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Digital Technologies And The Arab Spring – Part two

3 August 2011 in Africa and Middle East, People power, Technology

In the second part of his article, Johnny West, author of a new book based on his personal experience of the Arab Spring, writes about the potential of social media in the post-revolution Arab world. Read part one here. In Tunisia, digital technologies have started to provide transparency in the political arena in an interesting […]

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Digital Technologies And The Arab Spring – Part one

2 August 2011 in Africa and Middle East, People power, Technology

In a two-part article, Johnny West, author of a new book based on his personal experience of the Arab Spring, writes about the role of social media in the revolution. Sometimes hype is justified. Earlier this year, the airwaves and opinion columns of media around the world were full of talk of Facebook revolution in […]

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Looking back at Davos – Part two

3 February 2011 in Anti-corruption Conventions, Private sector

Cobus de Swardt, Managing Director at Transparency International, reflects on the G20, the historic events in the Middle East, and social media and transparency at the 2011 Davos meeting: Looking back, I was struck that there was no longer a great sense of urgency about the economic crisis. Even though the G20 was on the […]

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Join the International Anti-Corruption Conference

10 November 2010 in Anti-corruption movement, Asia Pacific

Just to highlight again that the anti-corruption movement is gathering in Bangkok for the 14th International Anti-Corruption Conference until 13 November! Join discussions online, through the livestream, and through social media supported by our group of amazing Young Journalists. Tweet #14iacc, blog and see the pictures at https://14iacc.org/social Or meet you up in person at […]

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Have the rules changed? A brief look on what has happened since the 13th IACC

4 November 2010 in Anti-corruption movement, Technology

Crossposting from the Accountability2.0 blog, a blog started at the 13th International Anti-Corruption Conference looking at how social media has changed how we are fighting corruption. Are citizens changing the rule of the game? This year, the International Anti-Corruption Conference has not only a session, but a whole stream focussing on a wide range of […]

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Anti-corruption Day: What does it stand for?

9 December 2009 in Africa and Middle East, Americas, Anti-corruption Conventions, Anti-corruption movement, Asia Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Events, Measurement and Research, Region

9 December is international Anti-Corruption Day. In Bangladesh people are getting together to shout Jago Manush Durnity Protirodhe Jago (Rise up people, rise up against corruption) during the multitude of activities organised nation-wide. In Indonesia thousands are on the street. Around the world, Transparency International is taking Anti-Corruption Day as an opportunity to commemorate and […]

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