The world has just witnessed ‘charismatic’ populist politicians successfully tap a pool of discontent by promising easy fixes to complex issues to sometimes desperate people. The first outcome was Brexit, the second the victory of Donald Trump. The…

Ce blog a été publié à l’origine sur le site internet du World Resources Institute (WRI, Institut des Ressources Mondiales), et est reproduit ici avec leur permission. De nombreux pays ont pris des engagements nationaux dans le cadre des Accords…

Transparency is only a small part of achieving accountability. Information becomes powerful once it is accessed, discussed and used to influence leaders.Amid the fevered discussion of the influence of online media in recent months you might be tempted to write…

Este blog se publicó originalmente en el sitio web de World Resources Institute; lo compartimos aquí con permiso de esta organización. Como parte del Acuerdo de París sobre cambio climático, los países establecieron diversos compromisos a nivel nacional. Sin embargo,…

This blog is a part of a series of posts on the importance of information integrity. Click here to read the introductory post. On 11th November 2016, Matthew Kirschenbaum tweeted: Safe to assume that the @realDonaldTrump????? account will now be…

This blog is a part of a series of posts on the importance of information integrity. Click here to read the introductory post.The previous post in this series looked at capturing and publishing data with metadata, but government data is…

This blog is a part of a series of posts on the importance of information integrity. Click here to read the introductory post. Data becomes more powerful when it has context. When we can say that data was transmitted by…

This blog originally appeared on the World Resources Institute website, and is shared here with WRI’s permission. Countries made many national climate commitments as part of the Paris Agreement on climate change, which entered into force earlier this month. Now…

1. Information IntegrityAhead of Nigeria’s 2011 election, the West African Non-Government Organisation Network reported troubling inaccuracies in the list of the nation’s polling stations. While preparing a digital map of voting locations, it discovered that as many as 28,000 polling…

International Anticorruption Conference, Panama It is a great honor and pleasure to participate in the International Anticorruption Conference (IACC) in Panama.  At this IACC, we face an ever more pressing imperative for action and impact.  From the US to Brexit…

Politics has often been the obstacle to greater transparency in Nepal. But the country’s open government movement took an important step forward last month, when twelve leading accountability and transparency groups gathered in the new OpenGov Hub Kathmandu- a resource…

This post originally appeared on the Natural Resource Governance Institute blog. For years, Tunisia’s extractives sector was viewed with skepticism. Information on reserves, the rights allocation, resource revenues and their management was particularly scarce. But during the last two years,…