Hazel Feigenblatt, Global Integrity’s Managing Director (pictured above), has been invited to become an observer of the Ibrahim Index (IIAG) Advisory Council, a body of eminent academic and professional experts in the field of governance that discusses ways to improve the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG). Global Integrity just completed the first round of…
For Feihu Li, his time at Global Integrity has been one of discovery. “I find Global Integrity’s work compelling,” Li, 35, said. “I have learned many things about transparency and accountability that I hope to bring to China.” An accomplished news editor at the Beijing headquarters of Chinese news agency Xinhua, Li is in the…
Last week, I had a chance to attend the three-year stocktaking retreat for the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, an important donor collaborative comprising several leading foundations and non-governmental organizations active at the international level in promoting government transparency and accountability. During one of the discussions focused on the community's challenges around learning and evidence-based strategy,…
A group of Argentinean technologists, organized in a new political party, is taking a risky move to bring open government to the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires (whose iconic tower is pictured above). The nascent political organization, Partido de la Red (Net Party), seeks to propose and elect candidates to the legislature that…
As noted by Nathaniel Heller in his blog post, “Why Non-Profits Don't Need to Learn to Code,” everyone does not need to learn to code, but I would argue that those who use technology (and these days that’s about everyone), should understand a few root concepts that are the underlying structure of creating files and…
What’s the image of our country? This was just one among the many questions posed by participants at the “Solution in Institutions: Combating Corruption between the State and the Society” conference, held in Cairo, Egypt on Feb. 27 and organized by Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), working in partnership with the Federation of Economic…