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The Peruvian state and the administration of President Ollanta Humala decided to join the OGP in September 2011, thereby reaffirming the President’s priorities of enhancing transparency, fighting corruption, improving accountability and increasing civic engagement. In November 2011, the first meeting…

The mySociety International team recently had an opportunity to meet with Mzalendo founders in Kenya. As you likely know, Mzalendo is the Kenyan Parliamentary Monitoring site similar to TheyWorkForYou which mySociety has helped re-build since June 2011 with support from…

After the photo opportunities, early morning swims and talk of famous blues musicians last week in Lough Erne, the temptation is to think it’s all over for the UK’s Presidency of the G8. David Cameron staked his political capital on…

Devolution of government to the counties in Kenya requires civil society to be ever more vigilant if the objectives of devolution have to be achieved. This vigilance is especially required because Kenyan citizens have invested their hopes in these devolved…

Open government is one of the key strategic initiatives of the government of Indonesia. As an incubator for new and innovative ideas, the UKP4, also known as the President’s Delivery Unit (PDU), is responsible for ensuring that all key promises…

The late President John Atta Mills signed Ghana up to the OGP in September 2011, after which there was a prolonged period of inertia. It took a long time for the information to trickle down to the relevant ministry. ‘The initiative…

The government of the Republic of Moldova embarked on its e-Transformation agenda in 2010. This agenda involves a commitment to implementing Information Communication Technologies (ICT) with the aim of transforming the economy and governance. This will be achieved by driving…

In my previous post on the Open Government Partnership website, I posed the question: ‘Is Ireland closing the door on Open Government?’ At that time I expressed the view that Ireland’s government was uninterested in the benefits of open government.…

This post originally appeared on open up. I worry that civil society advocates working on Open Government Partnership are making a tactical mistake. There has been a lot of activity - rightly - around which OGP countries should be 'in…

Graphics: Merijn Bram Rutgers The Centre for Budget Monitoring and Citizen Participation is a Dutch organization founded in December 2011. The foundation is the result of a co-operation between active citizens and social workers from the Netherlands and INESC from…