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Collecting Data in Restrictive Environments
By Sun-Min Kim — November 4, 2015. Experiences on overcoming challenges in research and data collection How do organizations collect data in challenging environments and to what end? What difference does increasing public access to information make in restrictive contexts and what have we learned? There are countries where information is not only scarce, but…
November 4, 2015
Abriendo el gobierno: Mexico and beyond
By Michael Moses — October 23, 2015. Supporting progress toward open and accountable governance by conducting research, by generating data, by supporting country-level learning and through global advocacy is what we at Global Integrity are all about (see here for a short note on how we are doing this by putting learning at the centre…
October 23, 2015
Lever of Change? Learning to Make OGP Effective at the Country Level
By Florencia Guerzovich and Michael Moses — October 21, 2015. The Open Government Partnership (OGP) promotes more open, accountable, and responsive governance by challenging reformers in government and civil society to come together to make processes of government more open. Since its inception in 2011, OGP has grown at an extraordinary rate. Sixty-five countries now…
October 21, 2015
Follow the Money: Putting People & Problems First
By Jorge Florez — October 8, 2015. How do citizens use budget information to address particular problems they deem important? For us this is a key question for the fiscal transparency movement and one which, with some interesting exceptions (see here, here and here), has not received the attention it deserves. If citizens are…
October 8, 2015
Assessing African Governance
By Scott Rumpsa — October 7, 2015. This past Monday, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation released their 2015 governance data comprising the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG). Running since 2000, the IIAG is a fantastic dataset, providing a detailed look at governance from a fact based selection of indicators. 36 organizations are involved in the…
Tags: Africa, Afrique, Homeblog, Homepage, Top-Blog, Top-Homepage
October 7, 2015
A Top Performer In Need of Reform: The Curious Case of Georgia’s Political Finance System, and How to Understand the Campaign Finance Indicators
By Michael Moses — September 21, 2015. NB: This post was published as an op-ed in Netgazeti, one of Georgia’s leading newspapers, on September 21, 2015. Check out the published piece here. Early last week, the State Audit Office (SAO) of Georgia published a press release announcing the country’s position at the top of the…
Tags: Top-Blog, Top-Homepage
September 21, 2015