Archive | January 2013
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. Read More…
Accountability Innovations We Love, No 6: E-Participation
Discussing e-governance in Cape Verde. Credit: NOSI
Useful Versus Useless Transparency
By Anne-Sophie Lambert, Accountability Lab Resident
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.” Read More…
