National

This blog first appeared on the Huffington Post website. The movement for transparency and openness in government took decisive steps forward last week. As lead co-chair of the Open Government Partnership, the UK hosted the first ministerial level meeting in…

About 80 representatives from 16 governments, international organisations and five civil society organisations came together on 10th December, 2012 in Rome to debate at the third European Outreach Meeting of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) dedicated to Transparency, participation and…

On 4 December, 2012, members of the OGP steering committee gathered in London. Some of those present at the photocall towards the end of the day included Dr Mo Ibrahim, one of the new International Expert Panel members, UK Cabinet Office Minister Francis…

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…