by Guest blogger, Mariana Leyton Photo courtesy of Flickr by Jason Howle In follow up to our first posting of Apps for Development here are five additional apps that can improve our interactions with governments. These apps are tools for civil society and governments to share knowledge in an efficient and transparent way and encourage participation in our … [Read more...] about 5 More Apps for Development
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5 Apps For Development
by Guest blogger, Mariana Leyton What are the tools we talk about when we talk about civic technology? In this post and the next, we share ten applications that can be considered quintessential civic tech apps to give an idea of what can be achieved using ICTs as tools to achieve openness, transparency, efficiency and participation in our democracies. … [Read more...] about 5 Apps For Development
A Colorful Day in Laventille
Photo credit by Kerneisha Beckles I guess we all harbored mixed emotions - excitement, anxiety, lingering doubts - as the army convoy in which we were travelling slowly meandered its way up the Laventille Hills on the morning of November 15 2014. The mission of the Family Association that day was the painting of the St Barbs Primary School, located in the low-income, … [Read more...] about A Colorful Day in Laventille
Journalism and the Prevention of Violence
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Author, Mikael Ejdemyr Almost 10 years ago, I was one of the first journalists to reach the island of Grenada after it was hit by Hurricane Ivan. My trip lasted one day, including six hours traversing the island. The Caribbean paradise looked like a battle ground. I hurried to write a story in 45 minutes, then ran back to the … [Read more...] about Journalism and the Prevention of Violence
Caribbean Economic Outlook 2015: Seeing Stars
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Egres73 What will 2015 bring to the Caribbean? A famous economist once said that ‘the only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable’. While I tend to agree that my discipline does not have too much luck lately with forecasting (the recent world economic recession is a good example of a crisis that was … [Read more...] about Caribbean Economic Outlook 2015: Seeing Stars