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Meet Christina Crawley
We’re thrilled to welcome Christina Crawley as the inaugural Manager for the OpenGov Hub community, a shared, open workspace for like-minded organizations in downtown Washington, D.C. that’s set to open in early-October. As the primary point of contact for the OpenGov Hub, Christina will play a key role in making the Hub community a gathering point for…
September 6, 2012
The Open Government Partnership’s Make or Break Year
[Edited on 7 September 2012 to remove an inadvertant reference to internal Steering Committee deliberations, and to correct descriptions of staffing levels.] As the Open Government Partnership enters its second full year as an established international initiative, there’s much to be celebrated. More than 50 governments have signaled their commitment to open government reforms by…
Beyond Text, Few Parallels between New Russian and Existing U.S. CSO Laws
On August 14th, the Woodrow Wilson Center hosted a lecture called “Understanding and Responding to Attacks on Civil Society: The Rule of Politics and Law.” Panelist Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy, qualified new Russian legislation as an “attack” on the freedom of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). I was intrigued to hear…
August 29, 2012
What’s behind the hasty ethics reform in South Carolina?
Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina surprised us yesterday with an unexpected initiative – a comprehensive ethics reform at the state level. The reform includes five elements, as presented on the initiative’s poster: “no incumbent exemptions for election filings, mandatory conflict of interest recusals, one ethics commission for all public officials, total income disclosure, freedom…
August 23, 2012
SURPRISE: Governor, Attorney General Spring Sudden “Ethics Reform” Package
This post was originally published here on August 22 by Free Times, Columbia, South Carolina's free weekly. UPDATE: Republican House Speaker Bobby Harrell says he wasn’t contacted about Haley’s ethics package. Harrell also said,“The biggest driving force behind the need for ethics reform in our state was brought about by Governor Haley’s own questionable actions.…
Ghana: Need For Power in Ghana Turns ‘Victims into Villains’
The state company Electricity of Ghana (ECG)’s then-Managing Director Cephas Gakpo announced in April 2010 that US$430 million would be dedicated to improving electricity distribution within the next six to 18 months. But by the end of 2011, lack of solutions to deal with illegal connections and frequent unannounced power outages continued, culminating in the…
August 17, 2012