The Lab Partners with BSC Monrovia
The Lab is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Business Start-Up Center, Monrovia, to jointly contribute resources to shared goals. These include the productive engagement of students and young people for the prosperity and stability of Liberia. The two organizations will collaborate on programs and training. Read More…
The Lab Launches the Liberia Accountapreneurship Fund!
The Accountability Lab is excited to launch a new support tool for Liberians with innovative accountability ideas. The Liberia “Accountapreneurship” Fund (LAF) will identify “accountapreneurs” (individuals, groups or organizations that demonstrate an entrepreneurial approach to accountability issues); provide catalytic grants to these accountapreneurs for small-scale, innovative and sustainable approaches to accountability and transparency; support effective implementation of ideas through training, mentoring, and networking; and ensure sustainability through connecting accountapreneurs to additional local and national funding sources. Read More…
The Lab welcomes Narayan Adhikari as the Country Representative for Nepal!
The Accountability Lab is very excited to have Narayan Adhikari on the team as Country Representative for Nepal. Narayan will lead the accountability work from Kathmandu- including the Nepal Accountapreneurship Fund and the @ccountability Initiative- with his experience in youth, anti-corruption and development. Read More…
The Victims of Corruption
By Anne-Sophie Lambert, Accountability Lab Resident.
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 Ronald MacLean-Abaroa, who pioneered bold and effective anti-corruption reforms as mayor of La Paz, Bolivia. Read More…
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. 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…
Accountapreneurship in Nepal
This piece is an edited version of an interview originally published in Republica on December 25th, 2012 at: http://myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=47101
Accountapreneurship in Nepal: How can You be Involved?
YUKTA BAJRACHARYA
KATHMANDU, Dec 24: “There are plenty of Nepalis with brilliant ideas, but these do not always have the support they need to move from conception to implementation,” says Blair Glencorse, Founder and Executive Director of Accountability Lab. Read More…
Young and Wired
Meeting to discuss accountability issues in Nepal
Failure, Innovation, Communities and Technology- the Accountability Agenda
Protesters calling for greater accountability of Malaysia’s government march on the centre of the capital Kuala Lumpur, April 29, 2012. REUTERS/Tim Chong
This post was originally posted on the Trustlaw Governance website here
By Luke Balleny
LONDON (TrustLaw) – Holding decision-makers to account is hard work and embracing failure is a key step for those trying to bring about greater accountability in the developing world to understand what works, Blair Glencorse, founder and executive director of Accountability Lab says. Read More…
