Latest in Tag: Transparency Highlight
Latest in Tag: Transparency

State-owned companies offering to improve transparency, governance: public enterprise minister
Government has no intention to sell or dispose of those companies

Parliamentary election results manipulated in favour of son of powerful figure: lawyer
Court verdict to annul MPâs membership still not executed in favour of rival candidate

Egypt moves towards real estate transparency
Egypt ranks 65th in JLLâs Global Real Estate Transparency Index

Supply Ministry tops corruption cases in state institutions: PFORT report
76 cases of corruption reported in March, says Partners for Transparency

Are parliamentary elections transparent despite violations?
Court revokes electionsâ results in several constituencies

85 ministerial corruption incidents in September: PFT
40 of the cases monitored are pending investigations by administrative prosecution, according to report

Egypt hikes 3 points in Open Budget Index
Egypt scores 16 in 2015 index and 13 in 2012 index

Corruption report highlights widespread vice in government institutions
Senior state executives too weak and too involved to fight corruption: PFT Director

EIPR launches new campaign on social, economic justice in public spending
Absence of budget transparency directly leads to absence of social justice, says NGO

Making fast progress toward democracy is difficult: Dutch Ambassador
There may be a will to move toward democracy, but the tools available to the country’s leadership date from another era, says Dutch Ambassador to Egypt Gerard Steeghs

Overseas corporate corruption still a major problem
Cross-border corporate bribery is still a largely unresolved issue, Transparency International has concluded in a fresh report. Germany, it said, was among only few nations actively combating corruption. Transparency International (TI) said Thursday that about half of the 41 signatories to the OECD anti-bribery convention had been doing “little or nothing” to fight growing levels …

Absence of parliament threatens transparency of state budget: Report
Except for the Muslim Brotherhood parliament, state passed all budgets since revolution, says PFT
ANHRI demands transparency on American analystâs deportation
Former diplomat was due to speak at Egyptian Council of Foreign Affairs conference, but was denied entry at airport

Mubarak verdict sparks angry reactions
Students vow to protest on campus; parties to sue Mubarak

Promoting Transparency: Unleashing growth across the board
By Omar Khedr There appears to be no limit to the possibilities that come from combining the internet, social media, and ground-breaking innovations to achieve significant changes across the globe. It is a movement that is restructuring government institutions, revolutionising how news is delivered, and forging entire new commercial industries. Eager to capitalise on this …
Federation of Egyptian Industries chambers reject monetary donations to âBillion EGP Initiativeâ
Economy in need of industrial projects â donation initiatives are just âa media showâ, say chamber heads

No clear answers from fact-finding committee for post-30 June violence: NGOs
Presidential decree mandates that the committee cannot publish its findings to the public

EU Foreign Ministers discuss cooperation with Egypt in governance
EU foreign affairs chief presents report on recent visit to Egypt and expresses hope for the future

Investigations must be public: rights organisation
ANHRI demands transparency regarding trials of judges and former prosecutor general

US leads government demands for Twitter user data
Governments submitted a total of 1,157 requests for information about Twitter accounts, with 78 percent of those queries coming from the United States

The media talks to ghosts
On Thursday 4 July, state owned news agency MENA and several international agencies, reported that the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, was arrested along with his deputy Khairat El-Shater. We published the news. On Friday 5 July, Badie was giving a speech from the Rabaa Al-Adaweya sit-in where thousands of his supporters …

Information, not democracy, is necessary for a strong economy
How democratic last weekâs events in Egypt were will continue to be debated. Democratic or not, this is an excellent opportunity to set the economy in a better direction. Information will be critical for improving the economy. It will also give credibility to these events as being part of a democratic process. Democracy is not …

Courthouses and prosecution offices enter digital age
Spokesperson for public prosecution admits previous way of hiring was not transparent

Presidency âsurprisedâ by allegations of withholding information
Morsiâs office denies withholding information and asserts media transparency

Qandil launches weekly Q&A
Qandil will answer questions from the public âhonestly and transparentlyâ on a weekly basis

Morsi sets meeting to discuss transparent elections guarantees
Invites 29 political parties and 20 political figures to explore election systems

Post-revolution Egypt still seen as corrupt
Embattled judiciary holds key to reform