I interviewed Olga Shiyan as part of my Interview Series. In it, she discusses her anti-corruption work in Kazakhstan with Transparency International. In particular, she highlights various projects that have integrated anthropology with data science and statistics.
Olga Shiyan is the Executive Director of the Transparency International’s chapter in Kazakhstan. She specializes in advocacy, legislation and draft laws, and democratic training programs. For this, she has developed research methods that combine anthropology and data science and statistics. In 2019, the Kazakhstan Geographic Society awarder for a medal for anti-corruption work.
To learn more about Olga, feel free to check out the following:
1. Monitoring the state of corruption in Kazakhstan for 2020, presentation
2. Presentation of the research in the media, speaking on a TV show, talk TV show
3. Monitoring the state of corruption in Kazakhstan for 2019
4. The index of civic participation and influence on lawmaking in Kazakhstan
5. 13 stories about lawmaking in Kazakhstan
6. Development of local self-government in Kazakhstan: analysis of fourth-level budgets
7. Ethno-confessional monitoring. Kazakhstan. 2018.
8. Customs corruption in Kazakhstan: mirror analysis of trade
9. Opportunities for Civil Control in Kazakhstan: Experience of Ethnological Research
10. The thorny path of labor migrants to Russia: the experience of participant observation
12. Anthropological approach in the interdisciplinary study of the phenomenon of corruption
13. Summer anti-corruption school of Transparency Kazakhstan
14. Transparency Kazakhstan School of Investigative Journalism
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