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In September and October of 2013, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) published eight Progress Reports for public comment.  These eight countries joined OGP in September 2011, and the IRM progress reports cover the first full year of action plan implementation.  …

In keeping with the spirit of transparency and accountability, Brazil became one of the founding members of OGP, and promoting corporate accountability is one of the more unique features in its first Action plan. To encourage the private sector to…

‘Innovation is bottom-up, decentralized and unpredictable’, explains the Spaceapps team at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In what turned out to be the largest hackathon in history, the international Spaceapps challenge brought together space agencies and citizen technologists, scientists…

Transparency in the flow of money in politics means a more informed voting public, which consequently strengthens the democratic process. Croatia’s legislative framework is deemed to be one of the best among the Balkan countries. Political parties are required to…

Using a variety of media such as the LAPOR! website, text messaging and mobile applications, citizens can report on anything from bribe requesting public of cials to damaged bridges and teacher absenteeism. The website allows users to even upload pictures…

For a service that is offered for over one million stops in 800 cities, Sonny ben- Shimon, software engineer at Google Israel, thought it odd that Google Transit was still not available in his country. The thought quickly materialized into…

Mexico’s membership to OGP opened the gateway to negotiating with the education authorities to provide data. IMCO acquired databases on standardized test results and active teaching spaces, and cross-referenced them with basic data on the schools. Mejora tu Escuela covers…

In Azerbaijani, ASAN translates to “EASY” and was conceived as a one- stop shop where the services of various government agencies are provided.https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B471ujVfgLNMZmM1WHk0RGJSdnM

OGP guide.jpg Photo Credit: By The Cabinet Office "OGP Annual Summit London 2013" via Flickr. As the Annual Summit of the Open Government Partnership was getting closer and closer, the call for organizing local events or the so-called “remote hubs” in…

One of the privileges of our work in the Transparency and Accountability initiative is the opportunity to bring together experts from every sector working on opening government. At OGP’s London summit, T/AI helped to organize a number of events, including…