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Free%20wifi.jpg  Photo by: www.otvorenamreza.org - Volunteer from Otvorena mreza (Open Network) initiative provides free wifi to the group of refugees in Tovarnik, Croatia, September 20th, 2015.More and more nations are experiencing a refugee crisis, either as countries of transit or…

This is the first in a six blog series written by winners of the IDRC grant for research on OGP.Just a few weeks ago, 193 countries of the UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Members of…

The Open Government Partnership (OGP) aims to improve the quality of citizens' lives and their relationship to government. In order to do this, the countries in the Partnership have pledged to work through National Action Plans to improve access to…

Want to read this blog in English?TemáticaEn enero de 2009, el Presidente Barack Obama firmó el Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, en la que se reclamaba un gobierno abierto medido por la transparencia, la participación y la colaboración. Esta…

¿Quieres leer este blog en español? Theme In January 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, calling for an open government, as measured by transparency, participation, and collaboration. This statement has sparked the commitment of…

On September 29th, a group of Moldovan civil society organizations, government representatives, and World Bank colleagues (including some remotely from Washington DC) joined an event organized by the Open Government Institute, in partnership with World Bank and E-Government Center to…

In this section of the OGP newsletter, we feature individuals from government and civil society, and ask them about their experiences. Here is what Tamara Puhovski (Office of the Deputy Foreign Minister and coordinator of the Open Government Partnership in…

Earlier this summer we launched a call for proposals for research on OGP, with six mini-grants for the taking for ideas with the potential to inform the work of the Open Government Partnership. The rules were simple: the proposed research…

Want to read this statement in English? Como Co-Presidentes da Sociedade Civil da Parceria para o Governo Aberto (Open Government Partnership – OGP), expressamos profunda preocupação com as notícias de que o futuro da Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) está em…

Queres lêr isto em português? "As civil society co-chairs of the Open Government Partnership, we are deeply concerned about reports that the future of the Office of the Comptroller General (CGU) in Brazil is at risk. CGU was a founding…