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Notes from the Chamber of Commerce: Let’s Get Smarter About Corporate Social Responsibility
The role of business is changing. That was the take home message from last week’s Emerging Market Development conference, sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Recent emphasis on “corporate social responsibility” has pushed businesses to wade into pools that would have been completely foreign to managers a decade ago. The conference sought to guide…
October 8, 2009
Journalist Attacked in Kuwait
Reuters is reporting that Kuwaiti journalist Zayed al-Zaid was physically attacked and wounded after leaving a transparency summit earlier this week. (Global Integrity later was told Zaid had actually been at headquarters of a political movement prior to the attack.) Zaid is the editor of an online news source known for its corruption-focused investigative reporting…
October 7, 2009
Internal Transparency: Our 2008 Tax Return
As promised in a previous post, you can now access Global Integrity’s 2008 federal tax return (“Form 990”) on our Funders & Financials page. — Nathaniel Heller
Kick-off Seminar for the Latin America Local Governance Toolkit
Lea la versión en español abajo. An all-day seminar entitled “The promotion of a reform agenda for the institutional quality at the level sub-national: the experience of Argentina, Peru and Ecuador,” held Wednesday September 30th, marked the official release of the most recent project of Global Integrity’s Local Integrity Initiative, in which in-country partner groups…
October 6, 2009
Which Index of African Governance? More on the Break Between Ibrahim and Rotberg
Following up on our post yesterday concerning the split between Harvard and the Mo Ibrahim Foundation over the Index of African Governance, we’ve discovered more on the causes for the partnership’s dissolve. The New York Times’ Celia Dugger writes a story today revealing a few new tidbits, among them that Dani Kaufman, co-creator of the…
Looking Ahead: The U.S. Supreme Court’s New Term
The 2009-2010 session of the U.S. Supreme Court officially kicks off today and NPR launched a cool interactive feature with summaries of the major court cases facing the new bench. One highlighted case has the potential to topple much of the national campaign financing legislation built up over the past century. In fact, the Court…
October 5, 2009
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