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Duncan Edwards

@duncan_edw

Governance, Open Government, Accountability, Participation, Innovation, Learning, Tech, M&E. @ACE_soas Formerly @IDS_UK @AllVoicesCount @PWYPtweets

 Brighton, UK
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Danger if we don't attach more meaning to #opengov, we may simply be putting an open face on the status quo bulletin.ids.ac.uk/idsbo/iss… #IODC16
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Congratulations Liz!
Prof Liz David-Barrett (@LizDavidBarrett) profile pictureProf Liz David-Barrett@LizDavidBarrett29 Jan 2025
Exciting news! thebookseller.com/news/profe…
Professor Liz David-Barrett wins The Ideas Prize for non-fiction

Professor Liz David-Barrett wins The Ideas Prize for non-fiction

The Ideas Prize for non-fiction has been awarded to Professor Liz David-Barrett for her proposal Power Grab: Opportunists, Populists and the Changing World Order.

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@pamela_ogbozor is now discussing how the PCI (power/capability/interest) approach by @mushtaqkhan100 and @RoyPallavi2 can work to design a proof of concept intervention for absenteeism @ACE_soas @HPRG_Nigeria @eleanor_hutch @H_S_Global #AccountabilityinAction project
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📣IDS event Join us for the launch of a major new IDS report, Building Solidarities: #GenderJustice in a Time of Backlash. Thur 21 Nov at 16:00. Featuring panellists from @AWID @UN_Women @BIGD_bracu @sxpolitics and more. Book your place at: 👉ac.pulse.ly/o7zz4oioch
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CarolineKhene@CarolineKhene5 Nov 2024
Join our team as a Research Fellow in the Digital & Technology Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies! We aim to expand our research on digital rights/governance, AI, and cybersecurity within global development. jobs.ids.ac.uk/27-2024
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Come join me as a Research Fellow at @IDS_UK working with the brilliant @CarolineKhene & @Becky_Faith in the our digital development research team. jobs.ids.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?…
Jobs at IDS

Jobs at IDS

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SOAS ACE@ACE_soas1 Oct 2024
👉 The event on #StateCapture and #development @Sussex_SCSC has been moved to today! Join the conversation with @LizDavidBarrett @kaufpost - it's going to be good!🙂
Centre for the Study of Corruption (@Sussex_SCSC) profile pictureCentre for the Study of Corruption@Sussex_SCSC30 Sep 2024
🚨Event Update: ACE #SeminarSeries: #StateCapture & #Development🚨 Due to unforeseen circumstances, the #seminar has been rescheduled. The time and registration details remain unchanged. 🗓️1st October 2024 🕒1 PM - 2 PM BST 🔗bit.ly/aceseminar1 #GIACE #anticorruption
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Real-time reliability: managing uncertainties in critical infrastructures. The new blog from IDS Fellow @IanScoones read more below: wordpress.pulse.ly/udgcar8fo…
Real-time reliability: managing uncertainties in critical infrastructures

Real-time reliability: managing uncertainties in critical infrastructures

‘Critical infrastructures’ are those that deliver important goods and services to society in the face of high levels of variability. They may be electricity supply systems or food producing systems…

