US Government Releases Preview of Next OGP Action Plan
As the Open Government Partnership summit kicks off today in London, the US government has released a “preview” of their next National Action Plan. The full report is here.
We’re Hiring! Global Integrity is looking for a Research Manager
Global Integrity is recruiting an experienced manager for our Washington DC office to work on several data-intensive research projects, such as the relaunch of the Global Integrity Report and the Africa Integrity Indicators project. See below the details and how to apply. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. — Hazel Feigenblatt, Managing Director, Research Global Integrity – Organizational Description…
Pressing Forward Towards the New Frontiers of Open Government
Money in politics. Intrusive government surveillance of the Internet. Personal privacy and media freedoms under threat. All of these issues sit at the frontier of the open government agenda. And virtually none of them are currently present in the more than 1,000 commitments made by governments through their Open Government Partnership National Action Plans. That…
The Art of Designing Data Collection: The Indaba Experience
By Lyle Turner and Monika Shepard With more than a decade of experience collecting millions of data points and working with partners and clients to produce relevant data sets, we at Global Integrity have developed keen insights when it comes to defining and maintaining an optimum data collection process. Here are some thoughts on what…
Beneficial Ownership and the Privacy Red Herring
For those working to promote greater public and private sector transparency and accountability, 2013 has been an exciting year, in large part because of the commitment in recent months to open up corporate registries around the world. At the G8 summit earlier this summer, a number of governments pledged to collect information about who really…
An Anti-Corruption Take on the Healthcare.gov Procurement Debacle
Some great insights into how a dysfunctional US government IT procurement system helped ruin the launch of healthcare.gov have been penned recently by the likes of Mark Headd, Alex Howard, and Clay Johnson. The basic thrust of these analyses is that balky and process-heavy IT procurement rules and habits led to the selection of slow,…