8, 2013 at 7:01pm — No Comments

The Responsibility to Use Information

By Blair Glencorse and Narayan Adhikari. The Right to Information (RTI) or Freedom of Information (FoI) movement has made huge strides since the first FoI law was enacted in Sweden in 1766. Freedom of Information was included (as Article 19) in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, described by…

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Added by Blair Glencorse on April 3, 2013 at 1:34am — No Comments

The Victims of Corruption

Last week at the OpenGovHub- the Accountability Lab’s home- we listened to two heavyweights in the fight against corruption: Frank Vogl, Co-founder of both Transparency International and The Partnership for Transparency Fund; and…

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Added by Anne Sophie Lambert on February 7, 2013 at 3:35pm — No Comments

Re-Imagining the Relationship of Citizens to Power-Holders Through “Accountapreneurship”.

Spending time on the ground in countries like Liberia and Nepal, it soon becomes clear that despite good intentions, we still have very little idea how best to support the accountability of power-holders to citizens. There are hundreds of organizations working on corruption, transparency and accountability (words which are themselves confused and used inter-changeably); but…