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Making data work for social good requires bolder approaches to managing government data as a critical public asset.
Data as a government asset
What is the value of open data…
We should look to the Nordic countries for inspiration on how to overcome the 1 percent and address climate change.
According to the latest report from the United Nation…
Researchers hope to learn more about how countries might act in nuclear warfare scenarios.
Researchers designed the game to explore how various weapons capabilities, such as low-…
Development Studies alumnus and journalist, Scott Carpenter, summarises and shares his analysis of a new working paper from the IMF which suggests we need a closer…
Leah Clark finds evidence of globalisation in art.
For many, the Renaissance was the revival or “rebirth” of Western classical antiquity, associated with great artists painting…
James Ranger attempts to address the issue of what ‘being’ political is all about and why answering the conundrum matters.
When political theorists debate the nature of the ‘…
Duncan Green on what INGOs can do in fast developing semi-authoritarian countries.
Oxfam country directors face an unenviable task – juggling the daily management bureaucracy of…
To mark Europe Day, 2019 – Charta 2020 is a vision for a democratic and egalitarian European Union, and a demand to recognize 20 European public goods that are essential to the…
Technology has massive potential to deliver a positive impact on our society – when people are at the heart of it. Civil society organizations have been harnessing technology to…
Book Review – Loss and Damage from Climate Change: Concepts, Methods and Policy Options edited by R. Mechler, L. Bouwer, T. Schinko, S. Surminski, and J. Linnerooth-Bayer.…