By Johannes Tonn — March 8, 2016. Last week, I participated in the launch of the Governance Data Alliance (GDA), a consortium of organizations joining forces to better understand how the marketplace for governance data works and how the field collectively — data producers, users and funders — might be able to make it work more efficiently. As…
By Johannes Tonn — November 9, 2015. Today, we are excited to present the results of the second round of the State Integrity Investigation – a research project that compiles and assesses qualitative data on the state of transparency, accountability and anti-corruption mechanisms in all 50 US states. We conducted a first round of the project…
By Sun-Min Kim — November 4, 2015. Experiences on overcoming challenges in research and data collection How do organizations collect data in challenging environments and to what end? What difference does increasing public access to information make in restrictive contexts and what have we learned? There are countries where information is not only scarce, but…
By Scott Rumpsa — October 7, 2015. This past Monday, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation released their 2015 governance data comprising the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG). Running since 2000, the IIAG is a fantastic dataset, providing a detailed look at governance from a fact based selection of indicators. 36 organizations are involved in the…
By Hazel Feigenblatt — August 26, 2015. Pour le français cliquez ici. For the past three years, Global Integrity and our network of more than 200 African researchers and reviewers have been working hard on a new indicator-based assessment looking into transparency and accountability issues in all 54 African countries. Starting today, the new…
Par Hazel Feigenblatt — August 26, 2015. For English click here. Au cours des trois dernières années, Global Integrity et son réseau de plus de 200 chercheurs et évaluateurs africains ont travaillé sans relâche sur une nouvelle évaluation basée sur des indicateurs couvrant les questions de transparence et de redevabilité dans les 54 pays africains.…