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One of the many reasons I look forward to the Open Government Partnership Summit in London is the opportunity to focus attention around open contracting. At first glance, open contracting – the movement to make public contracts available, accessible, comparable,…

Screen Shot 2013-09-08 at 07.18.28.png In a couple of days, the British Prime Minister David Cameron will be speaking at the Open Government Partnership event in London, and the question is: will he follow through on his statement made at…

SummitLogo1.png Money in politics. Intrusive government surveillance of the Internet. Personal privacy and media freedoms under threat. All of these issues sit at the frontier of the open government agenda. And virtually none of them are currently present in the…

Ireland.jpg We caught up with Denis Parfenov and Martin Wallace, two of the lead initiators of the campaign for Ireland to join the OGP. We asked them to share their reflections on the experience to date, and to share lessons,…

The release of the IRM Progress Report for the United States is very timely – but not necessarily for good reasons.  Civil society is, at the moment, pretty much in the dark about the US Plan to be presented in…

OGP in action.jpg OGP was founded on the premise that ‘good ideas come from everywhere.’ Eight months into my role at the OGP Support Unit, I’m completely convinced of the truth of this statement.  However, I also recognize that it’s…

Manila.jpg Preliminaries The objectives of the Open Government Partnership are noteworthy:  together with their citizens and key agencies,  to fully realize the commitments of governments (the Philippines, in a group of eight founding countries) to promote transparency, empowering citizens, fight…

Capitol_Building_3.jpg The Open Government Partnership’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) has launched its eighth progress reports for public comment; this one is on the United States and can be found below. IRM progress reports are carried out by an independent researcher…

With the OGP Summit rapidly approaching, we're looking for people interested in giving quick fire talks on empowering citizens at the Speakers' Stand in the Summit's Festival space. During the Festival portions of the Summit the Speakers' Stand will host quick fire…

This post originally appeared on All About Open Data. National and regional nodes of the Open Data Institute (@UKODI) must be established in every Open Government Partnership member country. With the ODI Summit and the OGP Summit occurring during the same week in London at…