Home > dgCommunities  > Public Sector Transparenc... >

Search by Keywords: Advanced Search Sign-up here! Subscription is free and allows you to receive email newsletters, alerts, and to access a comprehensive member directory and network with other development professionals. Sign-up here About this Report This Special Report provides a multi-sectoral perspective about public sector transparency. Participating in this Special Report are our online communities focused on: Afghanistan Reconstruction Aid Effectiveness Business Environment Civic Engagement Culture E-Government Environment Foreign Direct Investment Gender Governance HIV/AIDS Indigenous Issues Information and Communication Technologies Iraq: Relief and Recovery Knowledge Economy Non-Governmental Organizations Poverty Trade Urban Development Water Resources Management Youth for Development     Our next Special Report "Aid Harmonization: What Will It Take to Meet the MDGs?" coming in July 2005. Become a Development Gateway member, and you will be notified of our upcoming reports. Sign-up! See previous Special Reports here Special The requested resource (/editor/default/) is not availableReport The requested resource (/editor/default/) is not available Contributors The Development Gateway Foundation would like to thank the eighteen people whose interviews have contributed to this Special Report on “Public Sector Transparency: What Works?” Representing sixteen countries from all regions of the world, the insights of this distinguished group provides first-hand knowledge about the complexity—and importance of—public sector transparency in establishing good governance in the developing world. Muslehuddin Ahmed Muslehuddin Ahmed is founding chairman of Civic Watch-Bangladesh and the Foundation for Education and Development. He is the founding president of North South University, the first private university in Bangladesh. He represented Bangladesh at UNCTAD and GATT, and served as a principal spokesman for Least Developed Countries at UNCTAD in 1975-1979. Eduardo Bohórquez Since 1999, Eduardo Bohórquez has been director of Transparencia Mexicana, Mexico’s chapter of Transparency International. He has also been Executive Director of Fundación Este País, A.C. since 2001, an organization that specializes in applied research and strategic communication. J. Chavda .J. Chavda has been Secretary of Front Against Corrupt Elements in Tanzania since 1994. FACEIT is an NGO dedicated to researching core problems in Africa and in Tanzania. A consulting engineer, he is co-founder of Design Partnership Ltd, a for-profit civil engineering firm that oversees major bridge, roadworks, water supply and sewerage projects in Tanzania. Steven Clift Steven Clift is an online strategist and public speaker focused on the use of the Internet in democracy, governance, and community. In the U.S., he has been named by Politics Online as among “The 25 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics.” He is chairman of the board of the non-profit organization Minnesota E-Democracy which in 1994 created the world's first election-oriented web site and online candidate debates. Londa Esadze Londa Esadze, coordinator of Georgia’s TraCCC Money Laundering Programme, is chair of the South Caucasian regional chapter of the GOPAC (Global Organization of Parliamentarians against Corruption) and co-chair of the GOPAC working committee on the UN Convention against Corruption. Wijayananda Jayaweera Wijayananda Jayaweera is Director of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) at UNESCO. Based in Paris, France, he is a native of Sri Lanka where he had a 20 year career at the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. He served as Training Director for the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development, conducting courses in training methodology and community radio in Iran, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea. He was Head of the UNESCO office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 1999 to 2002, before being transferred to New Delhi where he continued to serve as Regional Adviser for Communication and Information in Asia. Rhoda Kadalie Rhoda Kadalie is formerly a commissioner on South Africa’s Human Rights Commission and the director of the District Six land claims unit for the Commission on the Restitution of Land Rights. She is now executive director of South Africa’s Impumelelo Innovations Award Trust, an NGO that rewards innovative government and civil society initiatives that improve social service delivery in the eradication of poverty. In 2003, she received the human rights award from the South African organisation Women for Women. She is a columnist for Business Day and was a lecturer in anthropology and founder of the gender equity unit at the University of the Western Cape. Daniel Kaufmann Daniel Kaufmann is Director of Global Programs at the World Bank Institute (WBI). A native of Chile, he was formerly Senior Manager of the Governance, Finance and Regulatory Reform Group at WBI. Kaufmann has published widely on academic and policy issues, pioneering new empirical and survey methodologies with colleagues at the World Bank and in academics. Previously he held positions as Lead Economist in the World Bank’s Development Economics Group, and as Chief of Mission of the Bank in Ukraine in the early-to-mid 1990s. Vincent Kihiyo Vincent Kihiyo works in Tanzania’s Prevention of Corruption Bureau (PCB), a semi-autonomous governmental institution, which is entrusted to combat corruption in Tanzania Mainland. It is a department under the supervision of the President’s Office Ronald MacLean-Abaroa Ronald MacLean-Abaroa was the first democratically elected mayor of La Paz, Bolivia, and was reelected four times between 1985-1991. He has held five national cabinet positions including planning, foreign affairs, information and communications, finance, and sustained development, under three different presidents. He was the presidential candidate of Bolivia’s governing party, in the last general election of 2002, before joining the World Bank as the Lead Public Sector Management Specialist on Governance, Decentralization, and Poverty Reduction. He is the author of several articles, professional papers, case studies, and books. He coauthored with Robert Klitgaard and Linsey Parris “Corrupt Cities: A Practical Guide to Cure and Prevention” (2000) that has been published