Risk, transparency and security

Cybercrime: Innovative approaches to an unprecedented challenge

David Tait

Cybercrime represents an unprecedented legislative, law enforcement and policy-making challenge. Countries that do not address it… More…

Cyber security: The threat to governments and business

John Hawes

Hacking and malicious software have become very real and very serious threats to consumers, businesses and governments alike. When this is combined with… More…

Open data and the transparency agenda: New tools to reduce corruption?

Elizabeth David-Barrett

For many years the global anti-corruption movement has promoted transparency as a key tool for reducing corruption around the world, on the assumption that… More…

Ethical standards for providers of public services

Committee on Standards in Public Life, UK (Chair: Lord Paul Bew)

Research into public attitudes towards key issues of public services reform, specifically issues of choice, quality and the use of more providers from outside the public sector, found that… More…

International Approaches to governing ethnic diversity

Jane Boulden and Will Kymlicka

While decisions about the governance of ethnic diversity remain primarily in the hands of national governments, a wide range of international actors often seek to influence those decisions, or to shape… More…

Aid effectiveness and transparency: The case of anti-trafficking

Rebecca Napier-Moore and Mike Dottridge

Lots of people talk about money in anti-trafficking work. The International Labour Organization has tried to estimate the profits related to forced labour, with a figure of US$150 billion a year gaining traction. Others have tried to… More…

Global collaboration on border management

Tony Smith

I decided to join the board of BORDERPOL upon my retirement from public service because I know how important it is for border control agencies to… More…

Water security and services in the Caribbean

Adrian C. Cashman

There is a clear understanding at national and regional levels that insufficient political attention has been paid to ensuring water security in the Caribbean. Furthermore… More…

Risk and resilience: A Commonwealth for the blue economy

Nicholas Watts

The 2015 theme of the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly is ‘Delivering on and Implementing a Transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda’. This will include… More…