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The OGP Mexico City summit of 2015 saw Sri Lanka become the 69th country to join OGP. Since then, the Sri Lankan Parliament has passed the Right to Information (RTI) Act and the Cabinet has passed its first OGP National…

How did you get involved in open government? What in your background inspired you to work in this field? I started to work on what was not yet called “open government” in 2007. That year, France had a new president…

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…

Since the Open Government Partnership (OGP) was launched in 2011, 70 countries have committed to nearly 2500 individual open government reforms. Countries joining OGP in 2011 and 2012 were the first to produce OGP National Action Plans (NAPs). Many of…

1. Information IntegrityAhead of Nigeria’s 2011 election, the West African Non-Government Organisation Network reported troubling inaccuracies in the list of the nation’s polling stations. While preparing a digital map of voting locations, it discovered that as many as 28,000 polling…