Integrity: i) The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, and ii) The quality of being whole and complete (The Cambridge Dictionary) In my six years as Executive Director of Global Integrity, we have not spent much time explicitly reflecting on our name. I’d always assumed that we inherited it, having spun off…
Speeding, scaling, and sharpening: A year in the life of Global Integrity Over the course of the last year, governance challenges have deepened in many countries, north, south, east and west. More positively, citizens’ protests against corruption and for urgent action to address the climate emergency have captured headlines, if not just yet the policy…
For those of us keen to support progress towards more open governance, 2018 was a challenging year. The politics and incentives that all too often drive the rich and the powerful to act in their own short-term interests, make the road towards more open and effective governance a very bumpy one, full of obstacles, in…
February 22, 2018 Alan Hudson, Executive Director 2017 was a challenging year for champions of open governance, including for those of us enduring at close quarters the democratic reversals and increasingly closed governance of a Trump-led US administration. Political transitions and turbulence around the world have posed challenges to the open governance agenda, including in several…
Alan Hudson, Executive Director – April 6, 2017 The last 12 months have been an exciting time at Global Integrity. We’ve upped the tempo in terms of implementing our strategy, moving wholeheartedly from making the case for a learning-centered approach to open governance, to putting adaptive learning into practice across everything we do. At project level,…
By Alan Hudson, April 12 2016 Over the last 12 months, we’ve taken huge steps forward in our work to support progress toward more open governance in countries and communities around the world. Hot off the virtual press, our Annual Report outlines what we’ve done to implement our strategy and its focus on “Data, Learning…