Parliamentary documents is a project by Sinar Project to make Malaysian parliamentary documents on-line. The current focus is to scan and publish on-line digital searchable documents that have previously not been made accessible to the public.
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Malaysian Parliament Official Youtube channels provides live telecast of parliamentary proceedings and video archives
Cartelogy joins up procurement data, company profile data and political persons data to create a “red flag” mechanism/tool to analyse, evaluate, and detect potentially suspicious activities from the outset so that respective decision makers (as well as oversight committees and relevant authorities) will be better equipped to make informed procurement evaluation and contract award decisions (see system architecture below).
There is certainly a strong case for CoST to help expand and increase existing transparency requirements in Malaysia but questions remain about the appetite for open government. There are examples of transparency efforts emerging at various levels which provide encouragement. For example, the states of Selangor and Penang have introduced access to information laws in their respective states and some public institutions also provide information on a voluntary basis. Oversight is facilitated by the Auditor General, whose annual report is, at present, the most reliable and most extensive source of information on infrastructure projects, CoST can help capitalise on these initiatives and strengthen the overall framework to increase compliance with legal requirements as a minimum.
Building an Open Database on Politically Exposed Persons in Malaysia: A Case Study
This project sought to improve the planning and delivery of public health and education infrastructure by developing a data-driven tool for identifying optimal locations for schools and hospitals.
A brief study and report on Penang State Government's FOI law
Browse the Legislative Openess Data Explorer see the state of openness of Malaysia's Parliament
A public facility for searchable archive of important Malaysian government documents such as annual reports, speeches and forms that are no longer available online at respective websites or as soft copies
Khazanah Research Institute article on how Covid-19 is both a public health and an economic crisis and why now more than ever, we need open data.
A flagship publication that can serve as a core reference work and stimulus for open data policy-makers, practitioners, and researchers.