American schizophrenia on data protection in the Open Government Partnership

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.…

Global Integrity is Looking for Journalists and Editors

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…

Reflections on the 2014 Investigative Journalism, Democracy and Human Rights Conference

By Global Integrity — August 21, 2014.  Ntibinyane Ntibinyane is an experienced investigative reporter in Botswana and the winner of a scholarship Global Integrity offered for one African journalist to participate in the international conference Holding Power to Account: Investigative Journalism, Democracy and Human Rights, last June in Canada. Here he shares his experience in the…