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“Do we really need to come up with actions for the Open Government Action Plan 2014-2015 for our sector or even for our department, within the Ministry? “It is desirable”. “But then, it means we will be responsible for implementing…

This post originally appeared on Shareable: CivicSystem This interview is with Sonya Rifkin, co-director and co-founder of the Community Democracy Project, which began in November 2011 in Oakland, CA. What is the Community Democracy Project's plan?  A participatory budgeting initiative to…

This blog post originally appeared on the OpeningParliament.org Blog and has been republished with permission from the author.  Last Wednesday  (24 July 2013) in Bogotá, Colombia, Senator Hernán Larraín, Chair of the Chilean Congress’s Bicameral Commission on Transparency, announced efforts to create a…

The Netherlands submitted its letter of intent to join the OGP in September 2011 and the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations presented a draft Action Plan to the OGP Steering Committee in April 2012. This Plan was written…

  In preparation for the US’ consultation process for drafting the 2nd National Action Plan (NAP), civil society organizations (CSOs) are working to draft the kind of ambitious commitments that will help the government make substantial progress towards openness. The…

Diplo Foundation in Malta are hosting a webinar on issues realted to Open Government and would like to get your views and opinions. The session takes place tomorrow, July 30th, at 10:00 GMT. The event will last for 1 hour…

e-DIRAP organized a Google+ Hangout on the topic of Open Government on Thursday, 25 July 2013 at UTC/GMT 04:30-05:30. This Hangout brought together professionals from government, civil society, academia and the private sector to discuss issues related to open government in…

This post originally appeared on the Sunlight Foundation blog and has been republished with permission from the author. Two weeks ago, Uruguay, a small Latin American country, had the pleasure of hosting open data and transparency activists from different corners of…

This post originally appeared on the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information's (IDFI) OGP Georgia blog and has been republished with permission from the author. The Government of Georgia published an official decree “about the necessary measures for the implementation of the…