Making All Voices Count: Video and transcript of a Dec. 5 Washington event to launch a “Grand Challenge for Development,” a $45 million fund to support innovation, scaling-up, and research that will deepen existing innovations and help harness new technologies to enable citizen engagement and government responsiveness. It is sponsored by Sweden, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and Omidyar Network (ON). http://www.makingallvoicescount.org/
EITI: Implementing EITI for Impact: A Handbook for Policy Makers and Stakeholders, a World Bank publication edited by Anwar Ravat and Sridar P. Kannan.
South Africa: The Right2Know campaign has assembled and archive of documents about the Protection of State Information bill and the campaign against it.
Open Data: Slides from presentation at the Dec. 5 OGP meeting by Irina Bolychevsky of CKAN.
United States: The Defense Department drafts rules on what FOI activities can’t be done by private contractors, Bloomberg reports.
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