Omidyar Network Awards $2.4 Million to Global Integrity

The Omidyar Network has announced a $2.4 million grant to Global Integrity, a Washington, D.C-based nonprofit working to bring greater transparency to government activities worldwide.

The grant will enable Global Integrity to accelerate its work on two critical fronts: developing the next generation of its online global fieldwork platform and launching Foglamp, a research service for investment clients in emerging and frontier markets. By scaling up its online platform, Global Integrity will help citizens, researchers, and journalists in more than a hundred countries looking to gather data, analysis, and on-the-ground reporting of government accountability and transparency issues.

The Foglamp site will give users access to on-the-ground information about investment-specific regulatory and market dynamics at the country, sector, and company levels. In so doing, Global Integrity hopes the site will help influence private capital flows as a way to stimulate policy reforms in those countries.

"Global Integrity's anti-corruption efforts ignite positive social change for millions of citizens worldwide," said Stacy Donohue, investments director at the Omidyar Network. "Omidyar Network shares Global Integrity's passion for driving government accountability through information transparency. We hope our grant will signal the importance of their work."

“Global Integrity Scales With $2.4 Million Grant From Omidyar Network.” Omidyar Network Press Release 11/03/09.

Primary Subject: International Affairs/Development
Secondary Subject(s): Journalism/Media

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