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'''Newsletter No 2 - 7 Decenber 2015''' | |||
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Dear Author, | |||
I am delighted to give an update on the progress of the Global Informality project. | |||
'''Number of entries''' | |||
The editorial team has been most efficient this autumn and we are happy to report just under 80 completed entries before Christmas. Although the difference from the October newsletter is only 10, there are many more that are in the process of being drafted, edited or awaiting return from the authors. We cannot emphasise enough just how grateful we are to the authors who turn around entries promptly. We are still aiming at assembling 100 entries by the end of 2015, which should be easily achieved if all the contributors with December deadline send in their entries. | |||
'''Publications and publishers''' | |||
We are still waiting for Cambridge University Press to inform us about their decision on the book proposal that I have submitted as part of the list of publications from the FP7 ANTICORRP project. You may remember that we were expecting an answer from the Press by September, but unfortunately we have not received it yet. We anticipate being able to submit a near final selection of entries related to corruption to CUP in February. In the meantime, as I reported earlier, we have approached UCL University Press and received extremely encouraging feedback and a positive decision. We will be working on a volume for the UCL Press as well. The UCL Press is a new publisher and will be leading on 'open access' publications. The latter makes it really attractive to the Global Informality Project as we aim to reach out to the general public. | |||
'''Website''' | |||
The online version of the encyclopaedia on the basis of WIKI software has been developed as | |||
well. Thanks to Sharon and Max, we have experimental pages with images and entries that | |||
are tagged, categorised and are searchable. Now that Sharon and Max have completed their | |||
degrees and moved on, we need more funding and help to continue this work. We are | |||
thinking of possibilities of crowdsourcing for new ideas of practices and of finding ways of | |||
assessing them: visibility, familiarity, frequency, ambivalence, and impact. We are likely to | |||
take up on this dimension of the project once we have completed submissions to the | |||
publishers. Due to the lack of qualified staff, we have not yet enabled access for authors to | |||
the construction site, but we are working on grant applications that would allow us to do so. | |||
Please be patient with us, as our editorial team works very hard on a very modest budget. | |||
World Map of Informality: | |||
The map continues to develop thanks to the help of Philipp Koeker, who keeps adding dots to | |||
mark submitted entries. This function works on the basis of the Google Maps software. An | |||
interesting fact that Philipp has shared with me recently is that Russia only has two dots, | |||
despite us having a lot of entries on Russian practices. It turns out that all Soviet entries are | |||
listed if you click on Moscow, whereas Russian entries are listed if you click on the dot in | |||
Eastern Siberia.... I wonder how it works for India and China, and whether we can actually | |||
make the map crowdsourced as well. The map has been an important visualisation tool and | |||
my students on the Informal Practices MA course are likely to further contribute to the map. | |||
'''FRINGE''' | |||
As part of the [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/fringe-centre FRINGE Centre], the Global Informality Project has been housed at the new | |||
UCL Institute of Advanced Studies. It was launched among other FRINGE projects at the | |||
IAS on 3 December 2015, together with Eric Gordy's project on Closing the Gap between | |||
Formal and Informal Institutions in West Balkans (Horizon 2020). Very soon we will be | |||
posting blog reports about the launch and constituent projects. We are keen to establish an | |||
international network of Friends of Fringe, if you would like to receive our news please send | |||
your email address to the Centre Coordinator Akosua Bonsu at a.bonsu@ucl.ac.uk. | |||
Read more at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ah-shs-office/digital-communications/joint-faculty-internal-communications/staff-profiles/alena-ledeneva | |||
'''People''' | |||
We would like to thank Maximilian Lambertson and Sharon Lin for their excellent work. | |||
They are now in their respective employments. We would like to welcome Sheelagh Barron | |||
to the team and thank the Project Manager Dr Anna Bailey, Costanza Curro, and Elizabeth | |||
Teague for their dedicated effort. Dr Roxana Bratu, the FP7 ANTICORRP Research Fellow, | |||
will be working with the editorial team on the links of the Global Informality Project with the | |||
WP6 Media and Corruption. Dr Philipp Koeker, the FP7 ANTICORRP Research Fellow will | |||
be helping with website updates. | |||
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Kind regards,<br> | Kind regards,<br> | ||
Alena Ledeneva<br>Professor of Politics and Society<br>University College London | Alena Ledeneva<br>Professor of Politics and Society<br>University College London | ||
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