The Associated Press just published a fascinating investigation into the use of secret, non-public email addresses by senior US government officials. While the AP has yet to uncover a smoking gun suggesting that the alternate emails were being used to deliberately evade disclosure of information under US Freedom of Information laws, the controversy raises important…
DetailsLast week, Global Integrity was selected as a runner-up for the Omidyar Network Award, an award given out by the Omidyar Network to grantee organizations “who are collaborating with one another in exciting ways as well as those who are exemplifying the values of the network in their own sectors and communities.” We were flattered…
DetailsIf you're like us, it's unlikely you'll have the time to read through all of yesterday's report issued by the High Level Panel on the post-2015 Development Agenda ("A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development"). It's kind of a big deal if you are a development nerd (we are not).…
DetailsA Minister of Transport sits drinking a beer on a restaurant patio. Across from him is the vice president of the country’s leading private railway company. A week later, a multi-million dollar public contract to connect the country’s biggest metropolis to its countryside is awarded to the same vice president’s railway company. Click. It is just…
DetailsOn 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. The document, Artículo XIII "Informe sobre regulación de medios en América Latina”, (Article XIII: Report on Media Regulations…
DetailsUpdate: 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…
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