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
Here at Global Integrity (and elsewhere, to be sure) we talk all the time about the need to bridge communities of practice in the broadly defined universe of good governance, transparency, and accountability. With what we perceive to be a continued lack of innovation in the transparency and accountability space, the desire to "link up"…
Last week we covered the unfolding debate over the World Bank's decision to make Google Map Maker available to partner governments and multilaterals. Some observers view the deal as a bad thing given the somewhat restrictive Terms of Service imposed by Map Maker that lock up user-submitted geo-data in a distinctly non-open data way. Today…
Earlier this week, we blogged about our concerns over the deal that the World Bank and Google recently announced that encourages the Bank to make Google Map Maker widely available to its client governments and other multilaterals. Our basic concern was that Map Maker's Terms of Service (TOS) appear to lock public data submitted through…