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Getting it Together: Strengthening Transparency, Accountability, Participation and Non-Discrimination with Communication Methods

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2010), 39 pp.

"This Guidance Note suggests concrete ways to enable the people in a country to influence the work of government and public agencies - and in that way ensure democratic development results. While both the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action point to the need for better use of communica ... more

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Applying Local Solutions to Local Problems: Radio Listeners as Agents of Change. An Evaluation of the Impact on Listeners of Radio Programming in Chad and Niger Under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Peace Through Development Project (PDEV)

Karen Greiner

USAID (2010), 45, 7 pp.

"This report documents the results of a two-month field research evaluation in Niger and Chad on the media component of the Peace Through Development (PDEV) program funded by USAID under the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP). Equal Access, a non-governmental organization (NGO) speci ... more

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Civil Society and National Media in Tunisia

Francesco Cavatorta

Paris: Panos Paris (2010), 5 pp.

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Youth Civic Participation in Cambodia: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, and Media

Heng Phoastey, Trak Peaseth, By Virak et al.

Phnom Penh: UNDP Cambodia (2010), 263 pp.

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Guidelines on lobby and advocacy

Huub Sloot, Mariken Gaanderse

Utrecht: ICCO (2010), 52 pp.

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Evidence, Messages, Change! An Introductory Guide to Successful Advocacy

Rachel Aicher, Fiona Napier, Russell Pickard

New York; London: Open Society Institute;Open Society Foundation (2010), 24 pp.

"This guide outlines important, basic steps to ensure that your advocacy is as effective as possible. It draws on learning within the Open Society Foundations’ network, especially the experiences of our advocacy colleagues, as well as resources from other organizations. Understanding of and engage ... more

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International Journalism and Democracy: Civic Engagement Models from Around the World

Angela Romano (ed.)

New York: Routledge (2010), ix, 251 pp.

"This book examines different models from around the world of how journalism can support deliberation - the processes in which societies recognize and discuss the issues that affect them, appraise the potential responses, and make decisions about whether and how to take action. Authors from across t ... more

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Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran

Annabelle Sreberny, Gholam Khiabany

London; New York: Tauris (2010), xiii, 211 pp.

"The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and new media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were thought to have played a key role in spreadin ... more

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Comunicación estratégica: Valor agregado para una ONG. Caso testigo: Vecinos por la Carta y su incidencia en la reforma de la Carta Orgánica de Bariloche

Noelia García Villamil

Buenos Aires: Vecinos por la Carta;Avina (2010), 141 pp.

"Para los que trabajamos en la Representación Patagonia de la Fundación AVINA Argentina fue una oportunidad extraordinaria poder acompañar, muy próximos, a un puñado abierto y generoso de ciudadanos de San Carlos de Bariloche que decidió incidir directamente en el proceso de la reforma de su C ... arta Orgánica. Ello les significó organizarse, capacitarse, obtener recursos, planificar, evaluar durante la marcha y ejecutar una gran variedad de acciones para cumplir con las metas que se fijaron oportunamente. El resultado fue exitoso pues, sobre todo, a través del grupo que conformaron: Vecinos por la Carta, adquirieron una enorme experiencia ciudadana, afianzaron sus relaciones y confianzas mutuas y, más aún, lograron que al menos unos veinte artículos del nuevo texto legal reflejara sus propuestas. También trabajaron para que el Reglamento Interno de la Convención contribuyera decididamente a la participación de todo quien lo quiso hacer. Desde las incipientes reuniones preparatorias quedó en claro que una de las herramientas principales que deberían emplear con profesionalismo, astucia y perseverancia era los medios de comunicación social convertidos como tales pues, los mismos, también contribuyen a informar, formar opinión, alentar intercambios de ideas y pueden llegar a incidir en las reflexiones y propuestas de quienes deben, en última instancia, votar a favor o en contra de las decisiones colegiadas. Entonces comenzó la búsqueda de un conocedor en la materia y, afortunadamente, encontraron a Noelia García Villamil quien, con entusiasmo y ciencia, asumió la tarea de asistir a Vecinos por la Carta en cuanto a la planificación, preparación, ejecución y evaluación de un Plan específico con respecto a los medios de comunicación social como extraordinarios vehículos de información y debate de acceso público. Una vez finalizado el notable proceso de incidencia pública, a través del involucramiento activo y responsable de ciudadanos, Vecinos por la Carta y la Fundación AVINA seguimos mancomunados, con el acompañamiento de Silvana De Falco y los aportes de Ramiro Fernández. Este libro es una sistematización de la tarea realizada exitosamente que busca, entre otras cuestiones, difundir lo realizado para que otros pobladores perciban la importancia de contar con el concurso de profesionales en la materia, analizar el comportamiento de los distintos diarios, cotejar los contenidos y las formas de la inserción en las páginas publicadas, la gravitación pública del grupo autoconvocado con relación a los partidos políticos con abundantes recursos económicos y humanos, etcétera." (Prólogo, páginas 9-10) more

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Change at Hand: Web 2.0 for Development
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Holly Ashley, Jon Corbett, Ben Garside, Giacamo Rambaldi (eds.)

