Maria del Camino Hurtado September 2, 2016 This post was originally published on USAID Learning Lab and is reposted here with permission of the author. Summer is over. You wrapped up some projects, others are about to pick up, deliverables continue to find their way into your inbox and deadlines relentlessly come at you as…
Like spaceflight, truly putting citizens at the heart of development – whether in the US or internationally – can seem impossibly complex. It is one thing to set out to close feedback loops, to want to genuinely adapt based on what citizens tells us they want and need.
By Renee HoJanuary 29, 2016 Patient records. Long considered property of the doctor’s secret trove where facts about you went and never came back, they are now yours—more easily than ever before. In fact, as a patient in the United States, you’ve had a right to your medical records for some time, but it hasn’t…
A Response to “What is my role in the story of poverty’s end?”
A mid-term update from our Collaboration Fund Winners
Open licensing privatizes technology and data usability. How does that affect equality and accessibility?
Donald Trump led the polls but lost the caucus. Can we trust the polls to measure public opinion?
A mid-term update from our Collaboration Fund Winners
Why does feedback mean different things for different people?
By Renee HoNovember 26, 2015 A few weeks ago we asked, “Do we bias the feedback we get?” The emphasis was on ensuring that respondents give answers that are unbiased and therefore “true”. It turns out that responses vary depending on how you frame the decision and the context in which the decision is made.…