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CiteIADB: All That Glitters May Not Be Gold
The international community has hailed the past five years as exceptionally good economic times for Latin America. In this report the...
Speaker: Boris Weber, Team Leader, ICT4Gov and Voices Against Corruption, World Bank Institute
Presider: Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy and Director, Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative, Council on Foreign Relations
June 6, 2012
CFR Senior Fellow Isobel Coleman speaks with Boris Weber, director of ICT4Gov at the World Bank Institute, on how technology is being leveraged to promote good governance and increased transparency in fragile states and emerging markets.
This was a meeting of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Roundtable series.
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