Monthly Archives: September 2011

Romanian Judiciary: Fighting the Software that Fights Corruption

In Romania, a long chain of setbacks shows the judiciary has little interest in working with software designed to prevent manipulation in the distribution of cases among the judges. Reporter Adrian Adrian Mogoş tells the story, which started in 2008 and seems far from reaching a happy ending, despite clear evidence that manipulation happens in…

Is Open Data a Good Idea for the Open Government Partnership?

As we’ve blogged before, Global Integrity is working to promote the new Open Government Partnership by serving as the OGP’s Networking Mechanism, which aims to connect aspiring OGP governments with providers of open government expertise (whether governments, civil society organizations, or private companies) to help those aspiring governments develop innovative, “stretch” open government commitments. An…