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Illicit financial flows from Africa: ‘Progress is small, small’

By: Blair Glencorse, Executive Director of the Accountability Lab and the IBA’s Innovation Fellow 2017. This article was originally published by the International Bar Association. The huge illicit financial flows from Liberia that are undermining its development reflect the wider problems that persist across Africa. Illegal transactions are, in some ways, easier than ever, but there are promising developments at corporate, government and international levels. 'Pay your taxes to develop Mama Liberia,’ says a Ministry of Finance billboard on one of Monrovia’s main thoroughfares, referring colloquially to the West African country. As we drove past recently – dodging potholes on the [...]

2021-03-16T18:21:25+00:0017th April 2017|

Accountability Lab Ends “Rap to be Repped” Talent Hunt Competition with Live Music Concert Music

By:Gbatemah Senah. This article was originally published by The Bush Chicken. Hundreds of young people gathered at the Sports Commission on Friday to witness live performances of Liberia’s best young emerging new artists. Five finalists of “Rap to be Repped,” a nationwide musical talent hunt competition organized by the Accountability Lab, thrilled the crowd as they performed. Laurene Kolleh, the only female competitor among the finalists was announced the winner after receiving the highest points from votes by text messages and a three-member panel of judges. Onesimus Whoryonwon finished as first runner-up, followed by Alfred Flomo as second runner-up, while [...]

2017-04-03T00:00:00+00:003rd April 2017|

Accountability Lab Celebrated Open Data Day Mapping Migration in Nepal

This blog was originally published by the Open Knowledge International Blog and is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2017. On Saturday 4 March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data. 44 events received additional support through the Open Knowledge International mini-grants scheme, funded by SPARC, the Open Contracting Program of Hivos, Article 19, Hewlett Foundation and the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office. This event was supported through the mini-grants scheme under the Human Rights theme. Saturday is a holiday across the country of [...]

2020-03-03T17:35:04+00:001st April 2017|

Five Social Purpose Leaders Announced as Finalists for the 2017 Alumni Award

This article was originally published by LeaderStories. During this year’s American Express Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit, Atlas Corps and American Express will honor one alumni with the 2017 American Express Leadership Academy Alumni Award. This award was created to recognize an Academy Alumni who has continuously demonstrated strong leadership and who has had a significant impact on their organization and the sector. The award will be announced at the Alumni Summit in April 2017, and will include a $25,000 grant to their organization. Meet the five finalists – each an effective and innovative leader in his or her own [...]

2017-03-28T00:00:00+00:0028th March 2017|

Accountability Lab Wins the SXSW Community Service Award!

We were honored to be a winner of the SXSW Community Service Award last week in Austin, Texas. Executive Director Blair Glencorse received the award from Hugh Forrest, Director of the SXSW festival in front of several hundred social entrepreneurs, artists, film-makers, journalists and other members of the SXSW Community. At the event, Blair dedicated the award to the Accountability Lab's teams around the world and the incredible people within our community who we support to build accountability in their communities: "This work is more important now than it has ever been" he said: "It fills me with great pride [...]

2017-03-17T00:00:00+00:0017th March 2017|

The global development lowdown at SXSW

By Catherine Cheney. This article by originally published by Devex. South by Southwest is an annual festival that takes place in mid-March in Austin, Texas. Photo by: Patrick / CC BY-NC Every year, professionals across sectors gather in Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest, a “destination for discovery” for music, film and technology. “South by Southwest, in our best moments, is about using technology, using creativity, using innovation to help people out who need help, to help level the playing field between the haves and have nots,” Hugh Forrest, chief programming officer for SXSW, said at the Community Service Awards Monday. [...]

2017-03-15T00:00:00+00:0015th March 2017|

Why we have to reimagine education to fight corruption

Image: REUTERS/Michaela Rehle By: Blair Glencorse, Executive Director of Accountability Lab, and Vasilis Koulolias, Director, of eGovlab at the University of Stockholm. This article was originally published by the World Economic Forum. Traditional approaches to fighting corruption tend to focus on rules, compliance and enforcement. Regulations are passed and organizations are formed to root out graft. These efforts may provide part of the solution, but are often hamstrung or ineffective in places where opacity and patronage are ingrained, and where there is a gap between legal frameworks and everyday behaviors. To truly build systems and societies with integrity we need to rethink [...]

2017-03-10T00:00:00+00:0010th March 2017|

Pakistan celebrates its first Integrity Idol

In a corrupt country, the public vote for the most upstanding bureaucrat By: This article was originally published by Apolitical. There is no glitter or pop music, but Integrity Idol aims to do much more than choose a hit new boyband. The international competition puts on TV shows to find the most upstanding officials in countries with endemic corruption – Nepal, Pakistan, Liberia and Afghanistan among them – and hold them up as role models to encourage the rest. Run by the NGO Accountability Lab, it began in Nepal (read Apolitical’s interview with the first ever idol here) and has [...]

2017-03-09T00:00:00+00:009th March 2017|

‘Integrity Idol’ winner vows to use prize to train health workers in post-Ebola Liberia

Reporting by James Giahyue; Editing by Katy Migiro and Astrid Zweynert. This article was originally published by Thomson Reuters Foundation. The winner of Integrity Idol, a Liberian reality TV show, plans to use his prize money to train health workers as the country is still reeling from the world's worst Ebola outbreak. Pharmacist Bocakarie Sakilla beat 1,000 other contestants to win a $2,000 prize, presented to him by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. "I see it as a victory, especially for our pharmacist profession," Sakilla told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "In Liberia, pharmacists are not known, they are always at the back... [...]

2017-02-06T00:00:00+00:006th February 2017|

Accountability Lab Named Liberia Civil Society Organization of the Year

We are thrilled to announce that Accountability Lab Liberia was chosen as the Civil Society Organization of the Year at the 2017 Liberia Development Awards. The awards ceremony, which took place on January 31, 2017, was organized by the development community in Liberia in conjunction with the first-ever Liberia Development Conference. With this recognition, we hope to set an example of transparency, innovation, and cooperation within the development community. Speaking during the program, the United States Ambassador to Liberia, Christine Elder, lauded the honorees for living lives that provide compelling narratives about Liberia’s development potential and encouraged all Liberians to follow in [...]

2017-02-01T00:00:00+00:001st February 2017|
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