Last night I Tweeted that describing work-related travel as “going on mission…was lame. Just lame.” This quip engendered some interesting responses out in the Twitterverse, by which I mean that people who are much smarter than me with many more Twitter followers (Todd Moss, Chris Blattman) retweeted it. Naturally, and because I needed another excuse…
On a quick three-day work trip to Prague this week (to help run a Global Integrity Dialogue workshop with the Czech Ministry of Interior and US Embassy), I finally had a chance to read Michael Lewis’ classic Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. Moneyball tells the story of how the Oakland Athletics baseball…
Global Integrity, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting transparency and accountability reforms, has a communications or public relations internship position available from November 2011-March 2012. The chosen candidate will be responsible for: -Tracking and analyzing international audiences for the Global Integrity Report; -Researching global communication strategies and contributing to the Global Integrity Report 2011 launch; -Writing and…
With the launch of the Open Government Partnership barely two weeks behind us, we started to look over the country commitments announced by the eight steering committee governments. A challenge that we quickly confronted: how to “compare” the various commitments, which varied greatly in their substance, style, and format. To help provide some raw data…
Al Kags posted a really thoughtful analysis of why focusing on quick hit tech projects in the context of open government should be a priority for those engaged in the open government movement. The same day I read Al Kags’ piece, I stumbled across another useful post from the always-smart Matt Andrews at Harvard, who…
Our friends at the World Bank are looking for some help with their Public Accountability Mechanisms (PAM) initiative. (In the interest of full disclosure, the World Bank has funded some of Global Integrity’s projects.) The World Bank’s Public Accountability Mechanisms (PAM) Initiative aims at creating a set of actionable indicators to monitor transparency and…
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