London; Wageningen: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED);Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2009), 136 pp.

"Web 2.0 for development (Web2forDev) is a way of employing web services to intentionally improve information-sharing and collaborative production of content for development. It is about how development actors can relate and connect to other stakeholders, produce and publish their own material, deci ... more

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Election Times: Harnessing the Power of New Media. International Media Conference by the International Institute for Journalism in Cooperation with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Astrid Kohl, Melanie Wieland (eds.)

Bonn; Berlin: InWEnt;International Institute for Journalism (IIJ) (2009), 50 pp.

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Measuring Change and Results in Voice and Accountability Work

Jeremy Holland, Allyson Thirkell

London; Glasgow: Department for International Development (DFID) (2009), v, 72 pp.

"This Working Paper from DFID’s Evaluation Department offers a menu of Voice & Accountability (V&A) indicators, and suggests steps for building monitoring and evaluation frameworks for V&A interventions. It provides a check list of management issues, and some ideas for data collection. It does not ... more

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Irradiar ciudadanías: Construcciones ciudadanas y esferas públicas

Daniel Guillermo Valencia Nieto

Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura (2009), 15 pp.

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Comunicación y construcción de ciudadanía: Aportes para el desarrollo

Laura Cárdenas Lorenzo

Madrid: Libros de la Catarata;Instituto Universitario de Desarrollo y Cooperación (IUDC-UCM) (2009), 157 pp.

"Esta obra parte de la idea de que sin comunicación no es posible el desarrollo, pues ésta compromete de manera participativa a todos los sectores que conforman nuestras sociedades. A pesar de la existencia de innumerables medios masivos, locales y globales, y de nuevas tecnologías de la informac ... more

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Exploring the Role of Civil Society in the Formulation and Adoption of Access to Information Laws: The Cases of Bulgaria, India, Mexico, South Africa, and the United Kingdom

Andrew Puddephatt

Washington, DC: World Bank;World Bank Institute (2009), vii, 45 pp.

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The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online

Guobin Yang

New York: Columbia University Press (2009), xv, 302 pp.

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Transforming Public Space: A Local Radio's Work in a Poor Urban Community

Dora Navarro

Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 621-629

"Among processes towards democratisation, it has been asserted that alternative radio has a central role in the citizen making of the poor. However, it is important to analyse in detail what possibilities an alternative or citizens' radio has to strengthen ideas of citizenship and transform the publ ... more

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Winning the Web: Stories of Grassroots Campaigning for Access to Knowledge in the Networked Digital Age

Becky Hogge

Open Society Institute (2009), 49 pp.

"This report has looked at six successful intellectual property (IP) reform campaigns from around the world, and examined the strategies, messages and goals of the campaigners who fought them. Although each example has its own lessons to share, broad trends have emerged. Several of the most striking ... more

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Protest in Ägypten: Wie Al-Jazeera und andere Medien die Kifaya-Bewegung möglich machten

Jan Michael Schäfer

Berlin: Frank & Timme (2009), 147 pp.

"kifaya! – „Es reicht!“ Lautstark protestieren Menschen auf Kairos Straßen gegen Präsident Mubarak und seine Regierung. Sie fordern demokratischen Wandel. Arabische Fernsehsender und neue Zeitungen in Ägypten berichten ausführlich über die Kifaya-Bewegung. Sie ist klein, aber nicht zu üb ... more

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Joint Evaluation of Citizens' Voice & Accountability: Synthesis Report

Alina Rocha Menocal, Bhavna Sharma

London: Department for International Development (DFID) (2008), xxi, 109 pp.

"Citizens’ Voice and Accountability (CV&A) work has emerged as a priority in the international development agenda from the 1990s onwards. In their CV&A work, donors recognise the importance of context: it shapes relation to that context. However, context awareness has not proven sufficient to enab ... more

Change at Hand: Web 2.0 for Development Inspiring Practice

Change at Hand: Web 2.0 for Development
Inspiring Practice