By opening up data, and making it sharable and reusable government can enable informed debate, better decision making, and the development of innovative new services. This theme addresses the policies, technologies, processes that enable the free use, reuse, and redistribution of government data by anyone.
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Open data policies and practices have been core to OGP’s culture since its inception. It is the idea that data should be freely available for everyone to access, use, and re-publish as they wish. These proactive information mechanisms are an essential complement to reactive right to information laws.
They ensure that governments do not become data monopolies. In a well-functioning, democratic society citizens need to know what their government is doing. To do that, they must be able freely to access government data and information and to analyze and share that information with other citizens.
Paul-Joël Kamtchang is a data journalist from Cameroon and is the Executive Secretary of ADISI-Cameroon. On African Anti-Corruption Day, he offers insights on how open data enhances transparency and accountability in Central Africa’s governance and discusses the role of data journalism in uncovering corruption.
From more accessible data on OGP commitments to updated fact sheets, the OGP Support Unit was busy making OGP data more accessible in 2023. This data on open government reforms can enable stronger advocacy, peer learning, and reforms. Here, we…
This series was written in consultation with the Transparency International chapters in each country. The reforms described in this series build on priority areas identified in the 2022 Broken Links report, which was written with the support of the Global…
As one of OGP’s founders, Brazil has always had civil servants and civil society actors truly committed to the cause of reform and, with some exceptions, has often been at the vanguard of the Partnership. With a new government in charge, committed to change, can meaningful progress be made on fighting corruption?
The city of Hamburg in Germany has a history when it comes to open government. One essential step was taken in 2012 when the city introduced Hamburg’s Transparency Act, a pioneering effort in Germany. Hamburg set up a Transparency portal…
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