This study evaluates the potential of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-based Ground-Penetrating Radar (UAV-GPR) for identifying buried features related to a suspected World War II (WWII) hiding place near Bornerbroekseweg, the Netherlands. The survey area is an active farmland …

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Door de huidige druk op de eerstelijnszorg in Nederland wordt er steeds meer nadruk gelegd op EHealth-toepassingen. De Vilans Hulpmiddelenwijzer dient als een online (EHealth) informatievoorziening bij het kiezen van een hulpmiddel bij een aandoening of beperking. Vilans wil de Hulpmiddelenwijzer verbeteren, …

Collectieve ontplooiingsgerichte voorzieningen zoals een buurthuis, een bibliotheek en laagdrempelige speel en sportvoorzieningen worden steeds meer beschouwd als een belangrijk instrument om de kansengelijkheid en ontplooiing van buurtbewoners te bevorderen. Deze voorzieningen zijn namelijk vaak plekken …

In this opinion piece, we establish some key priorities for evidence-based governance to address the increasing threat of heatwave events in Europe, particularly for human health. According to the European Environment Agency (EEA) [1], Europe is warming faster than the global average. The year 2020 was …

Digital surveillance technologies using artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as computer vision and facial recognition are becoming cheaper and easier to integrate into governance practices worldwide. Morocco serves as an example of how such technologies are becoming key tools of governance in authoritarian …

The Middle East and North Africa region has been absent form stocktaking exercises on social accountability initiatives (SAI), an umbrella term to designate citizen-led tools aimed at socio-political change. We argue that this sidelining is unwarranted, given the proliferation of participatory governance …

This chapter offers a working definition of social accountability as any citizen-led action beyond elections that aims to enhance the accountability of state actors. We view social accountability as a broad array of predominantly bottom-up initiatives, aimed at improving the quality of governance (especially …

In this chapter, we first summarise the findings from the country chapters on the multiple meanings of SA, documenting terms, translations and contrasting understandings between citizens and public officials. Second, we highlight how civil mobilisation tends to be cyclical over time and is often mediated …