Europe

The Compass of Transparency (www.magellanopa.it/bussola) is an automated online portal, which gives citizens the ability to monitor, in real time and in a uniform manner, whether the websites of various public administration (PA) bodies are complying with the transparency requirements…

In April 2011, Moldova became one of the rst countries within Eastern Europe to launch an Open Data portal. The portal, www.date.gov.md brings together disparate and disconnected datasets published by various Ministries and central administration of CES, under a single…

The purpose of this online service was to promote active public participation and citizen engagement in policy making, by enabling Montenegrin citizens and permanent foreign residents to directly influence government policies, through the use of new technology. The platform goes…

In March 2007, the Norwegian Government invited almost 100 ordinary citizens to ‘The Governments Citizen Conference’ to give their views on how the government could work better. Two of the most important lessons learned from the citizens they met were…

The Open Government Partnership’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) has launched its third report, this one on the UK which can be found below. IRM progress reports are carried out by an independent researcher under the guidance of an International Experts'…

The UK is now deep into the detail of developing the commitments which will form its second National Action Plan. This will be published at the Annual Summit at the end of October.  The release of the IRM report on…

A CKAN hackathon is taking place on Saturday, 28th September at TCube in Dublin bringing together IT specialists, political representatives and members of the public with an interest in making data open. Developers, designers, journalists, academics, policy makers, creative thinkers,…

President V. F. Yanukovych expressed Ukraine’s intent to join the OGP in September 2011, right after the global initiative was launched. Like other countries in the post-soviet region, Ukraine set great store by joining the OGP; this is an important…

Ukraine has fulfilled only 55 percent of the OGP commitments after a year of the initiative’s implementation in the country – shows the research conducted by a coalition of experts headed by Transparency International Ukraine. A year has passed since…

In the months leading up to the global launch of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in September 2011, the UK government, like other founding members, was engaged in a process of designing the OGP – what it should look like…