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Este artículo es una adaptación de una presentación que se llevará a cabo en los días académicos en la Cumbre Global de OGP en París del 7 al 9 de diciembre. En medio de falsas noticias, referéndums y la llamada…

Desde la creación de la Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto (OGP) en 2011, 70 países han establecido casi 2500 compromisos de reformas de gobierno abierto. Los países que se incorporaron a OGP en el 2011 y 2012 fueron los primeros…

This blog is a part of a series of posts on the importance of information integrity. Click here to read the introductory post. On 11th November 2016, Matthew Kirschenbaum tweeted: Safe to assume that the @realDonaldTrump????? account will now be…

This blog is a part of a series of posts on the importance of information integrity. Click here to read the introductory post.The previous post in this series looked at capturing and publishing data with metadata, but government data is…

This blog is a part of a series of posts on the importance of information integrity. Click here to read the introductory post. Data becomes more powerful when it has context. When we can say that data was transmitted by…

This blog originally appeared on the World Resources Institute website, and is shared here with WRI’s permission. Countries made many national climate commitments as part of the Paris Agreement on climate change, which entered into force earlier this month. Now…

The OGP Mexico City summit of 2015 saw Sri Lanka become the 69th country to join OGP. Since then, the Sri Lankan Parliament has passed the Right to Information (RTI) Act and the Cabinet has passed its first OGP National…

OGP's website is getting a new look in the new year as well as updated tools and resources to better serve the greater open government community. Focusing on the concrete needs of all constituents of the OGP process -- government,…

UPDATE: The Mid-Term Final report is now available here.   In June 2016 OGP commissioned a mid-term review of its current four-year strategy. The review was carried out by the Development Portfolio Management Group based at the University of Southern…

How did you get involved in open government? What in your background inspired you to work in this field? I started to work on what was not yet called “open government” in 2007. That year, France had a new president…