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‘Governance Matters’: A new blog on governance at the World Bank
By Kaufmann | May 26, 2008
With the just launched ‘Governance Matters’ blog, the World Bank has now fully joined the governance blogosphere. The idea was afoot for many months. There was initial pushback by a few higher ups. But support from many quarters and persistence prevailed, helped by the growing recognition of the importance of blogging in today’s world. And this personal blog I have hosted for a few short months in this space also helped in getting the Bank blog finally going. You, the reader and blogger, also get some credit. The new blog’s name ’Governance Matters’ was suggested by a blog expert at the Bank, perhaps influenced by the series of empirically-based reports with that title we started a decade ago…
I was asked to host this new ‘Governance Matters’ blog at the World Bank. But it will be a collective endeavour, with guest bloggers and many contributors. Not only there will be blog entries from various bloggers in the institutional Bank blog, but there will also be more focus on materials drawn from governance work at the World Bank itself (and other donor agencies) than in this personal blog space of mine (even if some of my own blog entries may be cross-posted or cross-linked).
In this ongoing personal blog I will also continue to have entries of a more personal naature, including some on music and art (or on governance fun, or entries like Obama vs. Clinton story, as well as others on governance), which will not be in the Bank’s institutional blog.
The World Bank is running a feature web story on this, which can be seen here. It is generating quite a bit of internal debate and commentary in the internal Bank website. The aim is to try to continue a tradition of ’straight talk’ and make that work in the institutional World Bank blog, as in this one. Let us see.
All are welcome to join the Governance Matters space as well.
Topics: Aid Effectiveness, Corruption, Measurement Frontiers, Public Financial Management, Public-Private Linkages, Rule of Law, Transparency, Voice and Human Rights | |