Have the rules changed? A brief look on what has happened since the 13th IACC

4 November 2010 in Anti-corruption movement, Technology

Crossposting from the Accountability2.0 blog, a blog started at the 13th International Anti-Corruption Conference looking at how social media has changed how we are fighting corruption. Are citizens changing the rule of the game? This year, the International Anti-Corruption Conference has not only a session, but a whole stream focussing on a wide range of […]

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Securing sustainable development outcomes through good governance and transparency

26 October 2010 in Africa and Middle East, Measurement and Research, Poverty and development

Read more about transparency and aid below: Haiti: Two years after the earthquake, corruption dogs reconstruction efforts Publish What You Fund: Are Aid Donors Walking their Own Talk? International Aid Transparency Initiative: As the world debates aid, the US puts its aid money out into the public To illustrate how public sector corruption impacts on […]

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Reporting on corruption, at a price

26 October 2010 in Measurement and Research

To illustrate how public sector corruption impacts on different issues, such as development and freedom of expression, we asked our friends at other organisations to let us know how public sector corruption affecting the areas that they work on. We hope you’ll join in the discussions on the multi-dimensional effects of corruption and, most importantly, […]

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Taking the temperature: Corruption Perceptions Index 2010

26 October 2010 in Measurement and Research

Read about the Corruption Perceptions Index 2011 here. For regional perspectives on the CPI 2011 results see here: Europe and Central Asia Americas Sub-Saharan Africa Asia Pacific Middle East and North Africa For a blog post defining public sector corruption click here and to read about our CPI Iphone App see here. The world continues […]

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A look at those exposing corruption

25 October 2010 in Human rights, Politics and government

Nizar Manek, who volunteered in our Conventions Programme at Transparency International this summer, wrote this piece for the Guardian Comment is Free blog entitled Internationalising the public interest highlighting the need for international media to not forget the campaigners who pay a high price for exposing corruption in the developing world. Nizar points out: International […]

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Calling all researchers of corruption

12 October 2010 in Measurement and Research

Today more and more students and academics are studying the causes and impact of corruption. But have you ever wondered where you can find out about the latest and best in corruption research from all disciplines and regions of the world? Have you written something you think your peers would be interested to read? Launched […]

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Blog, tweet and film the 14th IACC

11 October 2010 in Asia Pacific

Are you a journalist or a professional blogger? Are you young – and we actually have a broad definition of young here? Are you working in an Asian country? Then it would be great to have you join me to form a small team of journalists and bloggers that will cover the 14th International Anti-Corruption […]

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Participatory Video

Handing the camera to the people

7 October 2010 in Africa and Middle East, Poverty and development

As part of the Poverty and Corruption in Africa programme, Alfred Bridi supported a training on Participatory Video in Uganda. Here’s what he writes about his experience: As a member of the Poverty and Corruption in Africa programme, I was recently able to join six of our African National Chapters at a training on Participatory […]

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Nobody lobbies the EU Council!

6 October 2010 in European Union

It’s out, it’s official: The EU will revamp its lobby registers in the next 12-18 months, merging the Commission’s and Parliament’s registers into one common register. The new register will also get a new name: the “Transparency Register“, a re-branding for those groups (e.g. religious groups, think tanks etc.) that don’t want to be called […]

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Enforcing foreign bribery: notes on some of the key issues (part 2)

4 October 2010 in Anti-corruption Conventions, Europe and Central Asia, Private sector

Gillian Dell, Programme Manager for Transparency International’s programme on international anti-corruption conventions joined the International Bar Association  conference on foreign bribery enforcemen in Prague from 20-22 September. Here’s the second part of what she learnt: Considerable attention was given to the new UK Bribery Act. That’s the UK law that introduces strict liability for companies […]

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