Journal Issue: Development Outreach, Volume 13, Issue 2
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The Contours and Possibilities of Open Development
(2011-09) Pradhan, Sanjay; Odugbemi, Sina
Is the idea of open development another vague, endlessly elastic term capturing what is merely a passing mood, a fad? The goal of this issue of Development Outreach is to strike a resounding No. We will define open development in a clear and robust manner; and we will show that, rather than being a passing fancy, the idea of open development actually captures an emerging paradigm shift in how development is being done. We are also going to show that this new paradigm will endure. Before we define what open development is, however, we need to understand what the vanishing development paradigm has been.
A Timeline of Development Economics at the World Bank
(2011-09) Zoellick, Robert
A Timeline of Development Economics at the World Bank, adapted from "Democratizing Development Economics," a speech by World Bank President Robert Zoellick at Georgetown University, September 29, 2010.
Open Development : Beyond Proprietary Solutions
(2011-09) Gregorio-Medel, Angge
Information is power—this is not new—but information in the hands of activist citizen groups can determine the course of national development. Information technology, the open source system in particular, has begun to revolutionize the people-centered development movement, contributing
to a phenomenon called open development.
The open source system enables
citizens to access resources that used
to be held only by experts in the form
of knowledge and influence.
12 Country Comparisons on Research, Technology, and More
(2011-09) World Bank
12 Country Comparisons on Research, Technology and More
Producing Home Grown Solutions : Think Tanks and Knowledge Networks in International Development
(2011-09) Datta, Ajoy; Young, John
Mainstream international development discourse has long heralded the importance of home grown solutions and national ownership of development policies. Ownership has been seen as the missing link between the significant development aid inflows from the North and poverty reduction outcomes in the South. You only have to look to international agreements such the 2002 Monterrey Consensus or the2005 Paris Declaration for evidence of this.
Co-Creating Development
(2011-09) Ramaswamy, Venkat
We are now in a new age of stakeholder engagement. Thanks to the World Wide Web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, networked individuals around the globe are no longer passive and docile recipients of dispensed instructions and development assistance. They are active participants and collaborators in the value creation process, and cocreators of solutions with a wide range of private-public-social enterprises.
Interview with Steven Livingston on Information Systems and Development
(2011-09) World Bank
An Interview with Steven Livingston, Professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs. His research and teaching focus on media, information technology, national security and global politics. Dr. Livingston’s most recent publications include, When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina (2007), co-authored with W. Lance Bennett and Regina Lawrence) and Africa’s Evolving Infosystems: A Pathway to Security and Stability (2010), assessing the effects of the rapid growth of ICT on governance in Africa.
Enabling Open Government
(2011-09) Dokeniya, Anupama
Globally, increasingly vigilant and vocal civil society groups—important actors in the new multilateralism—are demanding that companies publish what they pay in revenues, aid agencies publish what they fund, and governments publish what they spend. These initiatives reflect a renewed and heightened focus on openness, transparency, and citizen participation in the discourse and practice of governance. This idea of open government stresses information sharing and participation, rather than discretion and secrecy, as foundations of good and effective governance.
Access to Aid Data Transforms Lives
(2011-09) Wardhaugh, Alasdair
Aid transparency has emerged as a top priority for many donors who recognize that increasing access to aid information is central to improving the aid process. It increases accountability, helps countries make best use of scarce aid resources, increases the impact of aid in
reducing poverty, improves lives in developing countries, and maintains domestic support for aid at times of financial stringency.
That’s why the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) was launched in Accra at the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in September 2008 (HLF3). IATI is a multistakeholder voluntary
initiative that seeks to improve the quality and use of international aid money by making aid information easier for people to find, understand, compare, and scrutinize.
Not a Popularity Contest : Bringing Rigor to Open Governments
(2011-09) Fiszbein, Ariel
Participation, dialogue, openness. These are values we cherish and aspire to. Who would be in favor of unilateralism, monologue, or isolation as guiding principles of development? The call for open development as a multipolar and more democratic search for solutions is almost a platitude. The issue is not whether openness, a positive attribute in itself, can promote better policies, but rather what are the conditions required for openness to succeed.
Enhanced Social Accountability Through Open Access to Data : Geomapping World Bank Projects
(2011-09) Gigler, Björn-Sören; Tanner, R. Bedford, III; Kiess, Johannes
The 2004 World Development Report, Making Services Work for Poor People, argues that the welfare of the world’s most vulnerable people depends directly on the availability of public services. Opening access to data is an important step toward improving the performance of public institutions in providing public services, and more broadly, to enhance support for good governance and social accountability.
Experts in an Open Society
(2011-09) Rajani, Rakesh
Experts have been in charge of the formal business of development for 50-odd years. But despite good intentions, they cannot boast an impressive track record, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sure, there has been progress on several fronts. But too many people still live in abject poverty, lack decent basic services, and suffer daily indignities at the hands of the very authorities meant to serve them.
The Power of Public Discourse
(2011-09) Dowsing, Kavita Abraham; Deane, James
The concept of open development presupposes a greatly increased supply of information available to citizens on the issues, products, and services that shape their lives. It means that governments should make information on budgets accessible and intelligible, local authorities should provide access to information about the provision of services that citizens can expect, and donors should be
transparent about what they are spending, specifying for what and why, and doing so in forms that beneficiaries can use.
New Media : Challenging the Establishment
(2011-09) Sigal, Ivan
Individual citizens can effect social change through mediated action. There has been a paradigmatic shift in how social networks coalesce online for collective action. The Internet, and especially the creation of open and accessible social media networks, has facilitated and significantly accelerated the generation and mass awareness of social categories, such as people with grievances about government corruption. It has also provided the means to create and share an abundance of content—images, videos, and stories— that feed the narratives around which networks for action coalesce.