Examining new data from the Money, Politics and Transparency project, Sunlight discovered South Asian countries fared poorly when it comes to having transparent and effective political finance practices.
Continue readingSnap Shot India: All that glitters is not gold – The curious case of money and politics in India
How much does it cost to win a seat in India? Well, that depends on who you are.
Continue readingComplete financial opacity in record-breaking Indian elections
In the world's second most expensive election process, India faces serious issues as its opaque political finance regime leaves over 800 million voters in the dark about who is funding the campaigns.
Continue readingFive opengov takeaways from the Coalition Against Corruption Conference
Last month, a few Sunlighters headed to Bangalore for the Coalition Against Corruption Conference. It's impossible to fully summarize all we learned much about the challenges facing reformers around the globe, but five themes stuck out.
Continue readingHow the Indian rail website accidentally stops bribery
Sunlight's in India for the Coalition Against Corruption Summit, but one of the most interesting ideas about corruption came to us as we tried to book train tickets.
Continue readingIndia’s FOI Anniversary Spurs Political Finance Transparency
The eighth anniversary of India’s freedom of information law, the Right to Information Act (RTI), could become an important milestone in the country’s transparency agenda. The 2005 sunshine law has already made a tremendous impact on how Indian decision makers respond to public scrutiny efforts, and this year has seen a heated public debate around the finances of political parties with the anniversary creating momentum to rethink (and maybe even redesign) the country's current political finance transparency landscape.
Continue readingGuess who’s coming to TCamp13: countdown to TCamp edition
“Guess Who’s Coming to TCamp” is a mini-series we started last year to introduce some of the faces you'll see at TransparencyCamp. We're now in the homestretch before TCamp 2013, and are highlighting some more international guests and TransparencyCamp scholars joining us in Washington, DC on May 4 and 5.
For the last two years, we invited a number of advocates, journalists, policy makers, developers and others from all over the world to join us for TCamp and a series of informal meetings in the days before TransparencyCamp. This year, we opened up the process for participants outside the U.S. and invited people to join us through an online application process. We had an overwhelming response to the program with over 400 applicants. Thanks to our generous funders, we will welcome 23 people from a wide range of countries. Here`s our map:
Last week we brought you Oluseun Onigbinde from Nigeria, Juha Yrjola from Finland and Pamela Mutale Kapekele from Zambia. Today we'll learn a little bit about Fabrizio Alfredo Scrollini Mendez from the UK (via South America), Amira Khalil from Egypt, Bibhusan Bista from Nepal, Thejesh Gangaiah Nagarathna from India, and Vadym Hudyma from Ukraine.
Continue reading“Global Open Gov: What’s The Secret Sauce?” (Part 2)
In this second in a three-part series, guest blogger Matt Rosenberg continues to reflect on the Open Government Partnership Egypt,... View Article
Continue readingBuilding a Better Partnership for Open Government: Right Here
President Obama recently attended an Expo on Democracy and Open Government on his trip to India and announced the creation... View Article
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