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Perhaps the Obama Doctrine is Open Government
By Nathaniel Heller Former State Department and White House aide Will Inboden (who’s also an all-around smart guy and deep thinker on international relations) recently penned an opinion piece in Foreign Policy arguing that President Obama’s strategic approach to foreign policy — an Obama Doctrine, if you will — is, in fact, no doctrine at all.…
September 20, 2013
How Science Fiction is Putting the Issues of Transparency and Corruption in the Public Eye
Once considered the realm of the nerdy and anti-social and rarely taken seriously, Sci-Fi is slowly but surely coming into the mainstream. Shows like Game of Thrones, Battlestar Galactica, the Stargate franchise, and Doctor Who have not only captured the imaginations of a niche market but have found appeal among wider audiences by not being afraid to ask the important questions and…
August 16, 2013
Liberia: A Journalist, a Blackboard, Some Chalk and Open Government
This is the second entry in the “No Hash Tag blog series: Low-Tech Approaches to Open Government and Transparency.” He is widely read and respected; yet he does not work for any media company. He doesn’t even use a Twitter account, nor is he active on any other social media platform: chalk and a blackboard are…
How Science Fiction is Putting the Issues of Transparency and Corruption in the Public Eye (I)
Once considered the realm of the nerdy and anti-social and rarely taken seriously, Sci-Fi is slowly but surely coming into the mainstream. Shows like Game of Thrones, Battlestar Galactica, the Stargate franchise, and Doctor Who have not only captured the imaginations of a niche market but have found appeal among wider audiences by not being afraid to ask the important questions and…
Tags: continuum, defiance, scifi, transparency
August 12, 2013
How Cheetahs are Bringing More Transparency to Africa
The current rise of a technologically savvy, socially conscious generation across Africa is forcing local governments and institutions to become more transparent and less corrupt, according Jon Gosier, director of “The Cheetah Code,” a documentary about technological entrepreneurs in the continent. The film chronicles Africa’s young entrepreneurs, creative class, and emerging technology sector. The name…
Tags: Africa, change, economics, entrepreneurship, Top-Homepage, transparency
August 9, 2013
Meet Lyle Turner, Our New Managing Director of Technology and Product Development
Lyle Turner has joined Global Integrity as our Managing Director of Technology and Product Development, to initially focus on scaling up Indaba, our data collection software. In this new role, Turner will oversee Indaba’s software development strategy moving forward and help Global Integrity achieve penetration of the platform into a much larger user base. “I…
Tags: director, Indaba, technology
July 31, 2013