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Participatory methods and COVID-19: Conducting online focus group discussions in low-resource settings

padmin — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 06:39:40 +0000

Focus group discussions are one of the most formalized and utilized participatory research methods. As a formal qualitative research method, the strength of a focus group discussion relies on the process of discussion rather than the result of the discussion. As such, a good scientific question is whether the virtual focus group is as methodologically [...]

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Here’s Your Guide to Conducting Digital Advocacy

padmin — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 07:11:02 +0000

Advocacy exists so all people can have their voices heard, issues tackled, views considered, rights protected, and thus serves as an organized process of influencing a targeted audience, individuals or institutions into appreciating and achieving a given positive cause. Digital advocacy happens when the advocacy process is done digitally relying on digital tools such as [...]

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A Mega-Thread of Visuals on the Origin, Propagation and Nature of Disinformation

padmin — Mon, 04 May 2020 08:02:46 +0000

Fact-checking and Verification have since long been crucial skills for journalists even before the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, these two must move hand in hand with journalism in order to ensure that facts and the truth are never buried. But with the current environment characterized by social media platforms and 1.56 billion yearly smartphone unit sales, [...]

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Is Open Data Working for Women in Uganda?

padmin — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 08:08:50 +0000

109 years ago, the first-ever international women’s day occurred. This marked the beginning of an annual global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women around the world. This day is also geared towards accelerating gender equality and this year’s celebration was about collective individualism under the theme #EachforEqual. In celebration of Women’s Month [...]

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Citizen Experiences: How to Improve the Usability of Government Websites

padmin — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 08:18:51 +0000

“A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it,” says Alexis de Tocqueville, a famous French diplomat. But de Tocqueville also believed the more people participate in a democracy, the more democratic it becomes. So how can governments increase participation so as to [...]

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How Governments can Incorporate Data Science to Improve Service Delivery

padmin — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 08:28:33 +0000

The existence of tremendous amounts of data has led to an increased interest in analyzing it to extract insightful knowledge and information for decision making. This is why data is currently regarded as the gold of the 21st Century. When obtaining more value from gold, it is minted into coins or fashioned into jewelry, when [...]

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Are we Asking the Right Questions? Data Use in Democracy

padmin — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 08:38:51 +0000

Facebook, founded in February 2004, has over time accumulated its revenue to as high as earning $16.6 billion in a single quarter; which it earned in the last quarter of 2018. For a company that is branded as a free social media and social networking service, one wonders where all this revenue comes from. Online reports [...]

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Civic Participation: How to Use Technology to Participate

padmin — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 08:41:16 +0000

The use of technology in business has greatly transformed the sector by opening up diverse opportunities and changing the way things are done. Today, businesses are able to reach their customers in any location with ease and avail them of whatever they need. Technology has helped build the relationship businesses have with their customer allowing [...]

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A Survival Guide to being a Woman (on the Internet): Feminist Research for a Feminist Internet

padmin — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 08:44:19 +0000

Many internet freedom advocates agree that women and sexual minorities are victims of harassment, doxing, revenge porn, and other pervasive forms of online gender-based violence. However, we are yet to fully understand the impact online gender-based violence has on women in Africa. Currently, there is a lack of robust baseline data coupled with insufficient legal and [...]

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Talking to Your Government: Who’s Actually Listening?

padmin — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:01:59 +0000

What do we think of when we hear the phrase “civic participation”? Do we think of long lines at the polls to vote or sitting in on local government meetings? Technology has completely changed the dynamics of conversation over the past decade. Anyone can send a message to President Trump with a few clicks on [...]

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