By Nathaniel Heller — March 27, 2014. “What?!” is probably most readers’ reaction to that headline. Of course we know that money in politics transparency is a big problem. Tell us something new. What worries me is that we say it’s a problem, but in practice very few people and organizations are working hard to…
By Nathaniel Heller — March 19, 2014. The always-thoughtful Matin Tisne raises some important questions and ideas about ways in which the Open Government Partnership (OGP), and open government evangelists generally (this author included), can better appeal to and work with private sector actors. I too have been wrestling with the same question as of…
Global Integrity will offer a scholarship for an African journalist (based in Africa) to attend the international investigative journalism conference Holding Power to Account from 13-15 June 2014 in Winnipeg, Canada. The conference is organized by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the University of Winnipeg. The scholarship will cover the flight from the reporter’s home country…
By Christina Crawley — March 7, 2014. Yesterday, the World Bank hosted a panel session on Maximizing the Impact of Mapping and Crowdsourcing with experts from across the globe at both the civil society and government level. As expected, everyone agreed that while citizen engagement is absolutely essential to international development efforts – whether it…
We’re thrilled to announce three new directors joining the Global Integrity Board of Directors effective immediately: Dr. Matt Andrews of Harvard University, Andrew Hoppin of New Amsterdam Ideas, and Raina Kumra of Juggernaut. All three bring amazing skill sets and experience to the board, and we couldn’t be happier to welcome them to the Global…
By Nathaniel Heller — February 21, 2014. The great folks over at the Open Institute just released a new open source software package, dubbed Open Duka, that allows users to visualize the relationships between entries on database tables via an easy-to-use web interface. One obvious use case – which the Open Duka team has helped…