Overwhelmed by Interactions
As the famous saying goes, “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” Social network analysis backs up the truism. In March 2010 three researchers found that a CEO’s annual salary increases …

Last week a Chilean commission of environment, health, economy, mining and agriculture ministers voted to approve a massive coal mining project on Riesco Island in the far south of the country. Supporters of the project, …

Though still in its early days, the data journalism movement is taking hold in Mexico with the rise of two distinct but overlapping communities, Hacks/Hackers and OpenData.mx.
The global Hacks/Hackers network began in late 2009 in …

Once a week I receive a mildly depressing email from Mint.com. Last week was fairly typical: I spent $60 on beer and alcohol when I only budgeted for $10, I paid $8 in banking fees …

Editor’s note: This comprehensive profile on the state of e-government in Latin America was originally published on the personal blog of Juan Arellano. It was translated into English by Siân Sinnott and been edited by …

Civil society organizations are becoming increasingly adept at using social media to communicate to a wider public. While they continue to send traditional press releases to newspaper reporters and broadcast media, they are also increasingly …

For the past four months Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente — in collaboration with Información Cívica and Silvana Fumega, a consultant for the World Bank Institute — has been organizing a series of video-conferences with transparency NGOs …

In our last post, “A Critique of Legislative Monitoring Websites,” we looked at the #InternetNecesario campaign in Mexico as a model to increase civic participation in legislative debates. A review of the campaign reveals the …

What legislative monitoring can learn from #InternetNecesario
In October 2009 Alejandro Pisanty of the Internet Society of Mexico caught wind that the Chamber of Deputies (one of Mexico’s two legislative bodies) would soon vote on a …

Along with Silvana Fumega in Argentina and the Smart Citizen Foundation in Chile, Información Cívica is helping coordinate a series of video-conference calls that bring together legislative monitoring groups and civic hackers to discuss the …