
Duncan Edwards
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Governance, Open Government, Accountability, Participation, Innovation, Learning, Tech, M&E. @ACE_soas Formerly @IDS_UK @AllVoicesCount @PWYPtweets
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We're recruiting a post-doctoral researcher for a new project about Southern African rangelands. jobs.ids.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… The job's based at Institute of Development Studies & involves critically examining 'nature based solutions', resilience and equity in pastoral systems in Southern Africa

#BreakingNews: Institute of Development Studies & University of Sussex have retained their 1st in the world ranking for #DevelopmentStudies again ids.ac.uk/news/sussex-re… 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


next Thurs. April 23 - don't miss this online & in-person seminar reflecting on how we know when accountability work is changing governance - with Jonathan Fox, Brendan Halloran, Ima Akpan & Salbiyah Chair: Rosie McGee 23 April 2024, 13:00-14.30. Register👉zoom.pulse.ly/omzcw4wwba


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 Migrating to @phatcontroller.bsky.social Jekanyika| @[email protected] Edmilson Angelo GeorgeKarekwaivanane Register👇 ac.pulse.ly/b4uwrecruu



If you missed the Africa launch of our book today at #DRIF24 you are invited to join us at Institute of Development Studies in Brighton or online on the 30th to hear from chapter authors Jekanyika| @[email protected], Edmilson Angelo and GeorgeKarekwaivanane. #DigitalRights

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/eve… Health Systems LSHTM Health Systems Global Robert Marten Prince Agwu Eleanor Hutchinson

Artificial intelligence will turbocharge the spread of disinformation – and development organisations need to respond. Nicholas Benequista Laure-Hélène Piron and Cristina Ordóñez on today's duncangreenlse.bsky.social frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/disinformation…

#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 Trust, Accountability & Inclusion Collaborative , CIMA, and OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives . 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #Event2024 #DevelopmentFunding #Philanthropy


Looking forward to contributing with some thoughts on what (in addition to transparent, inclusive and credible elections) is needed for #democraticgovernance UNDP Governance


So much techno-utopianism about AI, particularly from Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, 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. đź§µ Ten challenges that need to be tackled

Real-time reliability: managing uncertainties in critical infrastructures. The new blog from IDS Fellow Ian Scoones read more below: wordpress.pulse.ly/udgcar8foi

👉 The event on #StateCapture and #development Centre for the Study of Corruption has been moved to today! Join the conversation with Prof Liz David-Barrett Daniel Kaufmann - it's going to be good!🙂


Come join me as a Research Fellow at Institute of Development Studies working with the brilliant CarolineKhene & @Becky_Faith in the our digital development research team. jobs.ids.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Pamela Adaobi Ogbozor is now discussing how the PCI (power/capability/interest) approach by Mushtaq Khan and Pallavi Roy can work to design a proof of concept intervention for absenteeism SOAS ACE HPRG Eleanor Hutchinson Health Systems Global #AccountabilityinAction project

