By Global Integrity — January 22, 2014. The following is a proposal from 50 civil society organizations, including Global Integrity, that was coordinated by the Transparency and Accountability Initiative. We have posted the original document here for convenience. Open, inclusive, accountable and effective governance needs to be at the heart of the United Nations’ Post-2015 framework,…
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As we recently mentioned in our 2014 Winter Newsletter, our Indaba team is set to grow, and we still have 1 new position we are looking to fill. User Experience/Interface Designer We’re looking for an ambitious, creative designer to help shape the future of our web-based SaaS research and fieldwork manager product. If you are…
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By Global Integrity — January 7, 2014. We are excited to announce that our friends at the International Budget Partnership (IBP) will use Indaba – our software platform for collecting, discussing, and exporting raw data – for their 2015 Open Budget Survey (OBS). The OBS is, “the one and only independent, comparative, regular measure of…
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There’s a new report out on civic tech from the Knight Foundation making the rounds. It’s worth taking a read through the findings and the data that Knight gathered in their attempt to map the “civic tech” landscape. What I find most important — and perhaps troubling — about the report is its assumptions and…
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The White House just released its second Open Government Partnership National Action Plan. Though a few months late, the plan is meaty, combining both improvements to existing open government initiatives with some new commitments. Alex Howard has a nice summary post here. Here are the two things I find most interesting at first blush: Surveillance…
DetailsA few months ago we started with a project that aimed to convert speeches from the Macedonian Parliament (represented in textual form) into a meaningful format that would be understandable by a more general audience. After months of hard work, on the 4th of November we arrived at a point where we could present the…
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