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Pressing Forward Towards the New Frontiers of Open Government
Money in politics. Intrusive government surveillance of the Internet. Personal privacy and media freedoms under threat. All of these issues sit at the frontier of the open government agenda. And virtually none of them are currently present in the more than 1,000 commitments made by governments through their Open Government Partnership National Action Plans. That…
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October 28, 2013
The Art of Designing Data Collection: The Indaba Experience
By Lyle Turner and Monika Shepard With more than a decade of experience collecting millions of data points and working with partners and clients to produce relevant data sets, we at Global Integrity have developed keen insights when it comes to defining and maintaining an optimum data collection process. Here are some thoughts on what…
October 24, 2013
Beneficial Ownership and the Privacy Red Herring
For those working to promote greater public and private sector transparency and accountability, 2013 has been an exciting year, in large part because of the commitment in recent months to open up corporate registries around the world. At the G8 summit earlier this summer, a number of governments pledged to collect information about who really…
October 18, 2013
An Anti-Corruption Take on the Healthcare.gov Procurement Debacle
Some great insights into how a dysfunctional US government IT procurement system helped ruin the launch of healthcare.gov have been penned recently by the likes of Mark Headd, Alex Howard, and Clay Johnson. The basic thrust of these analyses is that balky and process-heavy IT procurement rules and habits led to the selection of slow,…
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October 16, 2013
Highlights of the New www.globalintegrity.org
If you’re reading this post, you know that Global Integrity has a new website! Hooray for us! We thought it’d be useful to share some of the objectives of the redesign as well as the successes and challenges we had in getting it up and running. Why a New Website? Setting aside the reality that…
Join Our New Global Integrity Journalists Group
If you’re a journalist working on corruption, accountability or governance issues, join our Global Integrity Journalists group and be the first to know about our new journalism grants and how to apply. In addition, we frequently have new opportunities for journalists to participate in the Global Integrity Report and other projects. All work is compensated. If you have any…
October 11, 2013