Dear Libtech community, I am excited to announce a course on the use of Technology for Accountability to be offered on Stanford Online. Please see the announcement below for more details. The course offers a space for participants to collaborate on tech for accountability projects. I would like to welcome the Libtech community to bring your project ideas on this topic, in case you are looking for people to collaborate with. Projects can be at any stage - from a thought experiment to a finished project looking for adoption.
We hope to have a global audience that would give you the right partners to build your ideas with. Please feel free to write to me if you have any questions about the course or about bring your project ideas. I would appreciate your help in spreading the word about the course. Thank you, Warm regards S. Vivek Course leader, Technology for Accountability Lab Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) together with the National Democratic Institute (NDI) will offer a free open-online course starting Aug 9, 2016 on using technology to promote transparency and accountability. The objective of this course, dubbed ‘Technology for Accountability Lab,’ is to guide democracy activists, software developers, and other stakeholders to conceptualize, plan and implement technological tools and advocacy strategies to improve transparency by opening political and governmental processes. Tech for Accountability Lab will run for 10 weeks and feature short video lectures by scholars at Stanford and NDI who will be joined by experts from the Sunlight Foundation, Creative Commons, Hacker Lab (Parliament of Brazil), My Society, Transparency International, The New York Times and other organizations. In order to be relevant to a broad international audience, the course draws case studies and presentations from Brazil, Czech Republic, India, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, US, UK and other countries. Course topics will expose participants to both theoretical and practical applications of the field, which include: monitoring corruption at the grassroots; tracking legislators and their bills; using technology to monitor election fraud; tracking money in politics; and designing innovative technology tools. NDI and Stanford’s CDDRL – who both have a long tradition of working with democracy activists around the world – developed and designed the course in response to activists’ interest in incorporating technology into their work. The course aims to attract a unique set of global participants with a background in accountability movements who can learn more about the tools that can help them to enrich and magnify their work. No previous experience or exposure to technology is required. *Arabic platform and materials*: Thanks to a grant from the Steven's Initiative (supported by the State Department and the Bezos Family Foundation), the course materials have been translated into Arabic. For the first time on Stanford Online, participants will have the option of doing the course through an Arabic platform with extensive language support to facilitate the participation of youth in the MENA region. To learn more about the course and register, please visit the url below. Please share this announcement widely with interested participants and professional networks. Course link: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/course-v1:Home+TFALab+2016/about ABOUT: Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law <http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/> bridges the worlds of scholarship, policy and practice to understand and advance the conditions for just, democratic, and sustainable development around the world. The National Democratic Institute <https://www.ndi.org/>is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation, openness and accountability in government.
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