Global Integrity Insider Recent months have seen a number of changes at Global Integrity, with Ania Calderon taking over the role of Board Chair, and a new governance subcommittee established, chaired by Erin Sines. We’ve also recruited four new staff members, including our first-ever dedicated communications lead; she’ll probably edit my intro to get…
Kleptocracy – a global phenomenon, with local consequences One of the many benefits of globalization is, depending on people’s access to technology, the possibility to connect with everyone everywhere almost instantaneously. However, the logic of instantaneous connectivity has allowed corrupt governing elites to commit and get away with crimes of baffling magnitude. Kleptocracy, a government…
The transparency and accountability agenda has come a long way from the heady days of 6 or 7 years ago when enthusiasm, including mine, about the revolutionary potential of transparency – and data – reached its peak. At that time, the emphasis was on establishing global norms on the disclosure of information, and encouraging countries…
It’s been just over four years since we launched our new strategy at Global Integrity. That strategy responded to many of the lessons we’d learned from our earlier work on governance assessments, from conversations with our partners in countries and communities across the world, and from our engagement with emerging communities of practice like Doing…
Global Integrity champions open, accountable and effective governance around the world, taking action to inform, connect, and empower civic, private and public reformers seeking more open societies through our innovative research and direct support. We collaborate with local stakeholders, helping to put adaptive learning — a structured, data-driven, problem-focused and iterative approach to learning by…
Over the last 12 months, we’ve taken huge steps forward in our work to support progress toward more open governance in countries and communities around the world. Hot off the virtual press, our Annual Report outlines what we’ve done to implement our strategy and its focus on “Data, Learning and Action for Open Governance”. The…