This post was originally posted on the State Integrity Investigation Website (Correction 2/13/12 22:00: correct number of indicators updated) In late 2009 I was catching up at a Starbucks with Bill Buzenberg, the Executive Director at the Center for Public Integrity. I told Bill about some of the interesting research Global Integrity was doing at…
DetailsOur friends over at AmericaSpeaks/Global Voices have graciously offered to put together a webinar exploring how Open Government Partnership governments can more effectively engage with their publics in developing their OGP Action Plans. Full details, including how to register, are on the OGP website. We highly recommend the event. — Nathaniel Heller
DetailsHere at Global Integrity (and elsewhere, to be sure) we talk all the time about the need to bridge communities of practice in the broadly defined universe of good governance, transparency, and accountability. With what we perceive to be a continued lack of innovation in the transparency and accountability space, the desire to "link up"…
DetailsLast week we covered the unfolding debate over the World Bank's decision to make Google Map Maker available to partner governments and multilaterals. Some observers view the deal as a bad thing given the somewhat restrictive Terms of Service imposed by Map Maker that lock up user-submitted geo-data in a distinctly non-open data way. Today…
DetailsEarlier this week, we blogged about our concerns over the deal that the World Bank and Google recently announced that encourages the Bank to make Google Map Maker widely available to its client governments and other multilaterals. Our basic concern was that Map Maker's Terms of Service (TOS) appear to lock public data submitted through…
DetailsYesterday we tweeted that we were hearing concerns about the recently signed deal between Google and the World Bank that will allow the Bank to provide Google's Map Maker platform to governments and multilaterals around the world. We've dug around a little more and our concerns haven't dissipated: this is a big deal and could…
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