On Friday, March 30th from 10:30 AM to noon, at Johns Hopkins-SAIS Rome Building (1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC), Rome Room (first floor), Global Integrity will host an in-depth discussion with leading experts and a public brainstorming around open source and community-led projects, and government transparency. The conversation will follow a brief presentation of…
DetailsShortly after news of the deal between Google and the World Bank to promote Google Map Maker data to foreign governments broke, I filed a formal information request from the World Bank asking for a copy of the agreement between Google and the Bank. The Bank, to its credit, responded well within the 20 working…
Details[Editor's note: edited at 15:40 2-24-12 to correct a mistakenly posted earlier draft] On Wednesday, several organizations, including Global Integrity, met with the open data team at the World Bank to discuss open data trends as well as concerns over the recently-announced partnership between the World Bank and Google to promote Google's Map Maker platform…
DetailsOn Tuesday, March 6 from Noon to 1:30 PM, Global Integrity will be presenting findings from its recent research project on Information Access in Health Care Service Delivery in Papua New Guinea. The brown bag will be hosted by R4D (Results for Development Institute), located at 1100 15th Street NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC. Nathaniel Heller…
DetailsToday marks the last day at Global Integrity for Jonathan Eyler-Werve. This is a bittersweet moment that I wanted to commemorate. As many readers of this blog know, Jonathan was employee #1 at Global Integrity and has played an instrumental role in the organization's growth during the past several years, particularly our embrace of technology…
DetailsThis blog was originally posted on the getindaba.org website. In 2011, we validated our hypothesis about what Indaba can offer to a distributed team creating a scorecard, index, or similar data collection project. Our job for 2012 is scale. Big scale. We want more users, more speed, and more great projects coming out. To do this, we…
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