in five languages. Ramadhan S. Mlinga Ramadhan S. Mlinga is Executive Secretary of the Central Tender Board of the government of Tanzania. Thomas Riley Thomas Riley is co-founder and executive director of Canada’s Commonwealth Centre for Electronic Governance, an NGO that has published a study entitled “Living and Working in the Connected World”. He is also the author of “Electronic Governance and Electronic Democracy: Living and Working in the Wired World” (Commonwealth Secretariat, London). Geir Sundet Geir Sundet is an independent consultant working at REPOA (Research on Poverty Alleviation), a Tanzanian research organization, on a project funded by USAID Africa Bureau’s Anti-Corruption Initiative. The project includes working on the Tanzania Governance Noticeboard (TzGN), a new initiative that employs a combination of IT and community based approaches to strengthen accountability and public oversight of official financial affairs at the local and national levels. He holds a doctorate from Oxford University and was previously a Governance Specialist with UNDP in Tanzania. Jerzy Szeremeta Jerzy Szeremeta is the Chief of the Knowledge Management Branch in the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. His work focuses on development of useful ideas and tools for UN Member States, including policy advice, in the area of e-government deployment and transition to knowledge society. He is the author of the World Public Sector Report 2003: “E-Government at the Crossroads”. He was a member of the UNDP team that supported production of the Arab Human Development Report “Creating Opportunities for Future Generations” (2002). Before joining the United Nations, he worked in the diplomatic service of Poland (1969-1984), with assignments in Tokyo, Japan and at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. He has a doctorate in international economic relations (Warsaw University, 1977). Codru Vrabie Codru Vrabie is Executive Director of the Romanian Chapter of Transparency International. His current overall job is to contribute in developing integrity policies for public administration, including legal assessment of the current state of access to information and general anti-fraud/anti-corruption policies in Romania. Mr. Vrabie is (co-)author of numerous publications on politics and law topics, he delivers training courses for civil servants on the enforcement of the laws on free access to information and transparency of decision-making in public administration, and he is affiliated with a number of reputed NGOs active in the humanitarian, social, and cultural fields. His key skills/interests include advocacy techniques, political psychology, public speaking, strategic planning and management, and legal analysis. Harris Whitback-Piñol Harris Whitback-Piñol is Commissioner for State Reform, Decentralization and Civic Participation for Guatemala as well as president of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Public Administration. He worked on proposals for governmental modernization in 2002 and as a member of the Commission of Electronic Government in 2003. He is also co-founder of Fundación Berthol, an NGO that promotes indigenous health, and co-founder of the non-profit organization Help for the Neighbors of the Altiplano Program (PAVA). He holds an engineering degree from the Auburn University, Alabama. Raymond Khoury Raymond Khoury is the Director of the Technical Cooperation Unit (TCU) and Senior ICT Strategy Advisor for the government of Lebanon’s Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform (OMSAR). In this capacity, he has helped develop a blueprint for the execution of ICT projects that support Lebanon’s institutional reform efforts underway in the public sector with funding provided by international donors. This blueprint was recently enhanced to form a Lebanese e-Government Strategy that is currently awaiting approval by the Council of Ministers. Formerly, he was senior technology advisor for the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the auspices of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass. Kaleil Isaza Tuzman Kaleil Isaza Tuzman is the co-founder and CEO of govWorks, a leading e-government software firm. As one of the first entrepreneurs to enter the e-Government arena. Kaleil raised $60 million for govWorks in venture financing from the Mayfield Fund, KKR, the New York City Investment Fund, The Hearst Corporation and others. Previous to founding govWorks in the late 1990s, Kaleil spent five years with Goldman Sachs, where he was responsible for a proprietary investment portfolio in Latin America and other emerging market securities. He speaks widely on entrepreneurship and the topic of technology and its impact on governance and civil society, and has been a presenter to the President of the United States on e-government and related subjects. He regularly appears on CNN, CNBC, and other major media outlets, and he is a member of the editorial board of American Venture Magazine. The requested resource (/editor/default/) is not available Email this page Sign-up From Our Members How did Development Gateway members respond to our Public Sector Transparency Survey questions? How best can developing countries achieve public sector transparency? Does civil society involvement always lead to better outcomes? Who bears the cost of implementing e-government solutions? Is this cost always justified? In Numbers How does global transparency measure up? Charts and graphs on how transparency measures up. Click here. Development Gateway: Promoting Transparency Global Events Events around the world provide a diverse approach to reach the same goal--lowering barriers and raising interests in public sector transparency.  1. Aid Effectiveness and Transparency, OECD Paris High-Level Forum, February 18-March 2, 2005: Aid Harmonization Elements Transparency and Procurement Practices 2. 6th Global Forum on Reinventing Government: Toward Participatory and Transparent Governance, May 24-27, 2005 3. Making Democratic Government Work: Connecting Principle and Practice, April 12-14, 2005, Ash Institute, Harvard University 4. The Third International Conference of Information Commissioners: Transparency and Access to Public Information, February 20-23, 2005, Cancun, Mexico: Agenda Central Issues Relevant Data Partners

Terms & Conditions | Privacy | Editorial | Copyright Notice | Make this Your Home Page