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10 organizations meet in Tirana on the Perspective of Open Contracting Standards in the Regio

01/09/2016 in , , /by

Open Data against abuse and corruption using public money. Ten regional organizations met in Tirana on 28-29 July at a workshop organized by AIS: Civil Monitoring of Public Procurement. The participants analyzed how transparent the data from different phases of public contracting are and presented some CSO initiatives for citizens’ monitoring of public procurement in Albania, BiH, Kosovo, Macedonia, […]

AIS starts the new program “Transparency with the Public Health Sector Procurements”.

18/08/2016 in , /by

AIS started to work in July on disclosing procurement data from the Health Sector. The newest project on Public Health Sector Procurements will enable the creation, promotion, and use of a well-structured database, which serves as an instrument (tool) for transparency, information, citizens’ monitoring about procurement processes of the Public Health Sector for 2016. Fact-based […]

Control of the Conflict of Interest leads to opening data about assets declared by high level officials of the Bank of Albania

12/08/2016 in , /by

As part of our Money Government and Politics (MGP)Project, data on assets declared by high officials of the Bank of Albania are published under the Money and Power section.Such declarations shed light on property and economic interests of high officials, who have the authority to take decisions about bank policies, which are so significant for the country. […]

Public Health Sector Procurements

12/07/2016 in , , /by

The Public Health Sector Procurements Project has enabled the creation, promotion, and use of a well-structured database, which serves as an instrument (tool) for transparency, information, citizens’ monitoring about procurement processes of the Public Health Sector for 2016. The database contains well-structured data, updated in real time[1] and filters for ensuring user friendly information. It […]

Roundtables – Promotion of Transparency over Local Government Budgets

25/06/2016 in , , /by

The USAID Planning and Local Governance Project (PLGP) in cooperation with the Albanian Institute of Science (AIS) have designed and finalized a platform with several ICT instruments for transparency over the budgets and expenditures of the local government units. During November 2015 – March 2016, work was focused on programing and implementing Money Mapping and […]

TransparencyCamp finally in Europe, something Albania could not miss

05/06/2016 in , /by

An important unconference took place for the first time in Europe on June 1st, the Transparency Camp Europe. The event took place in Amsterdam in the context of the Netherlands EU Presidency 2016. The participants in this TCampEU included representatives from the civil society in Albania, who became part of European experiences on open data, […]