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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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If you’re reading this post, you know that Global Integrity has a new website! Hooray for us! We thought it’d be useful to share some of the objectives of the redesign as well as the successes and challenges we had in getting it up and running. Why a New Website? Setting aside the reality that…
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