Open budgets

Want to open the budget now? Ask me how! Budget data literacy in Israel - a case study

Mary Loitsker, Public Knowledge Workshop
PUBLISHED ON: 27 May 2020

This commentary is part of Digital inclusion and data literacy , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Elinor Carmi and Simeon J. Yates. A particularly useful type of data literacy, instrumental for civic participation, for the ability to hold governments accountable, and to monitor policy implementation, as well as the

Digital inclusion

Apps, appointments, panic and people

Alice Mathers, Good Things Foundation
PUBLISHED ON: 27 May 2020

This commentary is part of Digital inclusion and data literacy , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Elinor Carmi and Simeon J. Yates. Note from the author When I sat down to write the following commentary in February 2020 COVID-19 had not yet taken hold across UK, as it had done in China and other areas of East Asia. However

Data protection

A new milestone for data protection in Brazil

Laura Schertel Mendes, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Clara Iglesias Keller, Leibniz-Institute for Media Research/Hans-Bredow-Institut
PUBLISHED ON: 13 May 2020

As the Covid-19 pandemic expanded across the world, so did the debates on whether fighting this sanitary emergency would require the use of personal data, and on how that would impact pre-established data protection frameworks. In Brazil , these concerns first came to light with the announcement of agreements between government and telco companies

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