Great and easy to read background on the work of Open Corporates and why unique ID for companies would be helpful (and how they could be used in practice) – http://t.co/j5QoC3vu

T/AI are seeking feedback on the Opening Government publication, there’s a short survey (5 mins) to fill in here
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEVOLUZMb2IzaGlkQ3NfUWJUMkI2X3c6MQ

O’reilly publication on open government now available in honor of Aaron Swartz: https://github.com/oreillymedia/open_government

Center for Effective Government views on what the second Obama administration should do on open government
http://www.foreffectivegov.org/open-government-gets-second-term

More movement around opening up extractive industry contracts. Increasingly, I think contracts are a ‘silo-buster’, ie you open them up, you help open up a number of sectors (e.g. extractives, infrastructure, land deals etc.)
http://www.contratsminiersguinee.org
http://developmentseed.org/rw-contracts/#documents

More on the silo-busting topic, and why IATI is also relevant for climate finance:
http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2013/01/climate-finance-transparency-show-me-the-money-and-beyond.php

Is there a global anti-corruption movement? Anne Applebaum thinks so (older post, but I’ve been mulling over this with some colleagues, more soon)
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/12/14/anne-applebaum-the-universalism-of-the-anti-corruption-movement/

And last but not least, the release of the 2012 Open Budget Survey,  with a very cool data explorer powered by our friends at the Open Knowledge Foundation http://survey.internationalbudget.org/

On the ‘to read’ list:
Rajkumar, A. and Swaroop, V, “Public Spending on outcomes: Does governance matter?”, Journal of Development Economics, 86 (2008), 96-111