Accountability: Why Batman needs to supervise Superman
Accountability is one of the core values of open government. To help readers better understand this concept, Towards Transparency created a short video: “Why Batman needs to supervise Superman“. This video was produced by Towards Transparency, in collaboration with Tớ đố cậu biết as a part of the…
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…
Open Government Partnership (OGP)’s principles will help Vietnam to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Hanoi, 18 February 2019. Towards Transparency (TT), the National Contact of Transparency International (TI) in Vietnam launched the research report “Open Government Partnership (OGP) can contribute to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Vietnam”. The workshop was co-chaired by Mrs. Nguyen Thi Kieu Vien, Executive Director of Towards…
Concerns abound over special zone’s autonomy: National Assembly
The latest revision of the draft law for special administrative and economic zones absorbed feedback and made changes to several items including planning and organisation of the special zone’s government, according to lawmakers. Most National Assembly deputies agreed the revision was a positive step during yesterday’s meeting to…
Challenges to Vietnam in participating in and complying with OGP’s principles and possibility of overcoming
The article below here includes expert ideas and additional analyses on challenges to Vietnam from participation in and compliance with OGP’s principles. The content is extracted from the Study on the Prospect of Vietnam’s Participation in the Open Government Partnership Initiative (OGP) which was conducted by Vietnam OGP…
IFC to assist in building smart city
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) will help HCM City build a smart city plan IFC vice president for Asia and Pacific Nena Stoiljkovic said this to municipal People’s Committee Vice Chairman Lê Thanh Liêm on April 12. At the meeting in the southern economic hub of Việt Nam,…
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…
Corruption better controlled: report
The fight against corruption was a rare highlight of the Government’s efforts to improve public administration, as citizens in more than half of the country believed corruption was better controlled in 2017, a report found on Wednesday. According to the 2017 Việt Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration…
Cyber law balances security, information freedom
Dr Mai Liêm Trực, former deputy minister of Post and Communications, talks to the newspaper Nông thôn ngày nay (Countryside Today) about the need to finalise the draft Law on Cyber Security The draft Law on Cyber Security has been revised 14 times, but there are still outstanding…