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This post originally appeared on Shareable: CivicSystem This interview is with Sonya Rifkin, co-director and co-founder of the Community Democracy Project, which began in November 2011 in Oakland, CA. What is the Community Democracy Project's plan?  A participatory budgeting initiative to…

This blog post originally appeared on the OpeningParliament.org Blog and has been republished with permission from the author.  Last Wednesday  (24 July 2013) in Bogotá, Colombia, Senator Hernán Larraín, Chair of the Chilean Congress’s Bicameral Commission on Transparency, announced efforts to create a…

  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…

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.…

The Peruvian state and the administration of President Ollanta Humala decided to join the OGP in September 2011, thereby reaffirming the President’s priorities of enhancing transparency, fighting corruption, improving accountability and increasing civic engagement. In November 2011, the first meeting…

En el ámbito internacional, la Agenda para el Desarrollo Post-2015 es la siguiente estrategia para que los países miembros de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) persigan nuevos objetivos de desarrollo sustentables que retomen y rebasen a los actuales…

  Je suis un Québécois et je crois vraiment aux données ouvertes et au gouvernement ouvert. Il existe plusieurs initiatives qui vont en ce sens dans la communauté francophone. Les réseaux sociaux et le web 2.0 sont d'une grande aide…

Nothing is more beneficial during a modern disaster than public participation. As the saying goes, “two minds are better than one.” When it comes to social media, millions of minds come together to solve problems, seek out answers, and disseminate…