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Call for Contributors: The Money, Politics and Transparency Project
By Christina Crawley — April 19, 2014. Global Integrity is embarking on a partnership with the Sunlight Foundation and the Electoral Integrity Project to launch the Money, Politics and Transparency Project. Our goal for this multi-year effort is to promote transparent and effective political finance regimes in countries through evidence-based policy reforms. In parallel, we…
April 19, 2014
Media Transparency and the Indian General Elections
By Riddhi Mehta — April 14, 2014. Why India: 814,500,000 Indians will be taking part in the Indian General Elections The Main Players: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress, Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party, Other smaller political parties The Logistics: The voting will take place over a month (April 7 – May 12) In a…
April 14, 2014
Launching a Discussion About a Governance Data Alliance
By Nathaniel Heller — April 11, 2014. As we’ve written previously, Global Integrity has become increasingly concerned with the lack of coordination amongst the producers of governance and transparency data (organizations like ours) and the lack of effective feedback loops between producers of these data and actual users (governments, donors, researchers, activists). On April 15th…
April 11, 2014
Indaba Counts Down to the State of the Map Conference
In a few days, the 2014 State of the Map Conference will kick off in Washington, D.C. from April 12th – 13th. Our Indaba team is excited to be a first time sponsor of this annual conference about the progress of OpenStreetMap and the open geo-data movement. Alongside sponsors such as Amazon Web Services, CartoDB and Maply, our team will…
April 8, 2014
Collecting and Tracking Mexican Governmental Budget Information
By Global Integrity — April 3, 2014. For nearly the last year and a half, the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO) has been using Global Integrity’s web-based research software, INDABA, to compile information and specific data points for their 2012 and 2013 Mexican state and municipal Budget Information Indices. As of today, they are preparing…
April 3, 2014
Reflecting on Twenty Months of the OpenGov Hub
By Nathaniel Heller — March 31, 2014. Anyone foolish enough to follow me on Twitter knows this has been a crazy few weeks breaking down and moving the inaugural OpenGov Hub from its founding location behind the World Bank to a new, 50% larger, custom-built location just north of McPherson Square in downtown Washington, DC.…
March 31, 2014