Global Corruption Observatory

The project

The Global Corruption Observatory project includes leading anticorruption researchers, combines large-scale micro-level datasets in selected core government areas (government contracts, law making and public subsidies), with emerging Big Data methods and established theories to support anticorruption efforts of a wide stakeholder group.

Running from 2021 to 2024, it is supported by the Open Society University Network (OSUN) and hosted by CEU’s Department of Public Policy.

Objectives

The project aims to be refreshing and innovative in bringing complex datasets and evidence to its audiences, many of whom lack the skills to engage with much needed but complex data-driven problems substantively. The project builds interactive analytical tools while also offering training and workshops in flexible formats to meet diverse stakeholder needs and skills. 

By making large-scale datasets easily available, offering training and novel research, the key objective of the Global Corruption Observatory is to foster a better skilled community willing and able to hold governments accountable. This community’s anticorruption efforts are improved by the Observatory offering reliable and actionable data, evidence, and skills. Our teaching activities enhance students’, civil society activists’ and policy makers’ understanding of anticorruption and improve their hard data skills for effectively pursuing good government.

French team

• Cyril Benoît, CNRS Research Fellow, Sciences Po, CEE

Partners

• Central European University (Austria & Hungary) – Department of Public Policy, Democracy Institute
• Sciences Po (France) – Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics
• University of Los Andes (Colombia) – Alberto Lleras Camargo School of Government
• University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)

Find out more

• Project's website
• Conference (in French) "Analyser, Mesurer, Prévenir : Regards croisés sur la corruption et le favoritisme", Sciences Po, 19 January 2024