#BreakingNews : Institute of Development Studies & University of Sussex have retained their 1st in the world ranking for #DevelopmentStudies again ids.ac.uk/news/sussex-re… Photo shows 2 of my amazing students! 'What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves” P Freire

We're recruiting a post-doctoral researcher for a new project about Southern African rangelands.
jobs.ids.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

The job's based at Institute of Development Studies & involves critically examining 'nature based solutions', resilience and equity in pastoral systems in Southern Africa

Looking forward to this discussion of understanding and navigating change towards responsiveness and accountability! International Budget Partnership Open Gov Partnership Accountability Lab Governance Action Hub Duncan Edwards CathyShutt

The biggest scam of a policy, effectively punishing parents working full-time: Our nursery costs have now gone up rather than down despite receiving 15 funded hours. Bonkers! independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

🚨Hot off the press! Advance copies of new African Digital Rights Network book landed ahead of April 18th publication & then launch at #DRIF24 . First ever book dedicated to #disinformation across Africa. 12 scholars from 10 countries document & analyse key episodes of digital disinfo & #DigitalRights

Ahead of the seminar tomorrow - excited to read about proposed bill on Zero rating of access to NHS and Government websites #digitalexclusion #digitalbydefault
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

How to address the fragmentation in governing our digital world, while highlighting the role of digital technologies for an inclusive public sphere?
UN Development is launching a new report on this theme!
Join us and Global Governance Centre!
🕘12 March, 12.15pm CET
🗓️bit.ly/3uX7hsO

Potentially interesting to #ogp folks

JOB OPPORTUNITY! Come work with me! Goldsmiths, University of London is recruiting a 3-year postdoc to work on the AI Justice research programme. Open to full-time or part-time applicants. Deadline is 24th of March. Details here: jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/postdo…

.SOAS ACE approach flips Anti-Corruption on its head - we start by looking for opportunities in a sector where the politics are conducive to addressing #corruption problems. Mushtaq Khan

Government is not a business and we are not its customers. Seeing the public as a customer base implies that we can choose through consumer actions, but the reality is that we choose through democratic processes that rely on effective governance.

This pancake day, let us not forget what is important: that Yorkshire pudding batter is essentially the exact same thing as pancake batter, but creates a much better end product.

Past time to tax billionaires. Simon Kuper Financial Times lays out a compelling case. Now, we need support for the smart design of wealth #taxes and investment in civil society and academic partners who help drive and sustain reform. linkedin.com/pulse/past-tim… via LinkedIn

🚨 We are excited to announce that The Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme (GI ACE) is coming to Centre for the Study of Corruption with a major grant over 3.5 years with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
to fund new research into global corruption…

Ulises Mejias’s and my new book Data Grab on #DataColonialism is OUT TODAY!!! lnk.to/DataGrabBook. US edition out in March. Huge thanks to the team at W.H. Allen for their support Penguin Books UK Ebury Publishing LSE Media & Communications Ulises Ali Mejias

on February 8 Ulises Ali Mejias and I launch our Penguin book #DATAGRAB on data colonialism which we hope will bring these ideas to many new readers. We're excited!! For how-to-buy link see my profile lnk.to/DataGrabBook

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Thank you for the thread about our webinar, I hope many people will join this conversation, there is so much to be discussed - there MUST be a better way for all of these health workers, and for patients too! Eleanor Hutchinson Dina Balabanova Charles l, Jen, Health Systems Global Dublin City University