A Call for More Transparency Among International Aid Groups, Plus More: Monday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
May 24, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- International aid and development organizations may advocate that governments be more accountable about their spending, but the charities themselves are far from transparent, Till Bruckner, a former employee of Transparency International Georgia, writes on Aid Watch.
- Minnesota Open Idea is “an example of an online social-good contest that works,” the social-media expert Beth Kanter writes on Beth’s Blog. The effort’s first contest garnered more than 400 ideas on how to fight childhood obesity. The submissions went through two rounds of judging before the final three ideas were put to a public vote.
- International charities are seeing the largest number of new donors in Asian countries with growing economies, such as India, writes James Lamont, the South Asia bureau chief for the Financial Times, on Beyondbrics, the newspaper’s blog about emerging markets.
