Version en español » “Civil servants really do an amazing job, they have difficult tasks to do. This agenda, open government, transparency, often meets a lot of resistance and it is difficult to overcome obstacles within administration. So bringing people together…
Originally posted on Veronica Cretu’s blog. Whenever there is a conversation about public administration reform, open government or citizen engagement I can’t ‘pass by’ :)! I guess this is the kind of passion one has for life, as once you…
Spurred by recent electoral results, the BBC published an article asking whether these mark the end of liberal democracy. There are troubling signs of closing civic space and rise of authoritarianism. Civicus reports that in 2015, there were violations of…
International Anticorruption Conference, Panama It is a great honor and pleasure to participate in the International Anticorruption Conference (IACC) in Panama. At this IACC, we face an ever more pressing imperative for action and impact. From the US to Brexit…
What got you personally involved in open government? What in your background inspired you to work in this field? I guess there is no one single answer to this, rather, there are different experiences, stories, hopes and dreams that have…
The International Budget Partnership (IBP) recently released a fresh set of data with important updates on budget transparency practices in 102 countries. The update is particularly relevant to the Open Government Partnership (OGP) community because it covers 50 OGP countries.…
This piece originally appeared on the Open Government Institute website. I live few hundreds kilometers away from Kiev, Ukraine and this country is indeed close to my heart from different perspectives and various reasons! It is always a great pleasure…
We, the undersigned organisations and campaigners working on freedom of information issues, are concerned by news that the World Bank has significantly downgraded its capacity to pursue a global right to information agenda at a time when the World Bank’s…
The OGP Steering Committee will be meeting in Cape Town on 3-4 May. The agenda and papers for that meeting have been published here. Among other discussions there are a couple of decisions that need to be made on who the new co-chairs…
One of the most important events of the year that is going to take place under the auspices of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) is the upcoming annual Summit in Mexico in October 2015. OGP is gaining more momentum with…
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