The current rise of a technologically savvy, socially conscious generation across Africa is forcing local governments and institutions to become more transparent and less corrupt, according Jon Gosier, director of “The Cheetah Code,” a documentary about technological entrepreneurs in the continent. The film chronicles Africa’s young entrepreneurs, creative class, and emerging technology sector. The name…
The State Integrity Investigation (SII), a collaboration between Global Integrity, the Center for Public Integrity and Public Radio International, has been nominated for the prestigious 2013 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, awarded by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. SII is an unprecedented, data-driven…
Back in April, we launched a public discussion about the future of the Global Integrity Report with a debate around ways we might “open source” the Report to include more voices in the process of generating our national-level anti-corruption and accountability assessments. That event kick-started an internal review process that while far from complete, has…
Last Friday we launched the Global Integrity Report: 2011. In generating this year’s report, we began thinking about ways in which we could take the research forward in a novel and inventive way. One option we began to discuss internally was to “open source” the Report by producing in-depth documentation and providing free public access…
29 out of 31 countries assessed fail at enforcing political finance laws, regardless of how weak or strong their regulations Washington D.C., Friday, March 30, 2012 – Regardless of how weak or sophisticated their political financing regulations are, countries around the world are equally failing to effectively regulate the flow of money into politics, a…
For those on Livestream that won’t be able to see this presentation well, below is Global Integrity Executive Director Nathaniel Heller’s presentation. Open Sourcing the Global Integrity Report on Prezi You can also participate of the discussion on the wiki created for this event: http://bit.ly/GUEyG6.