We are excited to be in Tbilisi, Georgia, this week for the OGP Global Summit! The venue looks awesome, the agenda looks great, and we’re looking forward to connecting with colleagues from around the world. These are challenging times for open government; our hope is that by learning from others, by asking tough questions, and…
Details
July 10, 2018 Version française ci-dessous Call for Contributors in Africa Global Integrity is starting its seventh round of research of the Africa Integrity Indicators (AII), an annual project undertaken in partnership with the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. The project assesses key social, economic, political and anti-corruption mechanisms at the national level in all African countries.…
Details
Event here at the Open Gov Hub coming up About this event Corruption researchers tend to focus a lot of attention on why systemically corrupt countries fail to improve and why anticorruption efforts often fall flat. As such, the field has had a difficult time identifying and explaining how positive change happens in order to…
Details
***This post originally appeared on the Open Gov Hub’s blog on June 4, 2018*** On May 15, the Open Gov Hub hosted When and Why Development Fails: The Road to Building State Capability – convening leading experts to discuss why so many governments struggle to deliver basic services to their people, and how international development practitioners can better support…
Details
May 23, 2018 Alan Hudson, Executive Director Last week at the Open Gov Hub we hosted a discussion with Michael Woolcock, one of the co-authors – along with Matt Andrews and Lant Pritchett – of “Building State Capability”. A full write-up, including insightful contributions from Sandra Naranjo, the former Vice President of Ecuador, and Rachel…
Details
May 3, 2018 Alan Hudson, Executive Director My role was to provide some commentary on a number of government-led projects that had been selected by INAI as the best examples of using proactive transparency to enable people and organizations to make better decisions and take more effective action. The projects covered a range of spheres…
Details