March 22, 2018 Jorge Florez, Research Manager – Global Integrity Katherine Wikrent, Data Scientist – Open Contracting Partnership Carey Kluttz, Senior Program Manager – Open Contracting Partnership Chelsey Lepage, Program Manager – Reboot New York City is at the forefront of open data at the city level in the US. The city has an open…
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***This blog originally appeared on the Open Gov Hub’s blog on March 8, 2018*** On February 28, the Open Gov Hub organize a special panel event entitled, How Can Supreme Audit Institutions Help Curtail Corruption? The purpose was to compare and learn about how different Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) – the highest government oversight bodies…
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February 22, 2018 Alan Hudson, Executive Director 2017 was a challenging year for champions of open governance, including for those of us enduring at close quarters the democratic reversals and increasingly closed governance of a Trump-led US administration. Political transitions and turbulence around the world have posed challenges to the open governance agenda, including in several…
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February 7, 2018 Alan Hudson, Executive Director Earlier this week, the UK’s Department for International Development published its new strategy on “Open aid, open societies: A vision for a transparent world”, with the Open Society Foundations (OSF) also publishing their strategy for supporting progress towards more open, accountable and equitable fiscal governance. This is hugely…
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January 31, 2018 Alan Hudson, Executive Director TL/DR: Greater attention to the use and impact of budget data – as well as its availability – might support more sustainable progress towards more open budgets that facilitate the tracking and shaping of public resource flows. The launch of the International Budget Partnership’s Open Budget Survey has…
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January 17, 2018 Nada Zohdy, Director – Open Gov Hub ***This post was originally published on the Open Gov Hub’s blog on January 16, 2018*** The second installment in the “Democracy Dialogues” series presented by the Open Gov Hub, Global Integrity, Sunlight Foundation, and Transparency International. Several countries throughout Europe – as well as…
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