Members of CoST Panama give their views on the country's membership to CoST. Leah C. Estrada Interim Country Manager, CoST Panama Public procurement is the most recognised high-risk area for corruption in government; large-scale infrastructure projects are especially vulnerable to corruption, mismanagement, and political exploitation. It is a chronic problem worldwide. Many businesses are heedless
Last month, leaders of the G20 gathered in Hangzhou, China, for its eleventh annual meeting and a Communiqué has since been released. As the first ever G20 summit to be hosted in China and only the second Asian host country, China drew upon its status as a developing nation to bring the themes of development
In advance of the International Open Data Conference (IODC) 2016 in Madrid, Spain, CoST highlights the need for a greater focus on sector-specific application of open data. The international Open Data Charter provided a breakthrough moment for aligning data standards, as highlighted in a previous IODC blogpost. Specifically, Principle 4 includes a commitment to “engage
Written by Eleanor Morgan, CoST Communications Manager, this blog was originally published by Open Government Partnership (OGP) here. We all need better value infrastructure. From the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to the World Bank Group, it is generally estimated that USD$3.7 trillion global infrastructure investment is needed annually yet only around US$2.7
World leaders gathered in London this week to commit to increased action against corruption. We inevitably viewed the proceedings through the lens of our own priorities and there was much that we welcome. The Communiqué acknowledged for example that construction is “particularly vulnerable to corruption” and as part of the solution, participating countries committed themselves
CoST is the open contracting initiative for public infrastructure. We will be attending the Tackling Corruption Together conference on 11 May 2016, which precedes the UK Government’s Anti-Corruption Summit on 12 May 2016. CoST works to tackle corruption in public infrastructure investments through transparency and accountability and we want our work to become redundant. Our
