The team working at AIS organization, a promoter of Open Data Albania, is setting up a database called Transparent Procurement, which will contain well-structured data about public procurement procedures conducted at Local Government (Municipality) level. Monitoring of procurement procedures of local governments coincides with an interest to directly monitor proceedings related to services and public works, which have impacts on citizens’ daily life. On the…
Nepotism, Media reports that such phenomenon affects 70% of Senior Officials
Various reports on the employment of family members, spouses and children of MPs and high officials have recently been published in the media. The articles shed light on nepotism, preferential hiring and lack of meritocracy. The details published in said media reports have been extracted from datasets and documents published in the data base created by AIS Money and Power. This database oofers oppen access…