Tag Archive for: transformation

Open Data in Developing Economies: Toward Building an Evidence Base on What Works and How

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"Open Data for Developing Economies" features in-depth case studies on how open data is having an impact across the developing world-from an agriculture initiative in Colombia to data-driven healthcare projects in Uganda and South Africa to crisis response in Nepal. The analysis built on these case studies aims to create actionable intelligence regarding: (a) the conditions under which open data is most (and least) effective in development, presented in the form of a Periodic Table of Open Data; (b) strategies to maximize the positive contributions of open data to development; and (c) the means for limiting open data’s harms on developing countries.

Vision or Vacuum? 2010 Transformation Audit

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Although the global recession has come and gone, the world economy still finds itself in crisis at the end of 2010. As the United States returns to growth in the wake of a sub-prime crisis that contaminated the rest of the global economy, trouble in the Eurozone is likely to prolong the sluggish global recovery.

Conflict and Governance: 2005 Transformation Audit

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"Economic Transformation Audit 2005 – Conflict and Governance" interrogates the manner in which South Africa’s economy is transforming the country’s political and social landscape. It scrutinises the data for directions of development and pointers for future policy.

Money and Morality: 2006 Transformation Audit

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South Africans are struggling to characterise the times we are living through. Is this a time of deepening grievance, of political patronage and plunder – or a season of hope and previously unimaginable opportunity for most?

Leadership and Legitimacy: 2007 Transformation Audit

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In 2007 "Transformation Audit – Leadership and Legitimacy", we see a paradox: normally in democracies, economic and employment growth see higher ratings for government.

Risk and Opportunity 2008: Transformation Audit

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On the eve of its fourth general elections, South Africa finds itself in the midst of a rearrangement of its political landscape after a decade and a half of governance by a unified African National Congress.

Recession and Recovery: 2009 Transformation Audit

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"Recession and Recovery" offers an assessment of the concrete impact that negative growth had in 2009 on the longerterm prospects for the creation of an equitable and just economic dispensation in South Africa.