Asia and the Pacific
Champions for Champions: Behind the scenes of making open government work
Líderes y campeones: el trabajo de gobierno abierto tras bambalinas
Reflections from the OGP Asia Pacific Regional Meeting 2018, Seoul, South Korea I arrived at the Westin Chosun Hotel in Seoul, South Korea, the official venue of the 2018 OGP Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting on November 4, a day before the…
Reflexiones del Encuentro Regional de Asia Pacífico de OGP de 2018 en Seúl, Corea del Sur El 4 de noviembre llegué al hotel Westin Chosun de Seúl, Corea del Sur, sede oficial del Encuentro Regional de Asia Pacífico de OGP…
Empowering Citizens, Opening Government
Exactly 20 years ago, in the early months of 1998, I was a student living in Indonesia, witnessing in person my first and only revolution. What started as a small student protest turned in a couple of weeks into a…
Tbilisi Final IRM Review 2017 – For Public Comment
In 2018, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) published its assessment report for Tbilisi's first action plan, prepared by the independent researcher, Dea Tsartsidze. It covers the full action plan implementation period of January 2017 through December 2017. The IRM findings…
Seoul and the OGP Ten
As the government of the Republic of Korea welcomes open government champions from all over Asia-Pacific and beyond for this year’s Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting, here are a few things to expect. This year, eighty percent of OGP participating countries and…