Europe
Open Government Partnership Welcomes President-Elect Emmanuel Macron as Co-Chair
***For Immediate Release*** PARIS, FRANCE - May 8, 2017 - We welcome the election of President-Elect Emmanuel Macron, who will now chair the Open Government Partnership until September, and who has been an important voice on the virtues of openness…
Money, Decision-making, and Democracy: A New Experience from Buenos Aires
One of the positive outcomes of the OGP Subnational Pilot Program is that it creates relationships among like-minded cities and governments. These relationships result in exchanges of knowledge, practices, and experiences. Buenos Aires Elige (BA Elige), a platform through which…
Taking the Pain Out of Public Procurement
Originally posted on the B-Team blog. Metro Cash & Carry is one of the world’s leading self-service wholesale companies – selling food and non-food products to businesses and governments. In the past, MC&C’s Ukrainian branch would turn down potential business…
Global Legislative Openness Conference to explore parliaments, OGP, and trust in representative institutions
This spring, 30 Open Government Partnership (OGP) member countries will develop National Action Plans. With international momentum growing and new rules on parliamentary participation in place, this cycle presents an opportunity to advance the legislative openness agenda by developing meaningful…
How Ukraine used the Charter to develop an Open Data Roadmap
Ukraine’s open data journey started in 2015 but has roots dating back to the historic events of 2014 when thousands of Ukrainians came together on the Maidan, Kyiv's central square, to demand greater transparency of government and economic development. These…
Francia busca elevar el nivel de ambición de su próximo Plan de Acción Nacional y presenta su plataforma participativa
El 15 de marzo, Francia lanzó una plataforma en línea para iniciar el desarrollo de su próximo Plan de Acción Nacional. La plataforma está abierta a funcionarios de gobierno, organizaciones de la sociedad civil y otros actores y reunirá sus…
Co-Creation in the UK
Cocreación en el Reino Unido
The UK made a big effort to be as open and co-operative as possible in its second and third National Action Plan (NAP) process and, based on what I saw and heard, both government and civil society worked hard to…
En su segundo y tercer proceso del Plan de Acción Nacional (PAN), el Reino Unido hizo un gran esfuerzo por ser lo más abierto y cooperativo posible. Según mi impresión, tanto el gobierno como la sociedad civil trabajaron en la…
United Kingdom End-of-Term Report 2013-2015
In November 2016, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) began publishing end of term reports (EOTR) for those countries who closed action plan implementation in 2016. These reports cover the full two year action plan cycle of each country. In United…
France Aims at Deepening Ambition of Its Next National Plan and Opens Up a Participatory Platform
On March 15th, France released an online platform to initiate the development of its next national action plan. Open to public administrations, civil society organizations and other stakeholders, this platform will gather contributions in order to build up ambitious and…