Student funding processes must be opened up to public scrutiny and participation if they’re to succeed.
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Kenya’s university budgets are a closed book – and this lack of transparency is bad for institutions and the country as a whole.
TV cameras will be coming to a court near you.
Publishing the data on the differences between salaries for men and women will only be half the battle.
Meta-analyses that combine many different studies are the gold standard for medical evidence. But they are only as good research they examine.
A legal wall protects private prisons from operational scrutiny.
In a year and a half the Abbott government managed, in practice, to undo the painstaking reforms of the federal Freedom of Information (FOI) system.
Researchers from around the globe tried to replicate 100 published psychology studies. They were successful on only 36.
It’s a problem when much of what winds up in scientific journals isn’t replicable, for various reasons. The research community is taking baby steps toward addressing the “reproducibility crisis.”
The role of money in politics challenges rich and poor countries worldwide. Its abuse raises problems of graft, corruption and cronyism, undermining legitimacy and governance.
Groups in charge of the NHS budget for your care should be open, but more often than not it’s hard to tell how your where the money is going.
A Deal or No Deal-inspired experiment shows people act with excessive caution when they’re in the limelight.
‘Better Communities’ funding is supposedly non-partisan: every electorate gets $300,000 for local projects. But only incumbent MPs have a say in this spending and 60% of them are government members.
The idea of the right to know as the ‘lifeblood of democracy’ is a surprisingly modern development. And in an age when transparency is prized, privacy and secrecy can still be justified in many cases.
The open data movement is gaining momentum but we need to reflect on our priorities and values in order to make further progress.
There is an emerging push for greater transparency in the industry about how films are funded and the profits they return. But can sharing information can help a financially risky industry into the black?
The distinction between the global and the local is collapsing under the pressure of climate change, economic restructuring, global migration and jihadism on the one hand and the populist and information…
The Accountability Round Table (ART), a non-partisan organisation, wrote to the three major political parties two months ago seeking their position on three important arms of Victoria’s integrity system…
Despite the adoption of a third two-year G20 Anti-Corruption Action Plan, corruption received only a few lines in the latest G20 leaders’ communique. The credibility of the G20 as a whole now rests on…
It’s a far-from-perfect instrument of global governance. But as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) coalition celebrates its 12th birthday, it can point to steadily increasing membership…
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