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Want to Help Solve Elections and Facebook? Switch the Default to Transparent Advertising Online

Today more than ever, elections are won and lost on social media. While social media can be a great platform for voter mobilisation and civic education campaigns, online political campaigning also entails risks to electoral integrity...

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Open Algorithms: Experiences from France, the Netherlands and New Zealand

Algorithms - analytical systems that process data and supplement or replace decision-making previously undertaken by people - have become an essential way for governments to improve delivery of public services and implementation of policy...

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The 4 Cs to More Ethical, Transparent, and Accountable Public Administrations

We often talk about the role of politicians in fixing the trust deficit, but what can bureaucracies do?

Municipal Budget and Spending Data for Water in the Netherlands

Lessons from Reformers: Starting in 2015, Dutch local governments began providing financial data through a web portal at www.openspending.nl...

Europe and Open Government – A Powerful Opportunity

The European election of 2019 is said to be a watershed moment that will ask voters to choose between more or less Europe, between inclusion and diversity or exclusion and nationalism, and between societies that are more open or more…