OGP in 2013
After a burst of activity around the time of the London Summit, I’m afraid it has been way too long since I’ve posted on the OGP blog. I now have a good excuse to check in. Today we are publishing…
After a burst of activity around the time of the London Summit, I’m afraid it has been way too long since I’ve posted on the OGP blog. I now have a good excuse to check in. Today we are publishing…
Website www.budzeti.ba has been launched - Civil society organizations, journalists and citizens do not have appropriate access to public data - An ad hoc coalition of non-governmental organizations that advocates Open Government Partnership has been established An Open Data event…
The Open Government Partnership’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) is in the process of publishing 35 progress reports on the group of countries that joined OGP at the Brasilia Summit in 2012 - known as Cohort 2. IRM progress reports are designed to…
Spain anti-corruption.png The anticorruption reports published by the EU at the beginning of February confirmed the worry that many Europeans had about the perceived levels of corruption in Europe: Eurobarometer survey results showed that three quarters (76%) of Europeans think…
UK OGP NAP Launch.jpg Read about how the UK's 2013-15 National Action Plan was developed, the benefits, and what we learnt:http://www.opengovernment.org.uk/national-action-plan/story-of-the-uk-national-action-plan-2013-15/ New laws, standards, policies, processes and technologies are critical for opening up government, but arguably just as (if not…
Governance and open government are prerequisites of development. The concept of such government allows all layers of the society to be able to enjoy the entire development process in order to achieve welfare and justice, which is the goal of the…
Governments the world over are struggling with the extent of the global surveillance revelations and the deep shock this has left everyone in. The level of trust in government has declined to new lows. How can citizens trust their governments…
For any government to move forward towards a better democratic system, it must find scalable ways to work alongside stakeholders and ensure citizen participation in the policymaking process. The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is an international, multilateral initiative launched in 2011 to…
OGP guide.jpg Photo Credit: By The Cabinet Office "OGP Annual Summit London 2013" via Flickr. As the Annual Summit of the Open Government Partnership was getting closer and closer, the call for organizing local events or the so-called “remote hubs” in…
One of the privileges of our work in the Transparency and Accountability initiative is the opportunity to bring together experts from every sector working on opening government. At OGP’s London summit, T/AI helped to organize a number of events, including…
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