Open Data – What Now? 7 Ideas for Your City
Originally posted on Places.:
by Valentin Schipfer Everbody talks about smart cities while nobody really knows what hides behind it. Is it about open data and communication technologies or about…
Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice
The standard approach to policy-making and advice in economics implicitly or explicitly ignores politics and political economy, and maintains that if possible, any market failure should be rapidly removed. This … Continue reading
Guest article: How Social Inequality And Other Inconvenient Truths Could Upset the Innovation Apple Cart (Part 1)
Originally posted on Places.:
Brownfield revitalization and creative industries in Berlin. Photo: Rebecca Hudson by Linda Lees* Instability, creative tension, and entrepreneurial people on society’s margins are some of the…
A Brilliant Story of Participation, Technology and Development Outcomes
Originally posted on DemocracySpot:
A major argument for democratic governance is that more citizen participation leads to better outcomes through an improved alignment between citizens’ preferences and policies. But how…
Statistics on the Informal Economy: Definitions, Regional Estimates & Challenges
Statistics on the Informal Economy: Definitions, Regional Estimates & Challenges presents new regional estimates on informal employment based on direct measures from 40 countries and indirect measures from another 80 … Continue reading
The problem with ‘Start-up’ Urbanism
Originally posted on citiesaregoodforyou:
In 1958, three years before her masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs wrote an article called “Downtown Is for People.” In…
Economists: An Anthropological View
Originally posted on Fixing the Economists:
‘Life Among The Econ‘ is a satirical paper written by the economist Axel Leijonhufvud and published in 1973. In the paper Leijonhufvud refers directly…
Technology and Citizen Engagement: Friend or Foe?
Originally posted on DemocracySpot:
Rio Grande do Sul Participatory Budgeting Voting System (2014) Within the open government debate, there is growing interest in the role of technology in citizen engagement.…
Reading Development 