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Blogpost l Participant confidentiality and open access to research data
19 February 2013 | access-to-data, data, methodology, open access, researchWhile protecting human subjects’ confidentiality is a long-standing practice in the social sciences, new types of digital datasets present new challenges. Tensions between privacy and openness were...
Research to Action launched alongside 3ie PIM workshop in Cornwall
01 October 2012 | evaluation, event, evidence-based, launch, researchThis week saw a meeting of international delegates involved in the Policy Influence Monitoring (PIM) project, funded by the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), in Cornwall. To...
Research Consultancy: Comparative Research on ICTs and Governance Data in Arab Region
14 September 2012 | arab states, consultancy, ict, opportunity, research, technologyUNDP Regional Center in Cairo and Oslo Governance Centre seek a consultant to conduct comparative research on ICT and governance data initiatives. This research will support the Regional Governance...
Study: Happiest countries have press freedom
27 August 2012 | blogpost, commentary, correlation, happiness, media, press freedom, research, study, well-beingFreedom of the press is a reliable indicator of a country’s happiness, journalism doctoral student Edson Tandoc Jr. concludes in a new study. Tandoc and Michigan State University’s Bruno Takahashi...
Vacancy: Consultant for Community of Practice
28 June 2012 | accountability, impact, research, transparencyWe are seeking an experienced community of practice building expert to provide advice on setting up a community of practice around impact assessment and learning in the transparency and...
Internet Use and Democratic Demands: A Multinational, Multilevel Model of Internet Use and Citizen Attitudes about Democracy – Journalist's Resource: Research for Reporting, from Harvard Shorenstein Center
16 April 2012 | access-to-info, civ action, comparative, correlation, ict, publication, research, social accountability, study, technologyThe global relationship between the Internet and democracy has become a subject of great scholarly interest and debate. Prior research has focused on national Internet penetration and use rates and...
Blogpost: Inequality post 2015
14 March 2012 | aid, inequality, mdgs, measurement, methodology, odi, post-2015, research, targets[...] The MDGs don't have much to say about inequality. The targets are all about averages. The target for income poverty, for example, is to halve it by 2015. For maternal mortality, it is to bring...
Stanford's Fukuyama launches new project to measure governance - FSI Stanford
12 March 2012 | china, initiative, research, usaMeasuring the quality of governance is a challenge for social scientists trying to assess a country’s ability to deliver public services to its citizens. Francis Fukuyama, the Olivier Nomellini...
Call for Papers: Internet Center for Corruption Research
01 March 2012 | cfp, opportunity, paper, researchCall for Papers A special Issue on Corruption at the Grassroots-level - Between Temptation, Norms, and Culture of the Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für...
Call for Papers: Russian Summer School on Institutional Analysis (RSSIA 2012) — ACRN
29 February 2012 | cfp, event, integrity, opportunity, public admin, researchThe Center for Institutional Studies, National Research University - Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), announces the call for papers for the annual Russian Summer School on Institutional...