Often it is the simple things that make major impacts, and engaging citizens for better development results is a very simple concept. However, at a time when participatory ap...
http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/mooc-engaging-citizens-game-changer-development
In The Know is your daily briefing on Oklahoma policy-related news. Inclusion of a story does not necessarily mean endorsement by the Oklahoma Policy institute. Click here [ht...
http://okpolicy.org/know-state-finance-secretary-blasts-tulsa-chamber-leader-criticizing-tax-cuts
Maureen Cavanagh was recently named President of the Vision Impact institute [http://visionimpactinstitute.org/], currently supported by Essilor. The mission of the Vision Imp...
Concerns over deforestation have led to attempts to identify suitable areas for reforestation around the world (1). The most ambitious effort to date is the world resources In...
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/351/6269/120.abstract?rss=1
The United States Navy just struck an iceberg. It won’t sink the fleet, but it will damage its ability to deter emerging global conflicts. And one of those challenges became...
CES has already given us plenty of news about drones and cars, it’s even given us drones that launch from the back of trucks [http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/4/10708140/dji-f...
http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10721654/electric-self-flying-quadcopter-ehang-184-ces-2016
The benefits of openness can be found around the globe. In these past few years working with local transparency activists, I have been collecting examples on how opening up d...
http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2016/01/06/arguments-for-data-transparency-a-list-for-advocates/
[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vX8kurJm0os/VorHbhYLxNI/AAAAAAAAO6o/Yv_VeBoDIRI/s1600/Egypt%252C%2BSudan%252C%2BEthiopia%2B-%2Bnile.jpg] TPLF's only options are to accept Al-Sisi'...
http://www.madote.com/2016/01/the-dam-nation-of-ethiopia-by-tplf.html
Microsoft If you want to get a sense of how Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella thinks he's doing at his job, now nearly two years in, he gave the world a hint on Thursday. That'...
OUR TOP TEN BLOG POSTS BY READERSHIP IN 2015. This post was originally posted [http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/bill-easterly-and-denial-inconvenient-truths] [http:...
http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/4-2015-bill-easterly-and-denial-inconvenient-truths
Rafael Cruz [http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/rafael-cruz], father of senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz [http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/t...
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/we-read-rafael-cruzs-book-so-you-dont-have
Reeling from a string of defeats, environmental and climate activists seized on the tar sands pipeline to rediscover how to rally large numbers of people. In 2011, Bill McKi...