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Featured Commitment – Uruguay

Country: Uruguay Commitment: Integrated System to Manage Complaints at the Sub-National Level National Action Plan: 2014-2016 The Municipality of Maldonado in Uruguay, with a population of approximately 164,000 citizens, has become a trendsetter in e-government with the development of an…

Faces of Open Government: Santiago Garcia, Paraguay

Santiago is Paraguay’s Point of Contact for the Open Government Partnership.  He works in the Technical Secretariat for Planning. How does open government make a difference in people's lives in your country? Paraguay, like most Latin American countries, has a representative…

The fight against corruption in Latin America requires greater ambition

The Open Government Partnership (OGP) Regional Meeting comes at a tense political moment in the region. A variety of “scandals” – mostly linked to a lack of public ethics, accountability and/or to corruption – have occupied the news in recent…

Open Government: Reflections from Uruguay

By the time you read this, hundreds of people from all over the continent will have arrived in Montevideo to take part in the OGP Americas Regional Meeting. It is an honor and pleasure for Uruguay to welcome the people…

El camino de la apertura: Agesic

Want to read this blog in English? En Agesic, desde su creación, hemos entendido que las formas de la democracia son estructuras cambiantes, que deben adaptarse ya no a los esquemas de proyectos o políticas aisladas, sino a la evolución que…

The Path to Openness: AGESIC

¿Quieres leer este blog en español? Since the creation of AGESIC, we have understood that democracy involves structures that change and should adapt – though no longer according to the schemes of projects or isolated policies, but to the evolution…

Tough challenges and big opportunities: commitments to watch in the Americas.

To date, the Americas region faces a number of challenges in advancing  open government reforms. For many countries, insecurity, corruption and human rights violations are just some of the critical issues that governments need to tackle. Access to information and…

Uruguay to host the Open Government Partnership Americas Regional Meeting

MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY- 27 MAY 2016- In preparation for the 2016 Regional Americas Meeting of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) held June 1st and 2nd, some 500 participants from government, civil society, the media, and business from 25 countries are gathering…

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