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Grant Opportunity: Improving the Effectiveness of Public Spending and Service Delivery
Are you part of a civil society organization in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, or Uganda working on improving the efficiency and equity of public spending in the health, education, and water service sectors? If so the, Transparency and Accountability Program (TAP) is looking for up to ten organizations to design and…
September 19, 2011
Romanian Judiciary: Fighting the Software that Fights Corruption
In Romania, a long chain of setbacks shows the judiciary has little interest in working with software designed to prevent manipulation in the distribution of cases among the judges. Reporter Adrian Adrian Mogoş tells the story, which started in 2008 and seems far from reaching a happy ending, despite clear evidence that manipulation happens in…
September 16, 2011
Is Open Data a Good Idea for the Open Government Partnership?
As we’ve blogged before, Global Integrity is working to promote the new Open Government Partnership by serving as the OGP’s Networking Mechanism, which aims to connect aspiring OGP governments with providers of open government expertise (whether governments, civil society organizations, or private companies) to help those aspiring governments develop innovative, “stretch” open government commitments. An…
September 15, 2011
Project Opportunity: Researching Corruption in the Defense Sector
Are you an expert on defense and security issues? If the answer is yes, we highly recommend that you apply, by September 14, 2011, to become a Peer Reviewer or Country Assessor for Transparency International UK’s (TI-UK) new project assessing anti-corruption mechanisms in the defense sector in 30 countries. The resultant global index will measure…
August 26, 2011
Why an Anti-Corruption Commission is a Bad Idea for Libya
I started a virtual stopwatch in my head when I first saw the images of rebel troops entering Tripoli this week. The stopwatch measures how long it will take until I receive a “confidential” email from aid donors requesting Global Integrity’s input on a draft bill to establish an anti-corruption commission in Libya. Based on…
August 25, 2011
Getting Involved with the Open Government Partnership’s Networking Mechanism
Editor's Note: This post is a verbatim transcript of a mass email sent out today inviting governments, civil society, private firms, and others with expertise in open government to participate in the Open Government Partnership's Networking Mechanism. Please repost and spread the word liberally…this is an open and non-exclusive invitation to become engaged. To recieve…
August 4, 2011