This post was written by Ana Brandusescu, Research and Policy Officer at the Web Foundation. Public contracting isn’t a topic people really talk about. It rarely makes headlines — but it’s important and it is exciting once you break it down. It’s on the roads we drive, in the schools we take our kids to, in […]
Exploring Ways to Improve Public Procurement Data Disclosure in Jakarta
The Asian Development Bank’s assessment of public sector management in Indonesia in 2015 reported that the country’s core problem is “insufficient delivery of, and inequitable access to basic public services at the local level”. One of the identified causes for this are the lack of transparency and accountability in public procurement. For a country, whose […]