Workshop: Open Government, Transparency and Citizen Participation
On October 15-16, 2020, Towards Transparency (TT) – national contact of Transparency International (TI) in Vietnam organized the “Open Government, Transparency and Citizen Participation” workshop. The workshop attracted the participation of representatives from many civil society organizations, media, academia, and members of the Open Government Partnership Working Group…
Vietnam reaches minimum standards to join OGP
Vietnam’s improvement in the 2019 Open Budget Survey (OBS) has helped it gain the maximum score for Fiscal Transparency – one of the core eligibility criteria of Open Government Partnership (OGP), which is globally the most prominent multilateral initiative to endorse open government by promoting information transparency, citizen…
Vietnam’s North-South high-speed railway to cost over US$58 billion
For a total length of 1,545 kilometers (km), the line which links Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City would stop at 20 cities and provinces. Total investment capital for the North-South high-speed railway project in Vietnam is expected to reach over US$58 billion, according to a consortium of…
Cybersecurity law targets criminals: NA deputies
The controversial cybersecurity law was passed by the National Assembly (NA) on June 12 with 86.86 per cent approval. On the sidelines, NA deputies talk to An Ninh Thủ Đô (Capital Security) newspaper on how the bill won’t harm Constitution-mandated civil rights or initiate mass surveillance. The subjects of the…
OGP Global Summit 2018: Tbilisi
As lead co-chair of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), Georgia will host the 5th OGP Global Summit in Tbilisi, Georgia, on July 17-19, 2018. Representatives from OGP’s 90 national and local participants — heads of state and governments, ministers, public servants, members of parliament, local authorities, civil society…
Embracing Innovation in Government: Global Trends 2018 report
On 11 February 2018, OECD Secretary-General Ángel Gurría launched Embracing Innovation in Government: Global Trends 2018 at the World Government Summit in Dubai. The report was authored by the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI), in partnership with the UAE’s Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Government Innovation…
Vietnam commended on fight against corruption
Vietnam’s intensified crackdown on corruption has yielded applause twice from the international community in just the past month. The main hall of Daewoo Hotel in Hanoi today was packed with over a thousand government officials, representatives from international organisations, experts, and local and foreign journalists. They came just…
Việt Nam’s corruption perceptions index improves
Việt Nam ranks 107th among 180 countries and territories in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2017 released by Transparency International on Thursday, a slight improvement from the two previous years. The country scored of 35 points out of 100 on the CPI 2017. The country scored 31 in…
Limitation in open budget index
Việt Nam is ranked under the global average in the open budget index, especially in terms of public participation. That’s according to the report of Open Budget Survey composed and published by International Budget Partnership (IBP) on Thursday. Việt Nam’s budget transparency (Open Budget Index – OBI) scored…
State audit to inspect BOT traffic projects
Several BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) traffic projects will be on 2018’s audit list, the State Audit Office of Việt Nam (SAV) announced yesterday. Examining a series of BOT traffic projects was among the State Auditor General Hồ Đức Phớc’s audit plan for next year that SAV issued recently. Specifically, the…