Europe

Bucharest, Romania – 26 high school students, 14 hours of programming in 2 days, 5 ambitious online platforms aimed at improving government transparency and accountability. This describes the event that took place this past weekend (23/24 February 2013) at the…

On February 15 2013, the Croatian Parliament adopted a new Freedom of Information Act (FoIA), following a decade of advocacy, public campaigns, research, law amendments and public discussions. During its long-term monitoring of implementation and research on FoIA implementation in…

The website www.budzeti.ba has been launched - Civil society organizations, journalists and citizens do not have appropriate access to public data - An ad hoc coalition of non-governmental organizations that advocates Open Government Partnership has been established An Open Data…

Participatory budgeting -  which involves local people when making decisions about how public money is spent on specific projects -  has proved popular with voters and is here to stay. Our certainty about that comes at least in part from…

This is the third in our five part series of Q&As with selected countries and their experiences with the OGP process at the national level. This post is a Q&A with Veronica Cretu, President “CMB” Training Center, Coordinator of the…

One of the most meaningful ways the public can interact with the government is through public consultations on laws. Croatia made improving the quality of their public consultations a key tenet of their OGP Action Plan; ensuring citizens are given…

A strong focus of the first Estonian OGP action plan is developing public e-services. The ultimate goal is to make government easy and accessible to everybody. The first step in doing this has been to improve the functionality and user-friendliness…

Access to information at all levels of public life is a crucial component of a true information society. This was the position the Greek government took when it came to reforming how they publish their data. It’s not just that…

This is the first in a five part series of posts based on Q&As with selected countries and their experiences with the OGP process at the national level. This first post is a Q&A with Katarina Ott, Director at the…