Online game developed by the Institute for the Future and the World Bank Institute to help participants develop skills and solutions to world problems. The 10-week game is free to play and begins March 3. Players will complete 10 missions and 10 quests — one a week .
Demonstration site that explores how mobile phones can be used by neighborhoods and communities (in this case by people with disabilities and their carers) to gather local information, build local knowledge and integrate this with statistical, administrative and planning data within a community data repository.
This special issue of Participatory Learning and Action focuses on recent approaches to climate change adaptation and discusses how community-based approaches to climate change have emerged, and the similarities and differences between CBA and other participatory development and disaster risk reduction approaches.
A review by the World Bank Operations Evaluation Department of the Citizen Report Cards initiative in Bangalore which finds that the report cards have been an important vehicle for civil society’s “voice” in Bangalore.
Interesting site that collects suggestions on improving governance in the U.S. and allows visitors to vote up or down the various suggestions.
Podcast about alternate reality game sponssored by the British Red Cross as part of its Civilians in Conflict campaign.
Code of practical ethics for PGIS practitioners, facilitators, technology intermediaries and researchers. Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Swahili, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Modern, Bangla, Tamil, Hindi, Persian Dari, and Arabic.
