On May 3rd, Pan-American Freedom of Speech NGO Alianza Regional por la Libre Expresión e Información (Regional Alliance for Free Speech and Information) published a new report which analyzes media regulations in 16 countries around the region.
Update: On May 23, The Moscow Times reported that Russia had just “postponed” its entry into OGP. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian daily newspaper Kommersant that “we are not talking about winding up plans to join, but corrections in timing and the scale of participation are possible.” Open government advocate David Eaves interprets this state of affairs to mean A) “transparency matters” and B) that “Russia may still be in OGP. Just not soon.
The report highlights the imperative of governments around the world to ensure more accountable and open natural resources sectors. These shifts could impact up to 1 billion people.
Melissa Cawtrha has joined Global Integrity as Project Manager out of our Cape Town office. A native of Durban, South Africa, Cawthra will be working on our Africa Integrity Indicators effort, a collaboration between Global Integrity and the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to strengthen the Ibrahim Index of African Governance.
A comprehensive tool that tracks Chinese development finance was released April 29th by AidData, a partnership between Brigham Young University, the College of William and Mary, and fellow OpenGov Hub tenant, Development Gateway. Released at the Center for Global Development, the online database platform tracks development finance flows to the continent from 2000-2011.
At Global Integrity, we rely on our strong relationships with organizations, consultants, journalists and researchers around the world to facilitate all of our work, from our longstanding Global Integrity Report to our Local Integrity Projects. For growing the usage of our I
Over the last 18 months, the small but agile Indaba team has worked tirelessly to bring some exciting enhancements to the platform, (Indaba 3.0 as I like to call it), as well as launch some cool projects. Our hope with these new changes is to further streamline the online data collection process for colleagues and partners around the world.
How do you get Floridians to care about state politics, let alone ethics reform?
The state’s millenials rank below the national average for civic engagement, and, in Miami, the general population ranks the lowest, according to studies by the National Conference on Citizenship. Florida not surprisingly, received a poor grade in the State Integrity Investigation for corruption risk.
This week is an exciting week for the Indaba fieldwork platform. After several months of design, development, and testing, we went live today with some new and powerful features, notably Control Panel (which allows project managers to more easily design and launch their projects) and important enhancements to Fieldwork Manager (like being able to send Question Lists to any user on a project at any point in the workflow) We'll dive more deeply into these upgrades and what they mean for running more powerful and efficient Indaba projects in a separate post.
