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Transparency International's transparency index measures each country in the world on corruption. See how they compare by clicking on each country. Use the dropdown menu to see how scores have changed since 2008

ThinkData est un service interactif de sensibilisation à la protection des données et à la transparence dans le cadre organisationnel. Issu d'une réflexion menée par un groupe de travail interdisciplinaire, dans le cadre d'un laboratoire d'idées sur la science des services et l'innovation (ThinkServices http://www.thinkservices.ch/ ), ThinkData permet de se familiariser avec les concepts de protection des données et de transparence au travers d'histoires courtes, mettant en situation des employés, des cadres, des responsables des ressources humaines et des systèmes d'information. Les questions traitées concernent par exemple la biométrie, la gestion du courriel, la géolocalisation, la vidéosurveillance, le vol des données, etc. Sous chaque scénario, se trouvent les principes de base qui s'appliquent, des recommandations, ainsi que des exemples réels et diverses ressources illustrant les cas.

In 2008, police forces across the United Kingdom (UK) launched an online crime mapping tool "to help improve the credibility and confidence that the public had in police-recorded crime levels, address perceptions of crime, promote community engagement and empowerment, and support greater public service transparency and accountability." How effective has this large scale digital mapping effort been? "There continues to be a lack of evidence that publishing crime statistics using crime mapping actually supports improvements in community engagement and empowerment." This blog post evaluates the project's impact by summarizing the findings from a recent peer-reviewed study entitled: "Engagement, Empowerment and Transparency: Publishing Crime Statistics using Online Crime Mapping." Insights from this study have important implications for crisis mapping projects.

Un site Web publiera l'état d'avancement des projets du gouvernement Fabien Deglise   3 mai 2012  Québec Plus de transparence par le numérique. Québec a annoncé hier la mise en place, dès juin prochain, d'un espace en ligne visant à informer les citoyens, en temps réel, des détails et surtout de l'état d'avancement, ou pas, des projets du gouvernement.

This book is the culmination of several years of thinking about the principles behind the open government data movement in the United States. In the pages within, I frame the movement as the application of Big Data to civics. Topics include principles, uses for transparency and civic engagement, a brief legal history, data quality, civic hacking, and paradoxes in transparency.

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has pledged to increase transparency and turn citizens into decision makers by using the latest online tools and embracing a new culture of openness. In Wednesday's release of a long-awaited report into how to bring open governance to Quebec - billed as "historic" by advocates of open governance - the government said that by next month, it will launch a web portal that will make public data easily accessible. Another website, to be created later, will gather public opinion on how the government is run.

Le ministre délégué aux relations avec le Parlement a accusé, samedi 25 août, les sites de suivi de la vie parlementaire, et notamment le site internet NosDéputés.fr, de dégrader la qualité du travail législatif "dans des proportions considérables" au nom, juge-t-il, d'une lecture trop absolue du "principe de transparence".

This week, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman launched NYOpenGovernment.com, a new website that his office touts as a means for "voters, the media and government watchdogs hold state government accountable" by providing the public online access to government data on campaign contributions, lobbying, and state contracts. "Secrecy breeds corruption, while transparency generates confidence," Attorney General Schneiderman said, in a prepared statement. "New York Open Government will help the public keep an eye on what their government is doing in order to deter corruption and increase confidence in the public sector. This site is a one-stop-shop for New Yorkers demanding up-to-date and comprehensive information about their government."

Watch out! Internet connections worldwide may have been slower past weekend! Last weekend hundreds of hackers, programmers, designers and anti-corruption experts and activists in Bogotá, Budapest, Casablanca, Jakarta, Moscow and Vilnius gathered last weekend to develop new ICT tools that can help citizens monitor government and report corruption. Websites like ipaidabribe.com in India and use of twitter in events like the Arab Spring have shown that technology can be a powerful vehicle for people power. Hacks Against Corruption (HAC) is Transparency International's first attempt to bring together technology and anti-corruption specialists to use technology to come up with some of the challenges we face in fighting corruption: visualising the cost of corruption, monitoring complex, massive public budgets and allowing citizens to safely report corruption in their life.

In 2001, when the World Economic Forum first published  The Global Information and Technology Report (GITR),  the dot-com bubble had just burst; there were fewer than  20 million mobile phone users in all of Africa; and Apple  Inc.'s product line was confined to Macintosh computers.  That Report presented an optimistic view of the future,  highlighting the transformational potential of information  and communication technologies (ICT) in advancing the  progress of global society and business. In the decade  that followed, Booz & Company has witnessed firsthand  the realization of that potential in its work with clients and  communities worldwide and through its long-standing  involvement with the GITR. Today there are more than  500 million mobile phone subscribers in Africa, and  Apple is the world's largest company in market capitalization, producing iPhones, iPods, and iPads along with  Mac computers. Despite the strides the sector has made  since the technology bust in 2001, however, we believe  we are only just beginning to feel the impact of digitization-the mass adoption by consumers, businesses, and  governments of smart and connected ICT. Success in the digitization world-where competitors from Shenzhen to Schengen can emerge seemingly  overnight-requires policymakers and business leaders  to go back to the drawing board to identify and build  "right-to-win" capabilities in their spheres of influence.  Digitization is more than a matter of access. Our recent  research shows that digitization multiplies the impact of  connectivity, creating substantial incremental value in  terms not only of job creation and economic growth, but  also of societal well-being and government transparency.  Today, more than 70 percent of the world's citizens live in  societies that have just begun their digitization journeys.  As the individuals and enterprises in these societies  continue to progress in developing their own digitiza

