Eastern Partnership

In April 2011, Moldova became one of the rst countries within Eastern Europe to launch an Open Data portal. The portal, www.date.gov.md brings together disparate and disconnected datasets published by various Ministries and central administration of CES, under a single…

The Georgian government agencies have not been very proactive in releasing relevant public information about their decisions and activities. Whenever a citizen, a journalist or a researcher wanted this information, one had to send a Freedom of Information (FOI) request…

President V. F. Yanukovych expressed Ukraine’s intent to join the OGP in September 2011, right after the global initiative was launched. Like other countries in the post-soviet region, Ukraine set great store by joining the OGP; this is an important…

Ukraine has fulfilled only 55 percent of the OGP commitments after a year of the initiative’s implementation in the country – shows the research conducted by a coalition of experts headed by Transparency International Ukraine. A year has passed since…

“Do we really need to come up with actions for the Open Government Action Plan 2014-2015 for our sector or even for our department, within the Ministry? “It is desirable”. “But then, it means we will be responsible for implementing…

This post originally appeared on the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information's (IDFI) OGP Georgia blog and has been republished with permission from the author. The Government of Georgia published an official decree “about the necessary measures for the implementation of the…

The government of the Republic of Moldova embarked on its e-Transformation agenda in 2010. This agenda involves a commitment to implementing Information Communication Technologies (ICT) with the aim of transforming the economy and governance. This will be achieved by driving…

The Open Government Partnership Networking Mechanism is pleased to announce the next Webinar on Asset Disclosures taking place on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST. We hope you can join us. Please see the details below.…

On January 11-12, USAID G-3 Program (Good Governance in Georgia) organized the civil society forum (see the list of participants and the agenda) about Georgia’s participation in Open Government Partnership gathering some 25 representatives of NGO-s and government, as well…

This is the third in our five part series of Q&As with selected countries and their experiences with the OGP process at the national level. This post is a Q&A with Veronica Cretu, President “CMB” Training Center, Coordinator of the…