As a co-founder of OGP, the United Kingdom has been a global leader on open government and anti-corruption efforts, implementing four open government action plans to date. However, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) has completed its review of the UK’s most recent action plan, finding that it has failed to meet minimum standards that are required when developing an OGP action plan.
Just over two months ago, we launched the process to co-create OGP’s new strategy for 2023-2028. As part of the first phase of this process, we’re asking the OGP community and beyond about the role and relevance of open government for the next five years.
Against the backdrop of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Council made a historic decision to grant Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova European Union (EU) candidate status. The EU committed to giving the same status to Georgia, pending fulfillment of a set of conditions.
By the end of 2021, Ozurgeti and Khoni two municipalities in Georgia implemented their commitment and submitted all their evaluation and learning reports. What have they learnt?
In this interview, we talk with the government points of contacts for Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine; Ozurgeti, Georgia; and Vanadzor, Armenia to learn how their first OGP action plans are going.
Now more than ever, it is critical that countries in the region address civic space restrictions both through the OGP framework and beyond. Here are a few actions to take.
En Asia y el Pacífico, un grupo de reformadoras y reformadores están explorando cómo abrir el gobierno. En ese contexto, la apertura del espacio cívico es un punto de partida fundamental. Para poder apuntalar reformas exitosas, los gobiernos deben dar…
Since 2020, OGP Local has welcomed eleven new local members from the Eastern Partnership region; in 2020, we welcomed Akhaltsikhe, Khoni, and Ozurgeti in Georgia; Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia and Ternopil in Ukraine and Vanadzor and Gyumri in Armenia, and in 2022 Kutaisi and Rustavi from Georgia and Armavir and Yerevan from Armenia joined the Partnership.
Human rights algorithmic impact assessments have emerged as an accountability tool to identify potential harms, mitigate unintended impacts, and inform policy decisions on the use of algorithms across key policy areas including health, and education.
El uso cada vez mayor de los algoritmos para los procesos de toma de decisiones puede representar riesgos y afectar la privacidad y los derechos humanos. Recientemente, se han desarrollado evaluaciones de impacto de los algoritmos en los derechos humanos…
Philip Thigo has been the OGP point of contact in the Government of Kenya for many years, working with civil society partners to advance the open government agenda in the country.
Para asegurar que el gobierno abierto se incorpore de manera transversal en la política pública y que las instituciones puedan responder a las necesidades de la ciudadanía, es fundamental contar con personas reformadoras en el gobierno. Philip Thigo ha sido…
This blog post includes provisional results of our online strategy discussions. The results will be out of date as soon as this is published. You can dig into the live results yourself at the bottom of this post. Last month…
En este blog, presentamos los resultados preliminares de las discusiones virtuales que estamos organizando para la cocreación de la estrategia de OGP. Al momento de publicarse, sus resultados ya están desactualizados, pero al final de este blog puedes encontrar un…
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