By Nathaniel Heller and Alicia Phillips Mandaville — April 28, 2014. Last week, roughly 40 colleagues gathered at the OpenGov Hub in Washington, D.C., to brainstorm and debate around possibilities for a Governance Data Alliance, an idea focused on improving coordination in the production of governance data while simultaneously establishing and strengthening feedback loops between producers and actual…
By Riddhi Mehta — April 14, 2014. Why India: 814,500,000 Indians will be taking part in the Indian General Elections The Main Players: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress, Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party, Other smaller political parties The Logistics: The voting will take place over a month (April 7 – May 12) In a…
By Nathaniel Heller — April 11, 2014. As we’ve written previously, Global Integrity has become increasingly concerned with the lack of coordination amongst the producers of governance and transparency data (organizations like ours) and the lack of effective feedback loops between producers of these data and actual users (governments, donors, researchers, activists). On April 15th…
In a few days, the 2014 State of the Map Conference will kick off in Washington, D.C. from April 12th – 13th. Our Indaba team is excited to be a first time sponsor of this annual conference about the progress of OpenStreetMap and the open geo-data movement. Alongside sponsors such as Amazon Web Services, CartoDB and Maply, our team will…
By Global Integrity — April 3, 2014. For nearly the last year and a half, the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO) has been using Global Integrity’s web-based research software, INDABA, to compile information and specific data points for their 2012 and 2013 Mexican state and municipal Budget Information Indices. As of today, they are preparing…
By Nathaniel Heller — March 31, 2014. Anyone foolish enough to follow me on Twitter knows this has been a crazy few weeks breaking down and moving the inaugural OpenGov Hub from its founding location behind the World Bank to a new, 50% larger, custom-built location just north of McPherson Square in downtown Washington, DC.…