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In September and October of 2013, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) published eight Progress Reports for public comment.  These eight countries joined OGP in September 2011, and the IRM progress reports cover the first full year of action plan implementation.  …

Transparency in the flow of money in politics means a more informed voting public, which consequently strengthens the democratic process. Croatia’s legislative framework is deemed to be one of the best among the Balkan countries. Political parties are required to…

For a service that is offered for over one million stops in 800 cities, Sonny ben- Shimon, software engineer at Google Israel, thought it odd that Google Transit was still not available in his country. The thought quickly materialized into…

One of the privileges of our work in the Transparency and Accountability initiative is the opportunity to bring together experts from every sector working on opening government. At OGP’s London summit, T/AI helped to organize a number of events, including…

This article originally appeared on the Guardian Public Leaders Network: Open Government 2013. The London summit of Open Government Partnership produced some plans and a lot of talk – now it's time to get to work. It took a quietly-spoken,…

  Following the Irish government’s letter of intent to join the OGP in May 2013, a tender was issued for an organisation to undertake the initial civil society (CS) consultation process on behalf of the Irish government. Transparency International Ireland…

Screen Shot 2013-09-08 at 07.18.28.png In a couple of days, the British Prime Minister David Cameron will be speaking at the Open Government Partnership event in London, and the question is: will he follow through on his statement made at…

Ireland.jpg We caught up with Denis Parfenov and Martin Wallace, two of the lead initiators of the campaign for Ireland to join the OGP. We asked them to share their reflections on the experience to date, and to share lessons,…