From 2014 to the end of 2022 I worked at Global Integrity, including as Executive Director, on open governance, adaptive learning, anti-corruption and the politics of development. The Global Integrity website has since closed; these pieces have been recovered from the Internet Archive.
68 pieces, newest first. A few were only ever published on LinkedIn, and are marked as such.
★ marks a piece included in Selected writing.
Papers
- Recent progress towards open fiscal governance in Latin America, in Nóesis: Review of Social Sciences & Humanities (in Spanish), with Jorge Florez
Blog posts
2022
- Alan’s Open & Adaptive Reads: Systems, Stars and Constellations · 10 October
- Alan’s Open & Adaptive Reads / July 2022: Sandboxes, Stories, Gambles, and Change · 5 July
- Systems and stories: Causality, power and impact · 9 June
- Localisations, power, stories and change ( Adaptive and Open Reads, April 2022) · 4 May
- Corruption, Systems, Power and Learning (March 2022) · 5 April
- Alan’s Open and Adaptive Adventures (February 2022) · 3 February
- Local capacity, power and change: Our feedback on USAID’s draft policy on local capacity development · 26 January
2021
- Alan’s explorations: An evolving map of inspiring connections · 8 November
- Open and Adaptive: October reads · 5 October
- Reporting, transparently – Reflections shared with the Hewlett Foundation · 15 September
- Open and Adaptive: September reads · 8 September
- Beyond transparency, participation and accountability: Feedback on Hewlett Foundation’s evolving TPA strategy · 1 September
- Open and Adaptive: July reads · 1 July
- Map, plan, act, repeat: Strengthening systems through cycles of learning and action · 29 June, LinkedIn
- Living and learning systems — taking the “eco” in ecosystems approaches to governance and accountability seriously · 23 April, LinkedIn
- What’s in a name? Reflections on integrity, relationships and systems · 2 February
2020
- Epidemiology and Beyond: Modeling adaptive responses · 16 July
- Data and Development: Problems, pathways & power. Comments on the World Development Report for 2021 · 14 July
- Outside In: International perspectives on governance challenges in the USA · 1 July
- Silence is Violence: Black Lives Matter · 5 June
- Listening, learning & adapting: A strategy for uncertain times · 20 April
- Adapting to COVID-19: Sharing, learning, and supporting · 30 March
- Sharpening Global Integrity’s strategy: An update & request for feedback · 29 January
2019
- Listening, learning, and adapting: Sharpening Global Integrity’s strategy · 7 October
- Rethinking the politics of development: New evidence to inform our evolution · 5 September
- In focus: Open data, politics, and results · 17 June
- Information, accountability & impact: Luminate’s new Financial Transparency strategy · 20 May
- M/E/L Maps - Supporting journeys to impact! · 2 May
- Transparency: From revolution to evolution · 11 April
- Practical support to address problems, politics and incentives - Annual Report 2018 · 27 February
2018
- More data, less corruption? · 21 December
- Politics, Trumps, Open Data? · 24 September
- Building Bridges: Opening government and solving problems locally · 23 May, LinkedIn
- Opening Up On Fiscal Governance: Our feedback on OSF’s new strategy · 26 March
- 2017: What we did, what difference it made, and what we learned · 14 February
- Open Aid, Open Societies, But Not Much Politics · 7 February
- Open Budgets: Backsliding and the use of budget data · 31 January
2017
- Learning and Power: Or, whose learning and adaptation counts? · 5 December
- Costing Open Government Reforms: What About the Politics? · 9 November
- Recap: How China Escaped the Poverty Trap · 21 September
- Exploring How Data Can Make A Difference: A Call for Collective Action · 6 July
- Bad Governance Close to Home – A global perspective · 18 May
- Listening, Learning and Open Governance: Our Annual Report for 2016 · 6 April
- The White House and the World Development Report · 31 January
2016
- The Costs and Politics of Open Government Interventions · 14 November
- The World Development Report – Our comments on latest overview · 14 September
- Learning by doing: Our action plan for open governance · September
- Politics matters, so what? Time for bigger bets (and more learning) on adaptive programming · 26 July
- The World Bank’s Governance Agenda: Learning to deliver sustainable development results? · 13 July
- Mapping Adaptive Learning Initiatives · 9 June
- ★ Doing Anti-Corruption Differently · 13 May
- Opening Governance: Data, learning and action · 12 April
- Cash on Delivery in Context · 4 April
- The Value of Open Governance: Adaptive learning and development · 21 January
2015
- Try, learn, adapt, repeat: T/A Learn reflections · 16 November
- Learning to open governance · 8 July, LinkedIn
- The Marketplace of Ideas: From “external assessments” to country-level learning · 4 May
- Open Governance and Learning Loops: Iterations for transparency and accountability · 24 March
- Following the Money and Opening Government, Building from the Local! · 12 March
- Governance in Context: Putting principles into practice · 17 February
- Learning, to open governance · 13 January
2014
- Opening governance, doing development differently · 28 October
- Beyond the “Good Governance” mantra · 8 October
- Open Goals · 23 July
- Why the G20 should act on Open Data · 20 June
- Post-2015: What’s the Story? · 16 June
- Measuring Governance: What’s the point? · 3 June
- Opening Government? What does the data say? · 9 May