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Egypt: Catch the Former Regime Remnants
Last April, an Egyptian court ordered the dissolution of the political organization that ruled the nation for decades. Its members are however reinventing themselves, joining the lists of candidates vying for November's parliamentary elections. See how netizens have joined hands to expose them.
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Global: Online Dialogue on Technology for Transparency 21 September 2011
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Technology for Transparency: Final Report 22 May 2011
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Technology for Transparency: Government Accountability in India 11 November 2010
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Benin: Text Messages to Help Protect Children Against Violence: Lessons Learned 19 October 2010
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Russia: Landscape and Trends of Online Transparency Initiatives 30 September 2010
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27 December 2011
‘Developing Latin America': Open Data Projects
The 'Desarrollando Latin América' (Developing Latin America) competition, a public hackathon for creating technological solutions to education, security and budgetary problems in six countries in the region, took place on the 3rd and 4th of December. Juan Arellano, who acted as a judge in Lima (Peru), summarises the results and the reactions from the participants.
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2 December 2011
Slovakia: Visualising Business Registry Data with Vorsr.sk
Vorsr.sk is a tool for visual exploration of Slovakia's business registry. It treats the information as one big social network, grabbing the newest data live and delivering up-to-date connections of searched for individuals. This interview features the project's Co-founder Michal Habala.
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11 November 2011
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Ukraine: YouTube Helps Discipline Traffic Police
Tetyana Bohdanova reports on how Ukrainians are using the Internet to expose unlawful actions committed by traffic police.
I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What...