Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Global procurement survey / Indonesia (anti)corruption recap / Beneficial ownership tech

Global survey highlights challenges and opportunities for public procurement during the Covid-19 pandemic (Blog).  “Some initial findings on the challenges and reform opportunities for public procurement during the Covid-19 pandemic include: Countries most affected by Covid-19 adopted a larger percentage of critical and risky procedures for emergency public procurement.”

Serena Cocciolo, Vincenzo di Maro, and Sushmita Samaddar/World Bank: https://blogs.worldbank.org/governance/global-survey-highlights-challenges-and-opportunities-public-procurement-during-covid-19

 

75 years on, Indonesia grapples with entrenched corruption.  “Corruption remains an intractable issue to resolve in Indonesia 75 years after the country became independent…Recent pollsters also said that Indonesians were growing more permissive toward petty corruption, a trend experts fear could motivate major acts of corruption.”

Galih Gumelar/The Jakarta Post: https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/08/17/75-years-on-indonesia-grapples-with-entrenched-corruption.html  

 

Open Ownership’s first technology showcase (Blog/Video).  “The showcase [of technology working with beneficial ownership data] also demonstrated…how interconnected open data, government digital transformation, and non-governmental innovation are in solving transparency and corruption problems.”

Steve Day/Open Ownership: https://www.openownership.org/blogs/first-tech-showcase/

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