Last week the Support Unit released the Open Government Partnership activity calendars for all participating countries. The calendars clearly present dates and deadlines for key activities in the OGP process, such as National Action Plan (NAP) drafting, implementation, and assessment.…
A significant benefit to joining OGP is being connected with a network of allies with valuable experiences in working toward a common objective of a more open government. In advance of the OGP High-Level Event at the United Nations on…
Open Government is very likely to be democracy’s next milestone. Should you care about open government? Possibly, because it guarantees transparency and accountability. But not in my opinion. In 2014 this passive role for the citizens is not enough. The most…
open book.jpg This article originally appeared on the World Bank Blog and hase been republished with permission from the author. I recently relocated my family from Chisanau to The Hague, leading to the difficult experience of trying to find the…
ARCHIVAL – For Historical Reference For the past several months, the OGP’s Independent Reporting Mechanism has been seeking applications for IRM National Researchers in all OGP-participating countries. These independent experts author the IRM progress reports monitoring implementation of…
There are a busy few months coming up for many countries participating in the Open Government Partnership. New two-year National Action Plans are currently being drawn up in two batches of countries – the Cohort 2 countries that joined OGP…
OGP guide.jpg Photo Credit: By The Cabinet Office “OGP Annual Summit London 2013″ via Flickr. As the Annual Summit of the Open Government Partnership was getting closer and closer, the call for organizing local events or the so-called “remote hubs” in…
Last week we published a headline list of commitments that countries made at the London OGP Summit. Some of these commitments are new open government reforms that will be part of OGP action plans being developed over the coming months,…
Cross posted with the permission of the author from blog.openingparliament.org Just a few months ago, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) announced the creation of the Legislative Openness Working Group (LOWG), one of five new thematic working groups to be launched in 2013. Since…
Ireland.jpg We caught up with Denis Parfenov and Martin Wallace, two of the lead initiators of the campaign for Ireland to join the OGP. We asked them to share their reflections on the experience to date, and to share lessons,…
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