Indonesia infrastructure transparency portal / Pegasus survellaince scandal / Thailand market research approach

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CoST West Lombok launches programme with brand new infrastructure data portal.  “As the programme launched, CoST [the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative in West Lombok, Indonesia] was also able to unveil a brand-new infrastructure data portal called INTRAS. CoST West Lombok applied for CoST membership with a plan to build on practices of data-disclosure already embedded in the regency, by developing a data portal based on SISOCS on which data is disclosed according to the Open Contracting for Infrastructure Data Standard.”

CoST – the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative: https://infrastructuretransparency.org/news/cost-west-lombok-launches-with-brand-new-infrastructure-data-portal/

 

Lessons from the Pegasus Project: Reforming Surveillance Through Open Gov (Blog).  “[A] global investigation uncovered how mobile phones of journalists, activists, and opposition leaders across the world were targets of illegal surveillance by at least eleven governments…Governments targeted journalists who were critical of their policies and were investigating systemic corruption. For instance, among those targeted were those who uncovered the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal (1MDB)”

Tonusree Basu/Open Government Partnership: https://www.opengovpartnership.org/stories/lessons-from-the-pegasus-project-reforming-surveillance-through-open-gov/  

 

A Market Research Approach to Encouraging Citizen Participation in Anticorruption (Blog).  “A team at Chulalongkorn University [in Thailand] recently undertook a research project to examine the factors that increase public participation in anticorruption efforts, so as to develop a more effective communication strategy to promote public participation…The study employed a concept used in marketing research called “segmentation,” which seeks to identify latent classes of people—sorted by various characteristics and indicators—who will be more responsive to particular kinds of messaging.”

Torplus Yomnak, Jake Pattaratanakul, Apichart Kanarattanavong, Thanee Chaiwat, and Charoen Sutuktis/The Global Anticorruption Blog: https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2021/07/13/guest-post-a-market-research-approach-to-encouraging-citizen-participation-in-anticorruption/ 

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