What can you do to make your Mashup Challenge entry stand out? (Click here for an overview of the Global Integrity Mashup Challenge.) Pick a unique entry point. We want fresh, creative, analytical pieces. This could look like a colorful chart displaying the greatest overall choke-points to corruption reform. Originality is key but so is…
On April 6, the Center for International Private Enterprise will host a presentation and open discussion of the results of the Global Integrity Report: 2009. We would love to see our DC-based friends and colleagues there. Please see below for the full invitation and rsvp details. The Center for International Private Enterprise cordially invites you…
Coming off the glow of Sunshine Week, this post serves as a reminder to the difficulties journalists and citizens can face. Here we look to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the country’s haphazard regional information access systems. Last month, I caught up with Dino Jahić and Azhar Kalamujić, co-authors of the 2009 Corruption Notebook: Bosnia…
Global Integrity’s latest data from Brazil was posted live on our website earlier today. The Brazil scorecard is part of the Global Integrity Report: 2009, a collection of bottom-up data gathering and reporting on the existence and effectiveness of national level anti-corruption systems. The Brazil scorecard shows a mixed picture, with good news on civil…
Commercials showed humble peasant families as the people who’d benefit from a new government subsidy program intended for farmers. Soon after, though, entire families of campaign donors were receiving millionaire subsidies. Beauty queens and extradited criminals tagged along as well. In the 2009 Reporter’s Notebook: Colombia, award-winning reporter Ignacio Gómez tells a story about how…
In Nepal, tourists don’t need to leave the airport to start experiencing the “adventures” of visiting one of the most corrupt countries in the world. True to the country’s bad reputation, corruption makes a quick appearance as soon as passengers arrive and are victims of everything from bribes to plain theft, by staff of the…