The Internet significantly affects OECD economies at different levels and in numerous different / impact areas. In particular the Internet impacts firms in various sectors, individuals and governments. It / also has some observable general macro-economic effects. /  At the firm level, the restructuring of business models in association with use of the Internet has / led to improved efficiencies./ 1/  The impact of the Internet can also be seen in the rapid growth of new firms / founding their businesses on the Internet. The Internet's enhanced communication capabilities are affecting / nearly all sectors of the economy in ways that may be as subtle as making previously hard-to-find data / available online or as profound as transforming an entire market such as is occurring with music, video, / software, books and news.  /  The Internet is reshaping the way individuals live. It brings benefits of higher consumer welfare / (through a larger variety of digital goods and services, lower prices, improved information gathering, more / distribution channels and so forth). In addition, individuals benefit from a more efficient labour market/ 2/ and, on a broader level, from positive impacts on the environment/ 3/  and in education. /  For governments, Internet development enables better communication with citizens, industry and / other organisations. The Internet has also helped governments run more efficiently via improved / information sharing, increased transparency and the automation of various resource-intensive services.  /  The impacts of the Internet on the individual, firm and government level can be also observed at / the aggregated, macroeconomic scale. Existing empirical studies, including ongoing OECD work, suggest / a positive link between increasing Internet adoption and use and economic growth. Even though the / aggregated effects are still preliminary, the relationship between Internet development and economic / growth, as well as microeconomic ev

In many countries across the world, discussions, policies and developments are actively emerging around open access to government data. It is believed that opening up government data to citizens is critical for enforcing transparency and accountability within the government. Open data is also seen as holding the potential to bring about greater citizens' participation, empowering citizens to ask questions of their governments via not only the data that is made openly available but also through the interpretations that different stakeholders make of the open data. Besides advocacy for open data on grounds of democracy, it is also argued that opening government data can have significant economic potential, generating new industries and innovations.

Les nouvelles technologies : révolution culturelle et cognitive « Les nouvelles technologies nous ont condamnés à devenir intelligents ! ». C'est ce que postule Michel Serres... Visionner la vidéo - Durée : 1 h 04 min. Écouter la conférence en MP3. Le 11 décembre 2007, à l'occasion des 40 ans de l'INRIA, Michel Serres a donné une conférence sur la révolution culturelle et cognitive engendrée par les nouvelles technologies. Le célèbre académicien y explicite comment la révolution informatique change notre rapport au monde. Tout comme avant elle, l'écriture, puis l'imprimerie, ont profondément transformé nos modes de vie. Une conséquence inévitable de toute révolution. Le philosophe donne rapidement le ton et invite son auditoire à prendre conscience de la révolution cognitive générée par la révolution de l'information. Pour lui, les nouvelles technologies ont poussé l'homme à externaliser sa mémoire. Il nous faudra donc être inventifs, intelligents, transparents pour être des acteurs de cette nouvelle période de l'Histoire.

Rufus Pollock, co-founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation, was interviewed at the Open Government Partnership conference (OGP) in Brasilia, Brazil in April 2012. In the video embedded above, Pollock talks about his involvement with OGP and how civil society will be involved in holding government accountable. He also explains what open data means to him, including a definition and how it relates to traditional open government goals of transparency and accountability. Pollock recommends the Open Data Handbook as a resource to learn more and put data to work in the service of better government.

 Two recent announcements from Canada prompt my mood this morning: Canada Joins International Open Government Partnership Conservative Cuts put half of Statscan jobs at risk A government can simultaneously be the most secretive, controlling Canadian government in recent memory and be welcomed into the club of "open government". The announcements highlight a few problems with the "open data movement" (Wikipedia page): It's not a movement, at least in any reasonable political or cultural sense of the word, It's doing nothing for transparency and accountability in government, It's co-opting the language of progressive change in pursuit of what turns out to be a small-government-focused subsidy for industry. In short, the open data movement is a joke. Those who are on the political left who lend their support to it have some hard decisions to make.

While I was thinking about this post, I have seen Tom Slee's one titled "Why the Open Data Movement is a Joke", which has raised some discussion and understandable outrage in the open government circles. Tom's argument starts from underlying an inherent conflict between the Canadian government's decision to join the Open Government Partnerships (see my earlier post) and some of its behaviors. Then he postulated that the Open Data Movement is more focused on formats, digitally-accessible data sets, free access to postal codes, and so on than it is focused on actual government transparency around issues that matter. It's a movement that has had no impact on government accountability

A report calling for more government transparency and citizen participation through the use of technology made 32 recommendations to make Quebec an open administration. Here are selected highlights.

Open government initiatives are either aimed at providing greater transparency, usually as a reaction to an accusation or perception of excessive secrecy, or at engaging citizens in specific problem solution as well as service delivery. It is probably fair to say that the US federal initiatives are closer to the former, while UK initiatives are closer to the latter. In both cases, though, there is a fundamental lack of confidence - or blatant distrust - in the government workforce. This is rooted in a mixture of reality and perception: laziness, risk aversion, self-preservation, lack of incentives, low salaries, a culture of job security, and so forth, do not contribute to creating a pretty picture of government employees. In countries that are struggling with their finances and economy, civil servants are seen as a cost to be reduced in order to recover resources that should help reignite the economy. At the same time many agree that the retirement or dismissal of experienced government workers may make the situation even worse in areas where government services will be in greater demand going forward (think about education, social care, health care, public safety).