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Carleton University undergraduate students in Ottawa, Canada, are studying the link between communication and open government. In the class, the students examine how communication can be used to improve governance and to foster a more collaborative relationship between governments and…

Carleton University undergraduate students in Ottawa, Canada, are studying the link between communication and open government. In the class, the students examine how communication can be used to improve governance and to foster a more collaborative relationship between governments and…

In 2019 the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) published the end of term report for Canada’s third action plan. The report covers the full action plan implementation period of 1 July 2016 through 30 June 2018. In Canada, the IRM researcher…

En 2019, el Mecanismo de Revisión Independiente (MRI) publicó el informe de fin de término para el segundo plan de acción de El Salvador. Este informe cubre la totalidad del periodo de implementación del plan de acción desde Junio 2016…

Mexico City | March 5th, 2019 The new administration represented by the Ministry of Public Affairs (SFP, in Spanish) the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI, in Spanish) and the Civil Society Core…

In August 2018, the Open Government Partnership’s (OGP) Independent Reporting Mechanism released its End-of-Term Report assessing U.S. performance under the government’s third national action plan covering the 2015-2017 reporting period. As the OGP’s National Researcher for the United States for…

by Jason I. McMann, PhD This paper uses the Open Government Partnership’s (OGP) assessment methodology and difference-in-means tests to conduct a comparative empirical analysis of U.S. performance under the federal government’s third National Action Plan (NAP3) relative to its own…

This May, the Government of Canada (GoC) and Open Government Partnership (OGP) will convene the 6th OGP Summit in Ottawa, bringing nearly 100 national and local member governments of OGP and their civil society counterparts together to discuss the opportunities…