Transparency & Accountability
When those in power fail to act in the interest of citizens, that can slow growth and put the poor and marginalized at greater disadvantage. Can open data and innovative monitoring techniques create incentives to improve service delivery and provide good governance?
When those in power fail to act in the interest of citizens, that can slow growth and put the poor and marginalized at greater disadvantage. Can open data and innovative monitoring techniques create incentives to improve service delivery and provide good governance?
Highlights
News, events, and insights from our policy-research engagements on using open data and innovative monitoring to improve service delivery for citizens.
New research from EPoD studies dishonesty and the pull toward government jobs in India.
Over time, economic growth reduces both the incentives for government officials to extract bribes and firms’ willingness to pay them.
An approach implemented in Jakarta showed promise until the government, failing to examine evidence, suspended it.
Projects
A collaboration with the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board opens up data on emissions to the public
When citizens are informed, how do electoral and policy outcomes change?