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Cross posted with the permission of the author from blog.openingparliament.org Just a few months ago, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) announced the creation of the Legislative Openness Working Group (LOWG), one of five new thematic working groups to be launched in 2013. Since…

magnifying glass_IRM image (1)_0.jpg The Open Government Partnership’s Independent Reporting Mechanism recently released Public Comment Versions of the Progress Reports from the 8 founding countries of OGP. It is now pleased to release a Public Comment Version of the raw…

1280px-Jakarta_Panorama.jpg Laporan IRM OGP Indonesia untuk mendapatkan komentar publik telah diterbitkan. Sebagai negara yang sedang bertumbuh (emerging country), Indonesia menaruh rencana aksi yang cukup ambisius, meski hanya 5 dari action plan yang selesai sesuai kerangka waktu, dengan 7 lainnya sedang…

1280px-Jakarta_Panorama.jpg Indonesia’s OGP IRM report to obtain public comments has been publishing. As an emerging country, Indonesia drafted a pretty ambitious action plan, although only 5 of 12 actions were completed within the time frame, while the other 7 commitments…

One of the many reasons I look forward to the Open Government Partnership Summit in London is the opportunity to focus attention around open contracting. At first glance, open contracting – the movement to make public contracts available, accessible, comparable,…

Screen Shot 2013-09-08 at 07.18.28.png In a couple of days, the British Prime Minister David Cameron will be speaking at the Open Government Partnership event in London, and the question is: will he follow through on his statement made at…

Ireland.jpg We caught up with Denis Parfenov and Martin Wallace, two of the lead initiators of the campaign for Ireland to join the OGP. We asked them to share their reflections on the experience to date, and to share lessons,…

The release of the IRM Progress Report for the United States is very timely – but not necessarily for good reasons.  Civil society is, at the moment, pretty much in the dark about the US Plan to be presented in…

OGP in action.jpg OGP was founded on the premise that ‘good ideas come from everywhere.’ Eight months into my role at the OGP Support Unit, I’m completely convinced of the truth of this statement.  However, I also recognize that it’s…

Manila.jpg Preliminaries The objectives of the Open Government Partnership are noteworthy:  together with their citizens and key agencies,  to fully realize the commitments of governments (the Philippines, in a group of eight founding countries) to promote transparency, empowering citizens, fight…