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Pioneer civil society and government leaders on stage at Paris City Hall, with Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who hosted the Subnational events of the OGP Summit. In December 2016, Open Government Partnership, the Government of France, and the City of Paris…

Source: World Bank, 2015.The farmer taking her produce to market, a father seeking a better education for his children, and a family displaced by a catastrophic earthquake have more in common than you might assume at first glance. The delivery…

Facilitating the implementation of open government initiatives through digital tools is one of the main ambitions of France and the World Resources Institute as co-chairs of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The OGP Toolbox, a collaborative platform launched during the…

Facilitar la implementación de iniciativas de gobierno abierto a través de las herramientas digitales es una de las aspiraciones más importantes de Francia y del World Resources Institute como copresidentes de la Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto (OGP por sus…

Many years ago, not long after the fall of the Berlin Wall, I spent a winter of long gray afternoons in the archives of the Stasi (the East German secret police), researching stories about the former German Democratic Republic. In…

Whereas the 75 member countries of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) initiative are already forming a considerable group of the “cool kids” in the world, luckily, they don’t see themselves as an elitist group. A prevailing argument among many is…

This blog is part of a series on how open government can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The series came out of a collaboration between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Bangkok Regional Hub and the Open Government…

If the last five years of the open government movement has seen a huge amount of activity - including the creation of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), and the rapid development of the open data agenda - how will we…

On December 7, 2016, the Federal Minister of the Interior, Dr. Thomas de Maizière, announced the beginning of Germany’s participation in the Open Government Partnership (OGP). We are very glad to be part of this initiative and we are looking…

This post originally appeared on the NDI - DemocracyWorks and OpeningParliament blogs. Since its launch in 2011, many have urged the Open Government Partnership (OGP) to expand beyond narrow definitions of the term “government.” Legislators, mayors, and others argued that…

This post originally appeared on Medium. The main hall at Palais d’Iena was a hive of activity during OGP16 in Paris.. Credit: Evan Abramson At the end of a dark year, a remarkable community of people from diverse sectors gathered in Paris…