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David Sasaki
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Posted: January 16th, 2012, 2:00am CST
- Argentina: Opening Up the Governance of the Judiciary
"It’s true that accessing judges’ affidavits continues to be a complex process, and that the resistance found in some members of the Judiciary is in contrast to the initiatives begun by the Supreme Court. But the Open Government Initiative and its main precedent, the Center for Judicial Information (http://www.cij.gov.ar/inicio.html ) are policies that we should celebrate, and make us think that thorough regulations and a comprehensive right-to-know law in our country are not very far away. In contrast to a decade ago, today’s Argentina also boasts similar initiatives"
- Imagery Update: Week of January 9th
New Google sattelite imagery of Syria's Citadel of Aleppo.
- The Drive for Dignity - By Francis Fukuyama | Foreign Policy
"Whatever one might ultimately think of the sexual-assault charges brought against Dominique Strauss-Kahn by Nafissatou Diallo, the New York City police were not free to ignore them just because he was a high-status IMF director and French presidential candidate, and she a humble hotel maid from Guinea."
- Where people are looking for homes
"Trulia's most recent visualization shows this growth (bottom bar graph) and where people are searching for homes (map)"
- Programme: Water for Everybody in Andaraí, but is it really for everybody?
"During the project’s one year and three month existence, what remains of the State’s Water for Everybody program is an obsolete water supply system, three workers, a second pump promised over a year ago, and the signs advertising the project."
- Flying Down to Rio: Brain Gain
Profiles of Brazilian diaspora returning to work on transparency and sustainability.