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Action for Accountability
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)The Action for Accountability (A4A) project aims to support communities to organize and lead cooperation between our communities and local leaders.
Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM)
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)PSAM’s activities include research, monitoring, advocacy and capacity building. Working through southern Africa, PSAM generates and shares knowledge about social accountability and the monitoring and advocacy tools that can build more open, participatory and accountable governments.
GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit for Elections
United States of America (the)Free and effective tools you can use today to take immediate action to improve the cybersecurity and integrity of our elections.
GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit for Journalists
United States of America (the)Free and effective tools you can use right now to take action to improve the cybersecurity and integrity of your newsroom.
Empowering the New Mobility Workforce: Educating, Training, and Inspiring Future Transportation Professionals enlists a multidisciplinary roster of subject matter specialists who identify the priorities and strategies for cultivating a skilled workforce for the rapidly changing transportation landscape
This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers
The contributions in this volume map out how technologies are used and designed to plan, maintain, govern, demolish, and destroy the city.
Globally, Smart Cities initiatives are pursued which reproduce the interests of capital and neoliberal government, rather than wider public good. This book explores smart urbanism and 'the right to the city', examining citizenship, social justice, commoning, civic participation, and co-creation to imagine a different kind of Smart City.
Encompassing community development, organizing, planning, and social change, as well as globalisation, this book is grounded in participatory and empowerment practice
This book provides a new analytical perspective on the strategies, membership and communication management of political parties in Poland
The Handbook of Party Politics is the first book to comprehensively map the state-of-the-art in contemporary party politics scholarship
Using numerous cities from different regions around the globe, the book compares how smart cities of different sizes are evolving in different countries and continents.
In democratic societies there is widespread acknowledgment of the need to incorporate citizens’ input in decision-making processes in more or less structured ways.
Social innovations are products, services and models that meet social needs and generate new social connections or collaborations.
The world is a heavily segregated place where we are first separated by the seven continents, broken down into many countries, then by cities, trickling all the way down to towns branching off into neighborhoods and individual homes that ...
Data and Society: A Critical Introduction investigates the growing importance of data as a technological, social, economic and scientific resource.
In community citizen science, laypeople control research, working with professional scientists and performing research on their own. This report describes its potential uses, implementation needs and challenges, and ways to effect change.
Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour
This book critically examines ‘smart city’ discourse in terms of governance initiatives, citizen participation and policies which place emphasis on the ‘citizen’ as an active recipient and co-producer of technological solutions to ...
This volumes examines two major developments in contemporary democratic politics-- the change in party-society linkage and political personalization--and their relation to each other
Using case studies from around the world, this book analyzes the recent wave of social movement and protests.
Social networking is one of the most common online activities, and integral to the lives of people around the world
The Deliberative Democracy Handbook is a terrific resource for democratic practitioners and theorists alike
In this thesis, I will perform a rhetorical analysis of two primary actors involved in the smart city movement: corporate actors and academic observers. Rhetoric is discourse, and discourse wields power.
Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives, this book examines questions of youth citizenship and participation by exploring their meanings in policy, practice and youth experience. It examines young people's participation in non-government and youth-led organisations, and asks what can be done to bridge the democratic disconnect.
These debates have, however, taken place before the rise of open data and big data and the development of an open data movement. The book considers the role of the open data movement in fostering transformation to a knowledge society.
As the contributors to The City Is the Factory argue, this resurgent politics of the square is itself part of a broader shift in the primary locations and targets of popular protest from the workplace to the city.
Connor shares how she helped her online community surpass 11,000 members in 18 short months in this definitive guide for those seeking to facilitate and grow online communities and develop social media strategies for themselves or their
Mair examines how we interpret the evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems
In the process, this book argues that scholars need to understand how technological development around politics happens in time and how the dynamics on display during presidential cycles are the outcome of longer processes
This book is an invaluable resource for readers in the established fields and professions of design, architecture, urban design, and city planning as well as the emerging fields of urban technology and urban interaction design.
Smart cities are now prevalent around the world, in large part because the smart city promises to create a more efficient, equitable, innovative, competitive, sustainable and livable community
In this book, the narrator learns about the importance of rules in a community
This book looks at what makes a city smart by describing, challenging, and offering democratic alternatives to the view that the answer begins and ends with technology.
Exploring the relationship between technology and cities, this book brings together an outstanding group of authors in the field to provide a critical and necessary examination of the disruption that is under way.
Focusing on case studies in areas which are undergoing major social and institutional transformation and/or which raise particular issues because of the "marginal" position of the areas within their nation-states...
The book presents evidence of a desire for change in party ethos, introducing the idea of the re-imagined party to explore perceptions of party representation, participation, governance and conduct
It is for these reasons that this is a worthwhile topic to be examined in this paper: What impact has the digital revolution of the German Pirate Party on direct democracy in Germany and how does it affect the transparency of an ...
This Primer analyse these new forms of political party membership and presents how different parties and contexts have given birth to different ways of engaging citizens in the party’s life
The book grapples with how geographies impact smart city visions and roll-outs, on the one hand, and how (unjust) geographies are produced in smart pursuits, on the other.
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