Giorgi Kldiashvili is a founding member and Executive Director of the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI). He has over nine years of experience working on openness and transparency issues in Georgia and internationally. He has been carrying out projects, studies, assessments and trainings for different international organizations and foundations. Giorgi is an author of a number of publications related to access to information, anticorruption policy and good governance, accountability and transparency, e-Governance and e-Democracy, open data, civil service and public administration, media and internet.
In addition to his work in applied policy research with IDFI, as a historian by specialty, he has academic credentials as a researcher, undertaking studies in American and Soviet Studies. He is professional archive researcher, working in the history archives of Georgia and abroad for more than a decade. Giorgi holds graduate degrees in Contemporary History and worked as a professor of American Studies at the Institute of American Studies at Tbilisi State University.
Giorgi previously served as a civil society member of the OGP Steering Committee.
Georgia’s open government reforms have encompassed several transformational activities over the years. Examples include creating and publishing public registries and platforms depicting important public data. Georgia is currently implementing 28 commitments from its 2018-2020 OGP action plan, which includes activities…
Despite being one of the key economic areas for Georgia, extractive industries generally lack sufficient levels of transparency and accountability. The recently published 2019 OGP Global Report demonstrates that improved transparency leads to better economic results, including increased foreign direct…
A pesar de ser un sector económico clave en Georgia, en general, las industrias extractivas no tienen suficiente transparencia y rendición de cuentas. El Informe Global de 2019 que OGP publicó recientemente demuestra que la transparencia genera resultados económicos, mayor…
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development sets ambitious goals and reaching them constitutes a considerable challenge globally. The High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) held in July this year demonstrated that the progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is slow.…
La Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible planteó objetivos muy ambiciosos y su cumplimiento representa un reto importante a nivel global. En el Foro Político de Alto Nivel (FPAN) que se llevó a cabo en julio de este año se…
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