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This Week in Transparency: What is Governance?

by David Sasaki | Feb 8, 2013 | English, Omidyar Network, Open Government, Transparency Digest, Work

Links Last week Ivan Krastev published “The Transparency Conspiracy,” which argues that greater government transparency will not “restore citizens’ faith in their political institutions.” (Krastev made a similar argument in a recent TED talk,...

Rebooting Investigative Journalism

by David Sasaki | Jan 25, 2013 | English, Omidyar Network, Work

This post is long and not every section is relevant to every reader. Please feel encouraged to skip to those sections that are most relevant. Opening Up Philanthropic Strategizing The Long View of Media Development A Survey of the Media Donor Landscape Media for...

This Week in Transparency: The Viral Flu App & Dirty Restaurants

by David Sasaki | Jan 18, 2013 | English, Omidyar Network, Open Government, Transparency Digest, Work

The “Get a Flu Shot” app is an interesting case study of how civic apps can replicate across cities if there is sufficient demand and if the pre-existing relationships are in place. In less than 36 hours the app, which was originally created in Chicago, was replicated in Boston thanks to the facilitation of Code for America.

Non-Profit Journalism in Central America

by David Sasaki | Nov 3, 2010 | English

I’m in Central America for the next two weeks to try to better understand a new phenomenon — the rise of small, online, non-profit, investigative journalism projects. They tend to be led by the giants of Latin American journalism who over the decades have...

Rising Voices, Helping the Global Population Take Part in the Global Conversation

by David Sasaki | May 23, 2007 | English

Cross-posted at Global Voices. Thanks to the generous support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Global Voices is now starting a new outreach project, Rising Voices, which aims to spread the benefits of citizen media to regions, languages, and communities...