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OGP statement on IRM researcher in Montenegro

Date: Tuesday, 11th November, 2014   The Open Government Partnership (OGP) Steering Committee* is deeply concerned about recent personal attacks on Ms. Vanja Calovic, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) researcher in Montenegro. Montenegro is a participating country in OGP, and…

Collecting Success Stories

Recently, the Netherlands published its self-assessment report on its first National Action Plan (2014-2015). In the report, eight learning points and challenges are mentioned in order  to improve the impact of the open government activities in our country. Three of them relate…

Crowdsourcing a UK Open Government Manifesto

One of the principles behind the Open Government Partnership, at least as far as we see it, is that government should get better at it each round of action plans. Engagement with civil society should be deeper. Commitments should get…

Public survey on Open Justice – will you participate?

Hello all, A survey which forms part of the study “Open Justice: transparency and proximity to justice within the current context of Open Government” is now available for public participation. The study intends to explore the concept of Open Justice…

Faces of Open Government – Igor Vidacak

In this section of the OGP newsletter, we feature open government champions both from government and civil society, and ask them about their OGP experiences. Here is what they have to say: How does open government make a difference in…

Global Open Government Partnership offers new platform for reformers

This post originally appeared on TASC's blog, http://www.progressive-economy.ie/ and has been republished with permission from the author.  Ireland published its first National Action Plan on 23 July as part of the global Open Government Partnership (OGP).  The two year plan contains a total of…

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