Global Integrity is embarking on a five-year collaboration with the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to generate original data on a range of governance issues across all 54 African countries. This data will strengthen future iterations of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, an index based on four main categories: Safety and Rule of Law; Participation and…
DetailsI was fortunate enough to attend the official Open Government Partnership (OGP) launch event in New York City today, including the heads of state meeting/confab at which presidents and prime ministers spoke of their countries' aspirations and commitments under OGP. While we're hoping to do some more in-depth analysis of the eight steering committee governments'…
DetailsAre you part of a civil society organization in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, or Uganda working on improving the efficiency and equity of public spending in the health, education, and water service sectors? If so the, Transparency and Accountability Program (TAP) is looking for up to ten organizations to design and…
DetailsIn 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…
DetailsAs 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…
DetailsAre you an expert on defense and security issues? If the answer is yes, we highly recommend that you apply, by September 14, 2011, to become a Peer Reviewer or Country Assessor for Transparency International UK’s (TI-UK) new project assessing anti-corruption mechanisms in the defense sector in 30 countries. The resultant global index will measure…
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