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Jeni Tennison@JeniT13 Aug 2024
So much techno-utopianism about AI, particularly from @InstituteGC, in recent months. Even the tiniest amount of experience of delivering digital/data/AI systems in the public sector would reveal it's a bit more complicated than that. 🧵 Ten challenges that need to be tackled
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Ian Scoones@IanScoones12 Aug 2024
Whether it's climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technology, we don't know what the future holds. But how can we navigate uncertainty? Check out the book now! @politybooks @IDS_UK
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Sarah Lister@sa_lister18 Jun 2024
Looking forward to contributing with some thoughts on what (in addition to transparent, inclusive and credible elections) is needed for #democraticgovernance @UNDPgov
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@UDBidenSchool17 Jun 2024
Anti-democratic movements are surging around the world, threatening to undermine elections and replace them with oligarchy. While pro-democracy movements focus on defending elections, most people think that elections alone are inadequate.
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Artificial intelligence will turbocharge the spread of disinformation – and development organisations need to respond. @benequista @lhpiron and Cristina Ordóñez on today's @fp2p frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/dis…
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#ICYMI: Important Event Tomorrow! Don't miss a discussion on the role of i#InformationEcosystems for development and g#GoodGovernance, tomorrow, June 11, co-hosted by @TAICollab , @CIMA_Media, and @OECD . 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi… #Event2024 #DevelopmentFunding #Philanthropy
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I am really excited and humbled to be giving my inaugural lecture (3 years late due to COVID) on 8 May, reflecting on my experiences of research and seeking to make a difference. In person &link lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/event… @HSR_LSHTM @H_S_Global @MartenRobert @AgwuP @eleanor_hutch
Inaugural Lecture of Professor Dina Balabanova | LSHTM

Inaugural Lecture of Professor Dina Balabanova | LSHTM

Politicians have put health systems firmly on the global agenda, committing to achieve universal health coverage. But how well do they, and those who comment on their decisions, really understand

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If you missed the Africa launch of our book today at #DRIF24 you are invited to join us at @IDS_UK in Brighton or online on the 30th to hear from chapter authors @tedoex, @EdmilsonNFA and @ghkare. #DigitalRights
Institute of Development Studies (@IDS_UK) profile pictureInstitute of Development Studies@IDS_UK21 Apr 2024
📣 Join our event: #Digital disinformation in Africa: Hashtag activism and state propaganda. Tuesday 30 April from 16:00. In-person and online. Register at: 👉 ac.pulse.ly/t1wvrzunqd With: @phat_controller George Karekwaivanane @EdmilsonNFA and Rutendo Chabikwa
This image contains a photo of a man carrying a banner which says: 'This is a New Nigeria. #ENDSARS #ENDSWAT

ALT This image contains a photo of a man carrying a banner which says: 'This is a New Nigeria. #ENDSARS #ENDSWAT

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If you are at #DRIF in Accra join us tomorrow at 14:00 for the official launch of "Digital Disinformation in Africa: hashtag politics, power and propaganda" or download a free copy here 👇👇 bloomsburycollections.com/mo…
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I brought one or two copies of the new @ADRNorg book to Accra for Tuesday's official launch at #DRIF24. And @gbengasesan and I will be making an exciting announcement about a future #DigitalRights project we are hatching ...
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next Thurs. April 23 - don't miss this online & in-person seminar reflecting on how we know when accountability work is changing governance - with @jonathanfox707, @Halloran_B, Ima Akpan & Salbiyah Chair: Rosie McGee 23 April 2024, 13:00-14.30. Register👉zoom.pulse.ly/omzcw4wwba
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In an era of # campaigns and billions💲spent to disrupt dialogue online, Join this event on the findings from the new book Digital Disinformation in Africa. 📅 30 April ⏰ 16:00 Speakers include @phat_controller @tedoex @EdmilsonNFA @ghkare Register👇 ac.pulse.ly/b4uwrecruu
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#BreakingNews: @IDS_UK & @SussexUni have retained their 1st in the world ranking for #DevelopmentStudies again ids.ac.uk/news/sussex-retain… Photo shows 2 of my amazing students! "What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves” P Freire
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ALT Photo showing the IDS building which is made of brick. Two students are sat relaxing with coffee in the foreground. There is a label that reads 'QS World Rankings 2024 Number 1 Development Studies'.

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Nathan Oxley@nathan_oxley10 Apr 2024
We're recruiting a post-doctoral researcher for a new project about Southern African rangelands. jobs.ids.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?… The job's based at @IDS_UK & involves critically examining 'nature based solutions', resilience and equity in pastoral systems in Southern Africa
Jobs at IDS

Jobs at IDS

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