By Christina Crawley — March 7, 2014. Yesterday, the World Bank hosted a panel session on Maximizing the Impact of Mapping and Crowdsourcing with experts from across the globe at both the civil society and government level. As expected, everyone agreed that while citizen engagement is absolutely essential to international development efforts – whether it…
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We’re thrilled to announce three new directors joining the Global Integrity Board of Directors effective immediately: Dr. Matt Andrews of Harvard University, Andrew Hoppin of New Amsterdam Ideas, and Raina Kumra of Juggernaut. All three bring amazing skill sets and experience to the board, and we couldn’t be happier to welcome them to the Global…
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By Nathaniel Heller — February 21, 2014. The great folks over at the Open Institute just released a new open source software package, dubbed Open Duka, that allows users to visualize the relationships between entries on database tables via an easy-to-use web interface. One obvious use case – which the Open Duka team has helped…
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By Nathaniel Heller — February 11, 2014. In the open government and transparency space, there’s a never-ending thirst for “knowledge sharing” – particularly between governments. If only smart government reformers in County X knew what great stuff their counterparts in Country Y had come up with, goes the theory, we could quickly scale up successful…
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By Nathaniel Heller — February 7, 2014. In recent weeks, a number of leading voices within the international development movement – including the billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates as well as development economist Chris Blattman and tech-for-development expert Charles Kenny – have come out arguing that corruption and governance efforts in developing countries should be de-prioritized relative to other…
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By Christina Crawley — February 3, 2014. The Transparency International Defense and Security Programme is seeking researchers to undertake 6 to 8 days’ work into the corruption risk in national defense and security establishments worldwide. They are looking for suitably qualified and motivated experts to work with us as Country Assessors and Peer Reviewers. [FYI: the Transparency International Defence and…
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