[Editor's note: edited at 15:40 2-24-12 to correct a mistakenly posted earlier draft] On Wednesday, several organizations, including Global Integrity, met with the open data team at the World Bank to discuss open data trends as well as concerns over the recently-announced partnership between the World Bank and Google to promote Google's Map Maker platform…
On Tuesday, March 6 from Noon to 1:30 PM, Global Integrity will be presenting findings from its recent research project on Information Access in Health Care Service Delivery in Papua New Guinea. The brown bag will be hosted by R4D (Results for Development Institute), located at 1100 15th Street NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC. Nathaniel Heller…
Today marks the last day at Global Integrity for Jonathan Eyler-Werve. This is a bittersweet moment that I wanted to commemorate. As many readers of this blog know, Jonathan was employee #1 at Global Integrity and has played an instrumental role in the organization's growth during the past several years, particularly our embrace of technology…
This blog was originally posted on the getindaba.org website. In 2011, we validated our hypothesis about what Indaba can offer to a distributed team creating a scorecard, index, or similar data collection project. Our job for 2012 is scale. Big scale. We want more users, more speed, and more great projects coming out. To do this, we…
This post was originally posted on the State Integrity Investigation Website (Correction 2/13/12 22:00: correct number of indicators updated) In late 2009 I was catching up at a Starbucks with Bill Buzenberg, the Executive Director at the Center for Public Integrity. I told Bill about some of the interesting research Global Integrity was doing at…
Our friends over at AmericaSpeaks/Global Voices have graciously offered to put together a webinar exploring how Open Government Partnership governments can more effectively engage with their publics in developing their OGP Action Plans. Full details, including how to register, are on the OGP website. We highly recommend the event. — Nathaniel Heller