Is "Citizen Engagement Platform" pretty much the last thing you should call your citizen engagement platform? citizens.ec.europa.eu/index_en

#Advocacy #Government | Anjali Neelakantan and Veena Srinivasan outline why simulations may be a more viable alternative to pilots for ensuring the optimal allocation of government funds and forecasting outcomes. Read here to learn more. WELL Labs idronline.org/article/advoca…

"Every manual deposited in that box was a sign of my intention to care for the thingamajig it came with." Love @shannonmattern history of repair manuals, even as I find myself trying to persuade a kid to fix things for me placesjournal.org/article/step-b…

#Garbal: The tech that helps Herders in the Sahel and Savanna areas of West Africa navigate drought, war, and extremists by Hannah Rae Armstrong. Cc: Alex Orenstein 🐂🐪🗺️ @NugterenHenk RBM Maroobè SNV - find us on Bluesky as snv.org #AdamHigazi technologyreview.com/2024/03/01/108…

On Monday I asked, "how might systems thinking transform belief systems?". Today, Professor Ann Light Malmö University & colleagues have posted "Nine dimensions of transformative change through creative practice" creaturesframework.org/funding/creatu…

On Earth🌏Day,UNDP Accelerator Labs launches UNTAPPED: Collective Intelligence for Climate Action 1st-of-its-kind research demonstrating how collective intelligence can generate more real-time, hyper-local climate data & mobilize people for climate action RSVP: undpacclabs.com/untapped

📍Meet #WGICteam at @GEOBusinessShow in #London on June 5-6! 🌍 Join WGIC Exec. Dir. @Aaron_WGIC's keynote on “Future of Geospatial” on June 5, 10:30-11:30 AM (BST) at the Main Stage.📅🕥 🤝 Visit Booth #G310 to learn about #partnership_opportunities. 🔗 wgicouncil.org/event/geo-busi…

Taking things apart, cleaning them, and putting them back together again is extremely soothing.

A few minutes ago, Unit 4 turbo-generator at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station desynced from the GB grid system, marking the END of electricity generation from COAL after 142 years 🇬🇧🙏🏻 Rob Burnett and I present a 🪡🧵on the evolution of coal fired power from 1882 to today 1/n

Really interesting report on Freetown the Treetown campaign: "for every USD 1 invested in this project, the societal return is USD 2.94" nbi.iisd.org/report/tree-pl…

[Interesting framing] The role played by a culture of possibility for regional development tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Someone (specifically, Nadia Asparouhova) did, and we did :D It is an excellent book about how open source software is *actually* created and maintained, and why those patterns map onto online communities more broadly.

“Collaboration is the new currency”

When farmer Chris Conder dug her own fibreoptic cables on her property in Lancashire, she set out “to prove that ordinary people could do it … it wasn’t rocket science” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

"Open Source Nest is an initiative to localise open source and make it more relatable and accessible to Africans" opensourcenest.org

A framework for satellite-based national agricultural monitoring for the African context nature.com/articles/s4426…

MijiBora is a collaborative platform supporting African cities to unlock bold, people-centered digital solutions for urban transformation mijibora.africa

Mapping grassroots agricultural innovation in Africa sdg-innovation-commons.org/next-practices…

Systemic investing for social change: a starter kit papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

"Kenya’s digital climate advisories now serve 4.8 million farmers - 62 percent of the total - with coverage expected to rise to 91 percent, or 7.4 million, by 2030" blogs.worldbank.org/en/agfood/can-…