All Blog Posts Tagged 'Nepal' (4)

Higher Education and Knowledge Management in the Post MDGs World

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

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Added by Blair Glencorse on June 14, 2013 at 1:56pm — 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

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…

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Added by Blair Glencorse on February 4, 2013 at 2:33am — No Comments

Knowledge sharing workshop in Asia

7th April marks day 1 of the Knowledge sharing workshop in Asia. The third among three different workshops being organised back to back with foci ranging from capturing stories, writing them and sharing , this one focused on the sharing aspect. Primarily geared at IFAD staff in the Asia Pacific, the workshop also has local participants from Nepal who are at loggerheads with participants and resource persons (read facilitators) from FAO, IFAD, KM4DEV, ICIMOD among others. The group is diverse… Continue

Added by Utsav Maden on April 18, 2011 at 3:23pm — No Comments