Dakar, Senegal was host city to UNDP’s recent Africa Forum on Civil Society and Governance Assessments. It brought together researchers, development practitioners and technology experts from more than 30 countries to reflect on best practices in civil society and governance assessments and how to promote democratic governance through increased accountability and inclusive participation (buzzwords!). A…
Recently, Global Integrity’s Africa-based team (Marianne Camerer, Erica Penfold and Dadisai Taderera) hosted an expert roundtable and public seminar to consult on a new set of indicators that will eventually feed into the Ibrahim Index of African Governance. Both events took place at our new offices located in the elegant Armoury building in Woodstock, Cape…
(This blog post was crossposted over at the Transparency and Accountability Technology Project.) Global Integrity focuses an increasingly significant amount of its time on technology-related initiatives – building, using, and supporting other organizations that are on the Indaba fieldwork platform is one obvious example. As we’ve continued to grow into a technology-focused organization (while certainly not abandoning…
Tanzania has seen its fair share of corruption cases, but vote buying for the 2010 general election turned into a circus, with everything from candidates paying rivals to pull out of the race to soccer matches organized around offering money in exchange for votes. Tanzanian report Mike Mande tells the story in Vote Buying Mars…
Interested in helping some of the United States’ leading investigative journalists review corruption risk data across the fifty states? Have experience working with state governments in the US and want to get paid for that work? Then we have a job for you! The State Integrity Investigation – a three-way collaboration between Global Integrity, the…
Since April 2010, President Roza Otunbaeva and the transitional government of Kyrgyzstan have been working hard to reform the Kyrgyz political system. With a myriad of challenges ahead of them, including corruption, a new parliamentary system of government is expected to role over to a new president by the end of October 2011. However, before…