By Jorge Florez, Project Manager & Balam Barcelo, Investigador del IMCO* – Versión en Inglés acá, May 13, 2016 Estamos encantados de haber pasado dos semanas compartiendo con socios locales en México para apoyar sus esfuerzos por diseñar e implementar compromisos para seguir el gobierno; compromisos para facilitar que los ciudadanos puedan entender cómo…
By Jorge Florez, Project Manager & Balam Barcelo, Researcher at IMCO* – Spanish Version here, May 13, 2016 We are thrilled to have spent two weeks in Mexico visiting local partners to support their efforts to design and implement commitments to follow the money – or to enable citizens to see how public resources…
By Alan Hudson, Executive Director, May 11, 2016 Corruption and how to tackle it is center-stage in London this week, with the spotlight brighter than ever as a result of the Panama Papers. This is welcome news. The Anti-Corruption Summit, hosted by the UK’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, can play an important role in…
By Alan Hudson — April 4, 2016 Making aid payments conditional on results has intuitive appeal and is an idea that has been given a lot of attention in aid-world in recent years, with the Center for Global Development leading the charge. The tide now seems to have turned, with early enthusiasm replaced by doubts and…
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 Jorge Florez — November 23, 2015. Can citizens find and make use of the data they need to track the use of their taxes – to follow the money – in relation to particular issues? On October 24th and 25th, we gathered 10 teams of Mexican citizens interested in transparency and open government –…