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The UK's Cabinet Secretary was originally writing in The Independent about the motivation behind Whitehall's data crusade. For as many years as Britain has had a centralised civil service we have been rather good at collecting information. From the first…

This guest blog post was originally published on the Opening Parliaments blog The Open Government Partnership (OGP) has been successful in bringing aboard nearly 60 countries to make commitments — some more concrete than others — toward transparency and openness in government. It has…

This guest blog post was originally posted on the Guardian's Transparency Hub, which is hosting a Live Q&A with Jeremy Heywood at 12-1pm GMT on 4 December 2012 At the Next Web conference in Amsterdam, Hilary Mason, chief scientist at…

Originally published in the Huffington Post This is a pivotal moment for international transparency and open government. Just over a year after it was launched, the Open Government Partnership has 58 members, covering a third of the world's population. The United Kingdom is now…

The Italian Department for Public Administration  on the 10th of December will welcome the delegations of European governments and CSOs in Rome for the Third European OGP Outreach Meeting: Transparency, participation and collaboration: Public Administration opens to dialogue. This gathering…

  DR. KUNTORO MANGKUSUBROTO DELIVERING HIS KEYNOTE SPEECH ON OGP   “EMBRACING THE COLORS OF OPENNESS” The Government of Indonesia hosted the first Open Government Partnership (OGP) Outreach in Asia at the 5th Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) in Bali, Indonesia…

Courtesy of Boyan Yurukov During a recent visit to Bulgaria, the European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes commented on the digital development in Bulgaria - both the good and the bad. The conference she attended, Digital Agenda for…

The potential of new technology for advancing transparency and open government was the theme of the Open Up! conference on November 13th in London. Co-hosted by Omidyar Network and DFID in association with Wired magazine, the event brought together an…

This guest blog by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, was originally posted on Wired.co.uk. Originally, the acute frustration which led me to invent the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989…

Open Government Summit Rome As an Italian, I know all too well that Italy has not always been considered at the forefront of the open government movement. But things are now changing fast. The crisis which brought about new economic…