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Community knowledge + mobile phones = evidence for policy response

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This morning I jumped on the TransJakarta bus N 1 and travelled to Central Jakarta to the modern and cozy office of PulseLab. JonneCatshoek of Elva.org was presenting about digital citizen engagement strategies for making programmes more effective and accountable. Jonne has been working for the last few years in Georgia and his presentation was about his […]

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Election day in Indonesia

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Election day in Indonesia. 187 million Indonesian can vote today for 19.000 seats in local parliaments and 560 seats in the national parliament (or DPR). 22 million of the voters will vote for the first time. The election are particularly important because the also determine which party will be entitled to present a presidential candidate

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Just Published – Technically sound and politically achievable? A taxonomy of knowledge types and their influence on governance in three South-East Asian countries

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Technically sound and politically achievable? A taxonomy of knowledge types and their influence on governance in three South-East Asian countries ODI Background Notes, February 2012 Arnaldo Pellini, Maria Dolores Alicias, Nguyen Thi Thu Hang and Palmira Permata Bachtiar This Background Note classifies different types of knowledge that aim to influence policy, which is then used

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Policy makers, politicians or intellectuals?

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Should policy makers be intellectuals? This is what Prof. Gary Gutting asks in an interesting article he wrote for the International Herald Tribune. His point of departure is that in his Republic, the Greek philosopher Plato \’put forward the idea of a state ruled by intellectuals who combined comprehensive theoretical knowledge with the practical capacity

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Just published – Book chapter on governance innovations in Asia.

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The book by Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, Stephen J. Bailey, Pekka Valkama, Innovative Trends in Public Governance in Asia, has just been published by IOS Press. I have written, with three colleagues from Evidence Based Policy in Development Network (ebpdn) from Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, one of the chapters (See book website) Governance Reforms in Three Southeast Asian

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