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mySociety seminar: Parliaments, People and Digital Development (House of Lords, London, UK)

On 21st November mySociety will host a seminar at the House of Lords exploring how digital tools are being used in Sub-Saharan Africa to bring parliaments and citizens closer together. During the seminar, they will launch their Parliaments and the People: Digital Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa report, which presents the findings from an extensive and in-depth research study into digital democracy across Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda. This research explores the use of digital channels and platforms in communicating political information in the region, and considers the implications for future development in digital and institution-building.

The report analyses the breadth of digital political engagement in the countries studied, and identifies key structural and cultural considerations that influence whether digital solutions to improving democratic engagement, transparency and accountability in governing institutions will be successful.

The seminar will bring together researchers, policy makers and practitioners to discuss how the insights from this and other work can be integrated into policy, engagement and future development work.

As capacity is limited, attendance to the event is by invitation only. If you’re interested in attending please email  to request an invite.mySociety seminar: Parliaments, People and Digital Development (House of Lords, London, UK)

M4D2018: 6th International Conference on Mobile Communication Technology for Development (Kampala, Uganda))

This conference provides a forum for M4D enthusiasts to network, innovate, and share experiences of working with mobile technologies in development contexts. It welcomes researchers, practitioners and all those with interest in the use, evaluation, and theorizing of mobile communication technologies for development. M4D conferences combine two days of plenary parallel paper sessions, panel sessions, short presentations, posters and workshops. M4D2018 will in addition, include pre-conference workshops for practitioners, PhD and masters students and entrepreneurs, as well as start-ups interested in show casing their work.

 

ALIGN webinar: cross-country perspectives on gender norms

The Advancing Learning and Innovation on Gender Norms (ALIGN) project, led by ODI and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a new initiative connecting those working on social and gender norms across a range of sectors and issues. Its aim is to further knowledge sharing and innovation to ensure evidence and learning on norm change informs more effective policy and practice.

This webinar introduces the ALIGN platform and discusses some of the key debates and concepts shaping cutting-edge development work on addressing harmful gender norms. Drawing from ODI’s research on gender norms alongside the experiences of projects in Uganda and India, the panel discusses: What are the key concepts and evidence for understanding gender norm change? How can programmes better respond to emerging evidence and context-specific dimensions of gender norms? What challenges, opportunities and learnings can be drawn from projects in Uganda and India to inform policy and practice?

Promoting Equal Chances for Women and Men to Use and Benefit from ICT-enabled Solutions (IICD report 2015)

This publication explores issues of gender in ICT4D project and is based on case study research conducted among Connect4Change projects in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. The publication pulls together insights and learning around the effects of ICT uptake and use on women’s empowerment and gender relations in agricultural value chain development, maternal and child health, and hospital management information systems projects, and includes the 3 case studies as separate and stand alone documents for more information.

ICT and Governance in East Africa: A Landscape Analysis in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania 2014 (iHub Research study2015)

iHub Research, as part of the ICT4Democracy East Africa network undertook a study in 2014 to assess how ICT tools are being used, for and in various aspects of governance in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. This study, with an aim to bridge the research and insights gap on ICT use in East Africa, sought to answer the following:

 

  •  Which ICT tools are used in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania addressing these four aspects of governance,
    • Access to information
    • Service delivery
    • Tracking corruption
    • Citizen participation
  • In which ways are ICT tools used in the above four areas?
  • What successes and challenges exist in the use of these tools?

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