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OGP in the News – Week of June 13, 2016
A series providing a round-up of media attention received by the Open Government Partnership throughout the world. This week the main theme in OGP-related news and chatter from across the globe was one of OGP’s core values: freedom of information.…
Three simple steps to deliver better value infrastructure through your OGP National Action Plan
We all need better value infrastructure. From the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to the World Bank Group, it is generally estimated that USD$3.7 trillion global infrastructure investment is needed annually yet only around US$2.7 trillion is currently…
Learning to Open Government: New Evidence to Inform OGP’s Efforts to Make Change Happen
Global Integrity is excited to present the results of “Learning to Open Government,” a first of its kind examination of how the Open Government Partnership is playing out in practice in five countries: Albania, Costa Rica, Mexico, the Philippines, and…
Open Letter to World Bank President on Disbandment of ATI Unit
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…
OGP in the News – Week of June 6, 2016
A series providing a round-up of media attention received by the Open Government Partnership throughout the world. Following last week’s successful Americas Regional Meeting in Montevideo, press coverage of OGP turned to our next major international event: the 2016 Global…
Communities of Practice: They keep disappointing us, but we keep building them
How the Open Government Partnership is boosting COP effectiveness Collective Action: A love-hate relationship Collective action presents challenges that are widely recognized, yet people continually prefer to work together. Governance practitioners recognize that the issues we work to address are…
OGP in the News – Week of May 30, 2016
A series providing a round-up of media attention received by the Open Government Partnership throughout the world. The biggest news in the world of OGP this week was the Americas Regional Meeting, where some 500 individuals from around the world…
From Mechanism to Movement: An OGP Call to Collective Action
Speech by Sanjay Pradhan at the OGP Americas Meeting, Uruguay 1 June 2016 Thank you, Uruguayan government and civil society, for hosting this wonderful conference and for welcoming us so warmly on this cold morning. It is an extraordinary pleasure for…