The Mexican Government, the Secretariat General of the Organization of American States (OAS), the Inter-American Development Bank (TBC), and the Open Government Partnership (OGP) hosted a discussion in Mexico City this week on the progress, challenges, and opportunities around transparency, accountability, and citizen participation as elements of an open government. We were there to help…
Yesterday, The State Integrity Investigation, a partnership between the Center for Public Integrity, Global Integrity and Public Radio International to measure the risk of corruption in every US state, released full state report cards. They include letter grades, reporter comments and research details, as well as each state's rank among all 50 states. The State Integrity Investigation is…
On Friday, March 30th from 10:30 AM to noon, at Johns Hopkins-SAIS Rome Building (1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC), Rome Room (first floor), Global Integrity will host an in-depth discussion with leading experts and a public brainstorming around open source and community-led projects, and government transparency. The conversation will follow a brief presentation of…
Shortly after news of the deal between Google and the World Bank to promote Google Map Maker data to foreign governments broke, I filed a formal information request from the World Bank asking for a copy of the agreement between Google and the Bank. The Bank, to its credit, responded well within the 20 working…
[Editor's note: edited at 15:40 2-24-12 to correct a mistakenly posted earlier draft] On Wednesday, several organizations, including Global Integrity, met with the open data team at the World Bank to discuss open data trends as well as concerns over the recently-announced partnership between the World Bank and Google to promote Google's Map Maker platform…
On Tuesday, March 6 from Noon to 1:30 PM, Global Integrity will be presenting findings from its recent research project on Information Access in Health Care Service Delivery in Papua New Guinea. The brown bag will be hosted by R4D (Results for Development Institute), located at 1100 15th Street NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC. Nathaniel Heller…
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