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OPENING DATA FOR A MORE TRANSPARENT SOCIETY – AIS is represented for the sixth year at Political Accountability and New Technologies Conference, POINT 7.0, Sarajevo.

23/05/2018 in , /by

It is now a tradition for AIS to participate in POINT Conference (Political Accountability and New Technologies). POINT is a regional conference that takes place in Sarajevo and welcomes NGOs from several countries of the Eastern Europe, that promote open technology and open data. Two representatives from AIS, Besjana Hysa and Viola Civici in their […]

Money and Power, assets of members of the Council of Ministers declared for 2017

10/05/2018 in , , /by

Monitoring assets, influence, and economic interests is a process that increases the integrity of high-level public officials. The Money and Power Section under the Spending Data Albania portal enables the public to learn about asset declaration. Such data are not yet accessible through official databases. Considering public monitoring equally important to institutional monitoring, AIS published […]

Hearing session With the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee for Electoral Reform The Assembly of the Republic of Albania

03/05/2018 in , , /by

Albanian Institute of Science (AIS) is a non-Governmental organization advocating for transparency, good governance, and accountability. The organization is recognized as a promoter of open and transparent data (Open Data Albania). In addition to having published electoral spending and incomes using an open data format, AIS, through its Money Government and Politics and Za’Lart programs […]

RedFlag – Number of tenders identified as problematic goes up to 10% of the total

28/04/2018 in , , , /by

Ten per cent of the public tenders and public procurement processes carried out by municipalities in the country from July 2015 are marked as potentially involving incompliance with legal procedures, corrupt practices, unequal competition, or clientelism. Such evaluation is made by using an automatic scanning system based on an algorithm that identifies suspicious cases of […]

On the implementation of the Project: Monitoring Conflict of Interest of Donors for the 2017 Electoral Campaign

28/04/2018 in , , , /by

In the framework of its Monitoring Conflict of Interest of Donors for the 2017 Electoral Campaign Project, AIS has identified the donors of the electoral contestants for the 2017 general elections. Identification was made taking into consideration their economic interests, benefits from public procurement, and incomes from payments received from the state budget (treasury transactions). […]

Online publication soon to come. International expert ‘wanted’ to assist with overcoming the challenge of public oversight of asset declarations

25/04/2018 in , , , /by

Following amendments to Law “On the declaration and control of assets and financial obligations of some elected officials and civil servants”, (Law No. 42/2017), Albania is expected to see a very important reforming moment in the process of high officials’ asset declaration and control. This law enables the public to access such declarations online. AIS […]

Learn about state-owned companies through Open Corporates Albania

20/04/2018 in , , , /by

The Open Corporates Albania portal has updated its information on 220 state-owned (public) business companies in April. These companies are owned by municipalities and ministries. The information provided by the portal through an individual passport for each company includes the name of the owner, its legal form, equity, scope of activity, turnover of the company […]

Workshop with High State Audit officials on Data Usability and Red Flags Algorithm: Instruments for Transparency and Anti-Corruption

30/03/2018 in , /by

Within the framework of the “Transparency in Health Engagement Project” funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and implemented by University Research Company, LLC (URC), a two 2-day workshop was delivered by Project partner Albanian Institute of Science (AIS) for the staff of the Albanian Supreme Audit Institution (ALSAI) on Data Usability and […]