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Making All Voices Count (MAVC) was launched at a big event hosted by USAID in Washington DC on 5th December attended by representatives from governments, NGOs, the private sector and technologists. This $45 million Grand Challenge for Development is based…

OGP Steering Committee Meeting Video of OGP Steering Committee Meeting   Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude, and newly appointed expert adviser to the OGP Independent Reporting Mechanism Dr Mo Ibrahim talk about the importance of inter-governmental co-operation and…

Meeting of the Members of the OGP Steering Committee The OGP Steering Committee has set out a Multilateral Engagement Framework for Multilateral and international organisations to take part in the Open Government Partnership (OGP). In order to take part, organisations…

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…

Mo Ibrahim, Mary Robinson, Graça Machel   The names of the three senior advisers who will sit on the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) international expert panel were unveiled yesterday, and they certainly meet the high expectations of the international opengov…

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…