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The Open Government Partnership has 60 participating countries, and the demand for open and accountable government continues to build around the world.  After a period of rapid growth, we’ve decided as an initiative to double down on delivery.  In other words,…

Photo: Richard Sambrook What role could news organisations and reporters play regarding open government? Writing in We Media, former director of global news at the BBC, Richard Sambrook, has revealed that he is leading a study of the role and…

  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…

After lots of behind the scenes activity, the starting gun for the next OGP International Summit was fired this week; the invitations to the 60 OGP member governments have been sent out. The Summit has three key aims, to: drive…

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…

The Federal Access to Information and Data Protection Institute (IFAI) is one of the world’s formative and most respected Right to Information (RTI) establishments and it was instrumental in developing and shaping the OGP. ’Back in 2010, one of our…

The Open Government Partnership and the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency is pleased to announce a webinar to introduce the OGP Fiscal Openness Working Group on Tuesday, July 30, 2013 at 8:00 am EST. We hope you can join us.…