Gender pay gap: how new EU pay transparency laws will make men and women’s wages more equal: Pay transparency. stockphoto-graf/Shutterstock Even though 90% of Europeans think it’s unacceptable for women to be paid less than men, the average EU gender pay gap remained close to 13% in 2021. And there has been only a 4 …
How BRICS’ New Development Bank can improve transparency and accountability: The New Development Bank has not been forthcoming with information on its funding of South Africa's Medupi power station. Getty Images The New Development Bank, which was formed in July 2014, marks its eighth birthday this year. It was formed by the leaders of Brazil, …
Balancing transparency as an open source community manager: Balancing transparency as an open source community manager Rich Bowen Fri, 03/25/2022 – 03:00 Up Register or Login to like. Several weeks ago, my friend and colleague Kashyap Chamarthy posted an essay titled “What makes an effective open-source ‘community gardener?'” By community gardener, he means what most of …
5 levels of transparency for open source communities: Managers of open source communities have to be aware of the 5 levels of transparency that they can provide. These 5 levels of transparency are important for building a thriving open source community. This article describes each level, its goals, and why they are important. But first, …
How radical transparency is transforming open source healthcare software: At Tidepool, where I work as a Community and Clinic Success Manager, the company’s mission is to make diabetes software more accessible, meaningful, and actionable. Operating in the open is how we achieve that. Tidepool’s diabetes management software is an open source platform free for both …
Lack of data on citizenship-stripping goes against the Home Office’s duty of transparency: A group of lawyers found that at least 464 people have had their citizenship removed by the government over the last 15 years. They pieced together the data using freedom of information requests and other publications – a challenge, because the Home …
Why transparency is critical to your open source project's security: The Biden Administration’s recent executive order on cybersecurity aims to improve security assurance and the use of best practices. Transparency and project health are two factors that help to support security across the entire software industry—especially now. read more: Opensource.com anajs Supporting Open Source. Have …
South Africa in the news: Corruption Watch: Health department procurement processes don’t contain the data required for accountability and transparency: On Tuesday 30 March, Corruption Watch and Open Cities Labs (OCL) revealed their research findings on the transparency of South Africa’s health procurement data. Open Cities Labs “is a non-profit open …: “South Africa” – …
GCSE and A-level teacher assessments: benefits of replacing exams undermined by lack of transparency: NuPenDekDee/Shutterstock In January, UK education secretary Gavin Williamson announced that GCSE and A-level exams in England would not go ahead. Now, Williamson has outlined further information about how assessments for pupils will take place. Teachers’ judgements will be at the heart …
South Africa in the news: Vaccine rollout politics: Transparency is the key: It is now obvious that the central issue of the year is going to be the rollout of vaccines for Covid-19 to as many South Africans as possible. The single biggest threat to this will be the politics …: “South Africa” – BingNews …
Create transparency in your game graphics with GIMP: Whether you’re programming a game or an app with Python or Lua, you’re probably using PNG graphics for your game assets. An advantage of the PNG format, which is not available in a JPEG, is the ability to store an alpha channel. Alpha is, essentially, the “color” …
South Africa in the news: Government promises transparency over the expenditure of IMF loan: President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration has promised transparency and accountability over the expenditure of the $ 4.3 billion (R70bn) loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF became …: “South Africa” – BingNews AfDB approves US million to boost African Union’s …
Transparency issues around Alphabet’s ‘Other Bets’ still cloud results: Google reported its first-ever quarterly earnings this week under the new structure of Alphabet. The earnings surpassed analyst expectations and Alphabet is now worth more than Apple with a market value of around US$ 555 billion, compared to Apple’s US $ 535 billion. The majority of …