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Internship Opportunity for Communications Graduate Student
Global Integrity, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting transparency and accountability reforms, has a communications or public relations internship position available from November 2011-March 2012. The chosen candidate will be responsible for: -Tracking and analyzing international audiences for the Global Integrity Report; -Researching global communication strategies and contributing to the Global Integrity Report 2011 launch; -Writing and…
October 5, 2011
Open Government Partnership Countries Focus on Access to Information and Anti-corruption
With the launch of the Open Government Partnership barely two weeks behind us, we started to look over the country commitments announced by the eight steering committee governments. A challenge that we quickly confronted: how to “compare” the various commitments, which varied greatly in their substance, style, and format. To help provide some raw data…
September 29, 2011
Outputs versus Outcomes in Open Government
Al Kags posted a really thoughtful analysis of why focusing on quick hit tech projects in the context of open government should be a priority for those engaged in the open government movement. The same day I read Al Kags’ piece, I stumbled across another useful post from the always-smart Matt Andrews at Harvard, who…
September 26, 2011
World Bank Seeking Experts to Advise on Conflict of Interest Legislation Indicators
Our friends at the World Bank are looking for some help with their Public Accountability Mechanisms (PAM) initiative. (In the interest of full disclosure, the World Bank has funded some of Global Integrity’s projects.) The World Bank’s Public Accountability Mechanisms (PAM) Initiative aims at creating a set of actionable indicators to monitor transparency and…
September 23, 2011
Call for Contributors: Governance Research in Africa
Global Integrity is embarking on a five-year collaboration with the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to generate original data on a range of governance issues across all 54 African countries. This data will strengthen future iterations of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, an index based on four main categories: Safety and Rule of Law; Participation and…
September 21, 2011
Flash Reactions to the Open Government Partnership Launch
I was fortunate enough to attend the official Open Government Partnership (OGP) launch event in New York City today, including the heads of state meeting/confab at which presidents and prime ministers spoke of their countries' aspirations and commitments under OGP. While we're hoping to do some more in-depth analysis of the eight steering committee governments'…
September 20, 2011