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We’re sad to pass along the news that our long-time colleague Norah Mallaney has left Global Integrity to pursue a career in education reform. Norah has taken a new position with the Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools here in Washington, DC. We’re in the process of bringing on a couple of new colleagues and hope…

UPDATE: See the Indaba project website at http://getindaba.org After 13 months of development, the third generation of Global Integrity’s online fieldwork platform, Indaba, went live yesterday. Hooray! Indaba was deployed in the field for the first time ever yesterday as lead researchers for the Global Integrity Report: 2010 began to gather data and information in…

What’s next for media independence and sustainability indices? A study that considers the role of informal information networks and forms of media such as popular songs? An assessment of the role of different forms of media on one local community? These are some of the more interesting comments to come out of a recent Center…

Global Integrity and the Rwanda Governance Advisory Council have released the final conclusions and recommendations from our jointly sponsored Dialogue Workshop held in Kigali earlier this year. As part of our Global Integrity Dialogue series, Nathaniel and I traveled to Rwanda in May. In Kigali, we met with partners from the Rwanda Governance Advisory Council…

Earlier this week, Boing Boing published an email interview with the elusive author of Blog Del Narco. This is the longest published interview I have seen with the anonymous blogger whose extensive reporting on the activities of Mexico’s drug gangs has brought international attention to his website. Following the hype, we recently asked two members…

In this post, we feature a detailed look at the different structures for Supreme Audit Institutions in African nations. Andy Wynne, a new member to the Global Integrity field staff, describes how the models for government auditing bodies are direct descendents of colonial rule: “One approach is adopted by the Anglophone countries and the other…