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Can mobile phone apps prevent violence against women?

In this guest post, Keshet Bachan, gender equality activist and blogger at Girls Report, questions whether mobile phone applications addressing street violence are an effective way to prevent violence against women. What do you think? 

Mobile tech and child protection in West Africa

Last October, UNICEF West Africa wrote up a nice briefing note on mobile tech and its relevance in child protection programming. You can download it here.

New technology and good governance

Civil society has been working for years on participation, transparency, accountability and governance issues. Plenty of newer initiatives (small and large) look at new technologies as a core tool in this work. But are these groups talking and learning from each other? What good practices exist for using new technologies to improve transparency, accountability and governance?

Everyone learns: an information and training session in Benin

This is a first guest post by Jacqueline Deelstra, who is working for about 2 months to support Plan Benin to solidify their SMS Reporting and Tracking of Violence against Children (VAC) project.

Working with Ushahidi in Benin

This is a third guest post by Paul Goodman who is supporting Plan Benin to solidify their SMS Reporting and Tracking of Violence against Children (VAC) project. More on the overall project and process via the links at the end of this post.

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