“Anything that worse than a lie is a lie that compounds it.” — Raymond Reddington, The Blacklist, Season 6 To be completely honest, I myself contribute to lying at some point, in my life. I am not a saint. However, this post is not about me but about what I…

In August this year, I produced the first episode of OpenHeroines podcast, a new audio experience and experiment. Joining in this first production of the podcast were three fellow Open Heroines members; Paulina Bustos Arellano, Meag Doherty and Alma Rangel Macias. …

Since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia a decade ago, the young state’s developing institutions have been forced to grapple with a host of tough challenges. Youth unemployment currently stands at 57.7% according to UNDP, and mass emigration is feeding an ongoing crisis. Yet in the face of all these difficulties…

The State of Transparency in the United States In May 2013, President Barack Obama announced to the world that his administration had issued an ambitious new Open Data Policy. This new policy was unveiled within a broader executive order that mandated reforms to ensure increased levels of data transparency and public accountability on the part of the government. …

Welcome back to Open & Shut! For this post, we got in touch with Ngeunga Madeleine, a journalist based in Cameroon. …

In November 2016, Small Media launched the Iran Open Data platform — a civil society-developed open data platform that is working to gather, clean, and structure datasets published by the Iranian government, and make them freely available to citizens, journalists, and civil society stakeholders. After a year of intense activity…