By Alan Hudson — October 28, 2014. Last week, I was pleased to be part of a two-day event on “Doing Development Differently,” organized by the Overseas Development Institute and the Building State Capability program at the Harvard Kennedy School. The aim of the event was to bring together various related conversations and initiatives about…
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By Nathaniel Heller — October 16, 2014. With the recent launch of the UN Secretary General’s Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development, development and data gurus have begun focusing in earnest on how precisely the increasing availability of data in the coming decades could or could not accelerate development efforts.…
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Global Integrity will offer a scholarship for a journalist based in an Arab country to attend the 7th Annual Conference for Arab Investigative Journalists on December 5-7 2014 in Amman, Jordan. The conference is organized by the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ). The scholarship will cover the flight from the reporter’s home country to…
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By Alan Hudson — October 8, 2014. I’ve worked on issues around governance for a number of years. So I’m totally signed up to the idea that governance – the institutions or rules of the game that structure the relationship between citizens and their states – matters. I’m very glad that over the last 20…
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By Nathaniel Heller — September 25, 2014. The United States yesterday announced four significant new commitments as part of its evolving Open Government Partnership National Action Plan (NAP). The Obama administration should be applauded for continuing to implement a serious, iterative approach to strengthening its NAP after having stepped down from its founding chair position.…
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Global Integrity is looking for reporters and editors to work on two projects. The first one is the State Integrity Investigation, a combination of research and reporting into state government ethics, transparency and accountability laws and their enforcement. The result will be stories and state-by-state rankings of government accountability mechanisms, complete with scorecards, grades and…
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