Over the next months, we will be working together with regional partner organisations in Latin America and the Caribbean, such as Ciudadano Inteligente,Ojo Público,TEDIC and FLIP, to develop cross-border approaches to transparency and accountability challenges in the region, bringing people working together in an event in Rio in November 2017. Applications are now closed. Despite […]
In July 2017, I realised that many of the issues we were discussing at the African Open Data Conference (AODC) were similar to the ones I’d seen in Ghana. These links got me thinking about the importance of sequencing in designing open government initiatives.
If you find yourself in the throes of a redesign, at some point you will need to transform user research into platform mockups. We hope that our approach can help you to zero-in on the goals of the redesign, and make more pragmatic decisions as you move forward.
This post is by Tanya O’Carroll, Adviser Tech and Human Rights, Amnesty International; Danna Ingleton, Adviser, Human Rights Defenders; and Jun Matsushita, Founder and CEO, iilab. Making the decision to cease support for the Panic Button app was not an easy one, but it was also not an empty one. We believe that diving into […]
This post is by Tanya O’Carroll, Adviser Tech and Human Rights, Amnesty International; Danna Ingleton, Adviser, Human Rights Defenders; and Jun Matsushita, Founder and CEO, iilab. In 2012, Amnesty International, with support from our partners at iilab, The Engine Room and Frontline Defenders, began developing a tool that would provide human rights defenders with an […]