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Originally posted at internationalbudget.org  At the end of the week I will join over 1,000 delegates from over 60 countries at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Annual Summit in London. This is the second OGP Summit since its inception in 2011…

Cross posted with the permission of the author from blog.openingparliament.org Just a few months ago, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) announced the creation of the Legislative Openness Working Group (LOWG), one of five new thematic working groups to be launched in 2013. Since…

magnifying glass_IRM image (1)_0.jpg The Open Government Partnership’s Independent Reporting Mechanism recently released Public Comment Versions of the Progress Reports from the 8 founding countries of OGP. It is now pleased to release a Public Comment Version of the raw…

Recognizing that good ideas come from everywhere, one of OGP’s top priorities is to find practical ways to share experiences and inspiration across the partnership. That is why we are extremely excited to be formally launching five new thematic working…

1280px-Jakarta_Panorama.jpg Laporan IRM OGP Indonesia untuk mendapatkan komentar publik telah diterbitkan. Sebagai negara yang sedang bertumbuh (emerging country), Indonesia menaruh rencana aksi yang cukup ambisius, meski hanya 5 dari action plan yang selesai sesuai kerangka waktu, dengan 7 lainnya sedang…

1280px-Jakarta_Panorama.jpg Indonesia’s OGP IRM report to obtain public comments has been publishing. As an emerging country, Indonesia drafted a pretty ambitious action plan, although only 5 of 12 actions were completed within the time frame, while the other 7 commitments…

One of the many reasons I look forward to the Open Government Partnership Summit in London is the opportunity to focus attention around open contracting. At first glance, open contracting – the movement to make public contracts available, accessible, comparable,…

Screen Shot 2013-09-08 at 07.18.28.png In a couple of days, the British Prime Minister David Cameron will be speaking at the Open Government Partnership event in London, and the question is: will he follow through on his statement made at…

SummitLogo1.png Money in politics. Intrusive government surveillance of the Internet. Personal privacy and media freedoms under threat. All of these issues sit at the frontier of the open government agenda. And virtually none of them are currently present in the…

Ireland.jpg We caught up with Denis Parfenov and Martin Wallace, two of the lead initiators of the campaign for Ireland to join the OGP. We asked them to share their reflections on the experience to date, and to share lessons,…