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Iliman Ndiaye affirme que le Sénégal est champion d'Afrique aux yeux de « beaucoup de monde » malgré une querelle juridique sur la destination ultime du titre de la CAN 2025.

Le calendrier de vaccination obligatoire en Algérie évolue avec l’entrée en vigueur d’un nouveau cadre réglementaire publié dans le dernier numéro du Journal officiel (n°36, […]

L’article Révision du calendrier vaccinal au Journal officiel : ces vaccins deviennent obligatoires en Algérie est apparu en premier sur .

International donors commit substantial resources to GovTech projects (the application of information and communication technologies to government functions). World Bank GovTech investments alone have exceeded $118 billion over the last three decades. Donor strategy documents consistently frame digital transformation not only as a vehicle for improved effectiveness but also for strengthening democracy.
Autocrats are equally invested in these tools. Globally, at least 88 authoritarian regimes currently operate GovTech projects, and electoral autocracies receive the largest share of GovTech aid (48.6 per cent of commitments). Beyond well-known surveillance applications, autocracies deploy GovTech for service delivery, grievance redress and even citizen engagement. These platforms are deployed to project an image of responsiveness and legitimacy. Our experimental evidence from Turkey shows how efficiency-enhancing GovTech tools, when paired with sophisticated regime communication, can durably entrench autocratic rule. We designed a survey experiment focused on CIMER, Turkey’s widely used citizen petition platform, to examine how citizens respond to the government propaganda surrounding it. The results show that the government’s framing of CIMER as an effective tool that “gets things done” significantly increased trust in authoritarian institutions, even among regime opponents. The effect extended beyond attitudes to behaviour: Asked to allocate a hypothetical donation of money among state institutions, independent non-governmental organisations (NGOs) or themselves, anti-government respondents exposed to messages on the platform were significantly more likely to give the money to state institutions. Our recommendations are as follows:
• Donors must take the second-order effects of GovTech initiatives seriously and develop mechanisms to carefully evaluate the risks of unintended consequences. In many cases, support for GovTech projects is overly optimistic regarding their effects on political openness. Adopting a more context-sensitive and realistic approach demands detailed political economy assessments before supporting GovTech projects and developing monitoring metrics that capture potential regime-legitimation effects.
• Donors need to build stronger safety guardrails into these projects. Depending on the political economy assessments, such measures could include the institutional involvement of international organisations or, if feasible, local NGOs (as conditionality) in platform oversight, mandatory independent audits and open data standards by design, among others.
• Finally, donors need to consider actively participating in public communication on these platforms, with visible donor branding, to counter government-controlled propaganda, claim credit for service delivery and strengthen trust in donor countries and organisations.

Depuis la création de la Coupe du monde en 1930, seules huit nations ont réussi à inscrire leur nom au palmarès de la compétition la plus prestigieuse du football. Du premier sacre de l’Uruguay à Montevideo jusqu’au triomphe récent de l’Argentine au Qatar, l’histoire du Mondial est dominée par un cercle très fermé de pays champions du monde.

Une délégation de chercheurs et experts venus de plusieurs centres de réflexion américains a été reçue à Alger dans un contexte marqué par la mise […]

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Dans le cadre de l’amélioration continue de ses services numériques, Algérie Poste a annoncé ce jeudi l’adoption d’une nouvelle mise à jour de l’interface de […]

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À quelques jours de la Tabaski, une atmosphère morose règne à Bamako. Les moutons se font rares et leurs prix, comme ceux des denrées alimentaires, sont en forte hausse. Selon plusieurs témoignages, les difficultés d’approvisionnement et l’insécurité liée aux récentes attaques expliquent cette situation.

Le parquet près le tribunal de Sfisef, dans la wilaya de Sidi Bel Abbes, a annoncé ce jeudi la condamnation de quatre personnes à cinq […]

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Incursions by large drones are causing concern in the three Baltic states: on Tuesday, for the first time, Nato fighter jets shot down a drone over a lake in Estonia. On Wednesday, there was an official air raid alert in Lithuania's capital, Vilnius. A row over drone strikes in Latvia in the early May even led to the collapse of the country's coalition government.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has proposed that Ukraine become an 'associate member' of the EU, as a kind of preliminary step towards full membership. Kyiv would, for example, be allowed to attend the meetings of EU decision-making bodies, albeit without voting rights. Reactions to the idea have been mixed – also in Europe's opinion sections.