Shanthi Kalathil
Shanthi Kalathil is an independent consultant on media and development. Shanthi is an expert on media, civil society, and political transitions. Previously, she was a Senior Democracy Fellow based in the Office of Democracy and Governance at the U.S. Agency for International Development, where she served as an advisor on civil society and independent media development for Washington-based programs and planning, as well as for various USAID missions around the world.
Her 2003 co-authored book, Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule, examined the political effect of the Internet on eight authoritarian and semi-authoritarian countries. She holds a B.A. in Communications from U.C. Berkeley and a M.Sc. in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Shanthi is particularly interested in issues of voice and accountability and their impact on political transitions.
- 10/18/11 Learning from the Last Five Years: CommGAP and Good Governance
- 09/22/11 Developing Independent Media: New PDF Available
- 09/06/11 Mobile-mapping Corruption
- 08/29/11 Bringing Good Governance into Focus
- 08/15/11 Post-Conflict Lessons: Reconstruction, Stabilization, Governance . . . and Gryffindor?
- 08/04/11 Answering the Right Questions
- 07/21/11 Why Media Literacy Matters
- 06/22/11 Yes, The Revolution Will Be Televised. Now What?
- 06/20/11 Forecasting Failure?
- 06/16/11 Post-Conflict Justice and ICT
- 06/08/11 Putting Donors Out of Work
- 05/30/11 Quote of the Week: Hugo L. Black
- 05/26/11 More on Indices: Evaluating the Evaluators
- 05/19/11 Civil Society: To What Purpose?
- 05/11/11 To Index or Not To Index
- 05/03/11 New Frontiers, New Barriers . . .and the Start of New Conversations?
- 04/20/11 Trying to See Like a Citizen
- 04/14/11 The Good News From Egypt
- 04/05/11 It's Bad News . . . Again
- 03/31/11 Rights-based Principles for the Internet: Are These Enough?
- 02/23/11 Deconstructing People Power
- 02/11/11 Sotto Voce?
- 01/26/11 A Legion of (Wiki)Leaks
- 01/24/11 Quote of the Week: Adlai Stevenson
- 01/20/11 The Public Sphere Enters Public Discourse