Global Integrity has begun new work in Guatemala supporting the Guatemalan Vice President’s efforts to promote transparency and accountability reforms. This is a first for us (working directly with a government) and so we thought it important to be as fully transparent as possible about our engagement in the country. You can follow the ongoing…
The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) and the National Endowment for Democracy just announced the launch of The Media Law Assistance Website. CIMA describes the new site as filling a gap by providing information on international media laws as well as a forum to discuss the prmotion of press freedom. CIMA’s Press Release: In…
After a flurry of voting we are pleased to announce the winners of the Global Integrity Impact Challenge. Each of these projects represents a novel and locally created strategy for translating the insights in the Global Integrity Report into direct policy change. Our winners are: Voies Nouvelles (Cameroon) Romanian Academic Society …and a tie for…
Foreign Policy’s blog The Cable covers Mahmood Karzai’s visit to Washington. The brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai is notable for scoring millions of dollars in U.S. government loans and other uncommonly good fortune in his business dealings. He spoke today on how to deter corruption. See also our coverage of President Karzai’s asset disclosures.…
In February, this blog highlighted John Ackerman’s argument that it is misguided to quickly dub Mexico a “failed narco-state.” Ackerman acknowledges that the frightening levels of violence surrounding drug movement have crippled Mexico’s government, but he argues that the ineffectiveness of the state stems more from weak governance structures than the direct influence of drugs.…
The Center for Responsive Politics has opened its campaign finance database — a treasure trove of US money-in-politics data going back some 20 years — to the public under a Creative Commons license. An API also allows third parties to build web applications using that data, similar to what you see in the fantastic MAPlight.org…