http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/09/15/ory-okolloh-on-mzalendo/ EthanZ's musings on Africa, media and international development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/09/15/ory-okolloh-on-mzalendo/comment-page-1/#comment-186898 Amare Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:28:47 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=983#comment-186898 I plan to mirror this idea to use for Ethiopia. any help? I plan to mirror this idea to use for Ethiopia. any help?

]]> http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/09/15/ory-okolloh-on-mzalendo/comment-page-1/#comment-121480 …My heart’s in Accra » Looking beyond the US for activist inspiration Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:26:04 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=983#comment-121480 [...] - Ory Okolloh’s Mzalendo project. Ory mentioned in a comment on one of my posts that she’s interested in the tools outlined here, but that the lack of data in Kenya means that her project to increase transparency around the Kenyan government is dealing with different challenges. I mentioned that Ory’s techniques for getting data about Kenya’s parliament - being given documents from geeks who built the parliamentary website, or from parlimanetary insiders, encouraging bloggers to visit parliament and blog their experiences - should inspire democracy activists in the US. [...] [...] – Ory Okolloh’s Mzalendo project. Ory mentioned in a comment on one of my posts that she’s interested in the tools outlined here, but that the lack of data in Kenya means that her project to increase transparency around the Kenyan government is dealing with different challenges. I mentioned that Ory’s techniques for getting data about Kenya’s parliament – being given documents from geeks who built the parliamentary website, or from parlimanetary insiders, encouraging bloggers to visit parliament and blog their experiences – should inspire democracy activists in the US. [...]

]]> http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/09/15/ory-okolloh-on-mzalendo/comment-page-1/#comment-70531 …My heart’s in Accra » Celebrating the small steps Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:26:58 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=983#comment-70531 [...] Ory Okolloh gave a remarkable speech a month ago at the Digital Citizen Indaba at Grahamstown, South Africa, explaining the reasons she and a collaborator formed Mzalendo, a website dedicated to encouraging transparency of the Kenyan Parliament. [...] [...] Ory Okolloh gave a remarkable speech a month ago at the Digital Citizen Indaba at Grahamstown, South Africa, explaining the reasons she and a collaborator formed Mzalendo, a website dedicated to encouraging transparency of the Kenyan Parliament. [...]

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