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OpenSpending.org: Promoting Transparency in Government Spending

By Denna Millet | Sep 17, 2013

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In an effort to increase transparency and citizen oversight of government spending, a new online project was developed to track government as well as corporate financial transactions throughout the world. Operated by the Open Knowledge Foundation…

EMOTIVE, "Mapping the Mood of a Nation"

By Lesley Dudden | Sep 12, 2013

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It goes almost without saying that Twitter has changed the landscape of how people express and exchange their opinions online. Currently Twitter is host to 554.75 million users with an average of 135,000 new users signing up for…

Taking the "Social" and "Media" out of "Social Media"

By Lindsay Beck | Sep 12, 2013

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Early this summer, the Wall Street Journal published a on the increasing restrictions to free speech online. South East Asia continues to be a region where…

Mobile Phones in International Development: Insecure and Problematic for Security and Privacy

By Katrin Verclas | Sep 08, 2013

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There is a new report by Hibah Hussein, a researcher at the New America Foundation that sharply critiques the lack of privacy and security…

Just Your Average Tech User

By Lesley Dudden | Sep 05, 2013

Lesley here- travel junkie, steak enthusiast, and hardline supporter of the oxford comma. What brings me to ICT, you ask? Good question.

For the last six years I have devoted myself to the study of international affairs and political…

Beyond Repair? Normative Change in Freedom Online

By NDI Tech | Sep 04, 2013

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Cyberspace and all communications associated with the Internet was once idealized as a free and open space in which communications could flow back and forth at liberty. This idea has slowly changed in the last 25 years and we are now seeing the…