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 A little over a year ago, the release of the Panama Papers implicated dozens of high-profile individuals with links to the extractive sector. A month before that, in February 2016, Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) member countries had adopted…

Hace poco más de un año, con la publicación de los Panama Papers se acusaron a docenas de personas de alto nivel que tenían vínculos con el sector extractivo. Un mes antes, en febrero de 2016, los países miembros de…

The calls from business for government action on transparency in company ownership are becoming louder.

Las empresas están haciendo un llamado cada vez más fuerte a los gobiernos sobre el tema de la transparencia en los beneficiarios reales.

We just completed an exceedingly important search for two new civil society members to join their fellow governments and civil society colleagues on the OGP Steering Committee (SC). The timing of these appointments could not be more opportune.  As I…

Last week parliamentary reformers from over 50 countries came together on a sunny morning in Kyiv, in the hallowed portals of the Verkhovna Rada, to begin talking about the non-trivial issue of how to build citizens trust through legislative openness...…

The Open Government Partnership has been closely following the recent developments regarding the national OGP platform in Mexico. The decision yesterday by Mexican civil society organizations to leave the national OGP platform is a statement that challenges everyone working on…

This blog is adapted from Sanjay Pradhan’s remarks at the Asian Development Bank Annual Meetings in Yokohoma, Japan on May 5. The last mile to break out of the middle-income trap to reach high-income has proven daunting and ultimately elusive…

In a political climate where ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts’ have become buzzwords, there is no better time than now for governments to embrace open government data. But that’s not what’s happening, according to the latest edition of the Open…

On May 22 - 23, 2017, members of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Steering Committee and the Support Unit, will travel to Baku, Azerbaijan as part of OGP’s Response Policy process. The OGP Steering Committee decided to make Azerbaijan inactive…

This post originally appeared on Open Data Charter. Corruption has a devastating impact on the lives of people around the world. When money that should be spent on schools, hospitals and other government services ends up in the hands of…

It was a cold gray day in late 2015 when OGP was forced to admit that their website, recently spit-polished but basically held together with bubble gum and paper clips and strength of will, had to go... Some time later...…