From an email announcement sent by Suzanne J.
Piotrowski:
The 1st
Global Conference on Transparency Research takes place at Rutgers
University-Newark on May 19-20, 2011. The deadline for
proposals is November 30th, 2010. Information on the
conference and the Call for Papers is
provided here: http://tinyurl.com/2vr6uro.
Conference Program
Announcements
Professor Christopher
Hood, the
Gladstone Professor of Government and Fellow of All Souls College Oxford,
is the
conference keynote speaker. The keynote speech is sponsored by Governance:
An International Journal of Policy, Administration and
Institutions.
Marco
Daglio, Head of the Public Service Delivery Unit, Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development will present an overview of the OECD’s Open
Government Project.
Martin Tisné, Program
Manager of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, will present an
assessment of which areas of inquiry related to transparency and accountability
deserve increased scholarly attention. The Transparency and Accountability
Initiative is a donor collaborative that includes the Ford Foundation, Hivos,
the International Budget Partnership, the Omidyar Network, the Open Society
Institute, the Revenue Watch Institute, and the William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation.
Travel
assistance
Conference organizers
will provide hotel accommodations and on-site meals for all individuals
presenting papers. A limited number of travel bursaries are available and
supported by Canada's International
Development Research Centre, the Open Society Institute’s Right To Information
Fund, and the World Bank Institute. Information on travel funding is available
on the conference webpage.
For more details
contact:
Professor Suzanne J.
Piotrowski
Conference
Chairperson
School of Public Affairs
and Administration
Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey
