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How open is our administration and governance in Denmark? "Very open," you're probably thinking. But is it so? Do you for example know exactly what your municipality has registered about you? Or do you know how to access the information they have? Can you…

Hvor åben er vores administration og regeringsførelse egentligt i Danmark? ”Meget åben”, tænker du sikkert. Men er den så det? Ved du for eksempel præcist, hvad din kommune har registreret om dig? Eller ved du, hvordan du får adgang til…

Economists may argue about the precise mechanisms through which the quality of public governance underpins economic prosperity but organisations like the OECD and the World Bank have long advocated policies founded on this linkage. Their consistent advice is that greater…

The Open Government Partnership Working Groups have been very busy since their launch at the OGP Summit in London last October. Each group has been reaching out to government and civil society participants to build a network of reformers and…

Moldova.jpg The Government of Moldova took a different and more participatory approach on developing and consulting the new open government action plan for 2014-2015. The launch of the new process, which is significantly different from last year and which actively…

Even before the recent decision of the Philippine Supreme Court declaring the legislators’ pork barrel (also known as Priority Development Assistance Fund or PDAF) unconstitutional, public finance experts and good governance advocates in the country have raised possible alternatives to…

OGP IRM Local Researchers Call The Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) of the Open Government Partnership  is seeking individuals to carry out research at the national level in 33 countries to assess government progress on implementation of OGP Action Plans.  Background The…

EPPlenaryvote.jpg This article originally appeared on Access Info Europe and has been republished with permission from the author.  Access Info Europe has welcomed the decision[1] by the European Parliament to bring greater transparency to its decision making by recording and publishing…

Poland blog.png This piece was co-authored by Kalina Michocka.  In 2013 the Polish organization Jeden Świat and the Dutch Centre for Budget Monitoring and Citizen Participation started a project to introduce budget monitoring in the cities of Konin and Kalisz in…