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Media Advisory — Global Integrity Report: 2009 Conference Call
International Nonprofit to Release Report with New Ratings on Anti-Corruption Mechanisms and Government Accountability in 35 countries WHAT: Teleconference — Global Integrity, an award-winning international nonprofit organization that tracks governance and corruption trends globally, will release a new report, highlighting 35 countries, which finds that despite a change of administration in the United States in…
February 22, 2010
New Data! The Global Integrity Report: 2009
Global Integrity is gearing up for the online release of the Global Integrity Report: 2009 which we will unveil this coming Tuesday, February 23rd. While our DC staff is busy finalizing scorecards, notebooks and graphics, our far-flung staff are just as hard at work, spreading the word to their local contacts in civil society, media…
February 19, 2010
Governance and the Trickle-Down Effect: Citizens Monitor Service-Delivery in Georgia
Corruption is often categorized as either petty or grand, with the implication that bribery is the form through which citizens are most directly impacted and inconvenienced in their administrative interactions with government. Despite that conventional wisdom, a number of Global Integrity field staff are taking on initiatives to show how grand corruption and weak institutional…
February 18, 2010
Accidental Censorship: How Did We Get Here?
Part two in a our Accidental Censorship series is a content analysis of Chicago’s local journalism, reprinted from The New News: Journalism We Want and Need (cc by). In it, our friends at the Community Media Workshop explore evidence that newspapers are covering local issues like schools, housing and pollution less than they were 20…
February 8, 2010
Tracking Impact: Romanian Academic Society to Address Problems Identified by Global Integrity
Big news! Today, we received word that the Romanian Academic Society (SAR) earned a grant to implement its Global Integrity Impact Challenge project proposal. With this new funding, SAR will conduct a year-long assessment on the effectiveness of transparency and accountability mechanisms in the Romania’s energy procurement process — a weakness noted in the Global…
February 3, 2010
Brazil 2.0: Journalists Go Online to Open Government Records
In the overlap of technology and democracy, Brazil is an early adopter (see here, here). So it’s no surprise to find a Brazilian journalism group leading the way with online training for journalists on how to use government data to tell stories. ABRAJI (short for the Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo) arms journalists with information…
February 1, 2010