What’s next for media independence and sustainability indices? A study that considers the role of informal information networks and forms of media such as popular songs? An assessment of the role of different forms of media on one local community? These are some of the more interesting comments to come out of a recent Center…
Global Integrity and the Rwanda Governance Advisory Council have released the final conclusions and recommendations from our jointly sponsored Dialogue Workshop held in Kigali earlier this year. As part of our Global Integrity Dialogue series, Nathaniel and I traveled to Rwanda in May. In Kigali, we met with partners from the Rwanda Governance Advisory Council…
Earlier this week, Boing Boing published an email interview with the elusive author of Blog Del Narco. This is the longest published interview I have seen with the anonymous blogger whose extensive reporting on the activities of Mexico’s drug gangs has brought international attention to his website. Following the hype, we recently asked two members…
In this post, we feature a detailed look at the different structures for Supreme Audit Institutions in African nations. Andy Wynne, a new member to the Global Integrity field staff, describes how the models for government auditing bodies are direct descendents of colonial rule: “One approach is adopted by the Anglophone countries and the other…
This summer, we followed up on a New York Times report featuring the positive results of India’s right to information law. Tracking with data from the Global Integrity Report: India citizens are filing a high number of personal requests to break down corruption-related barriers to service delivery– The Times cite preferential treatment in housing grant…
“Narco-traffickers, the professional killers, executors (or sicarios) and their bosses like to be considered heroes, like those they see in their favorite action movie… They want their messages across the news to say one thing: they are the most powerful, the strongest and merciless.” In the second part of our series on “narco-censorship” in Mexico,…