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  • Open Contracting Translated to Spanish

    The Open Contracting Guide which we facilitated for the World Bank in early 2013 has been translated into Spanish and is now available online. You can see it here: http://t.co/mcy88WgmjF – or browse the embedded book below:  

  • IDEA Booksprint Completed!

    Yesterday was the final day of the Book Sprint on the “Open Source Technology in Election Administration” publication, organized by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) and facilitated by Faith Bosworth. As the now familiar morning mists ... read more

  • CMV GuideBook Sprint in Ethiopia

    How can a regional agreement on an issue as complex as mining be brought down to the diverse contexts of those nations that adopted it? After an initial day of presentations on the first experiences of translating the African Mining ... read more

  • Open Source in Election Administration

    Today was the first day of the booksprint for the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Administration’s (IDEA) publication on the use and potential of open source technology in election administration. Targeted at electoral administrators, civil society actors and vendors, the ... read more

  • 2 Book Sprints this week!

    We are facilitating two Book Sprints this week. One is in Sweden for IDEA (The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance) about the use of Open Source in elections. This will be facilitated by the talented Faith Bosworth who ... read more

  • One Hope Book Sprint Completed!

    A rather belated announcement but we finished the One Hope Book Sprint on Friday 6pm, perhaps 1 hour earlier than expected! It was a great Book Sprint and Ausburg Fortress and Liturgical Press will work out a publishing date and ... read more

  • One Hope Book Sprint underway!

    We are currently working on a Book Sprint with Augsburg Fortress and Liturgical Press. The two publishers brought 6 keen Book Sprinters to Minneapolis to create a book about the differences and similarities between Catholic and Lutheran traditions. We are ... read more

  • What is Queer Today Book Sprint done!

    We are in the final hours of a three-day Book Sprint with the Berlin based (heidy) collective. Named after the secret Skype emoticon for squirrel (when Skype still had secret emoticons), (heidy) even has a manifesto outlining their stance against ... read more

  • Recent Books

    Recent books produced by Book Sprints British Columbia in a Global Context   The main scope of the book is to apply the fundamental geographical approach of understanding our globally changing world by looking at the local processes. These local ... read more