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Fiscal Transparency (is Not Enough)

by David Sasaki | Apr 13, 2012 | English, Open Government, Work

OpenSpending.org has simple goal that is extraordinarily difficult to achieve: wherever you may live, you enter in how much you earn per month, press a button, and poof, a stunning visualization of where your tax money goes. Let’s say I’m a British...

[Report] Parliamentary Power to the People

by David Sasaki | Mar 29, 2012 | English, Open Government, Work

Brazil-based transparency and freedom of information scholar Greg Michener has authored the first major report on the use of online platforms to understand and monitor parliaments in Latin America. Commissioned by the Open Society Foundations, “Parliamentary...

Transparently Advocating for Transparency

by David Sasaki | Mar 21, 2012 | English, Open Government, Work

Update: I have removed the “within 15 days of the signing of a grants agreement” from the commitment. For a variety of reasons it may not be possible to publish the related information so soon after the agreement has been signed. At times, such as in the...

Conference-Slutting Toward Good Governance

by David Sasaki | Jan 28, 2012 | English, Open Government, Work

2012 looks a lot like a convenient excuse for the Latin American diplomatic jet set to rack up their American Express rewards points while in Cartagena, Brasilia, Puerto Vallarta, Los Cabos, Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere. Looking through a less cynical filter, 2012...