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With the third Annual Open Government Partnership Summit fast approaching, current OGP member countries are in the process of developing their second Action Plans and future members are developing their initial commitments. In this light, we wondered how member governments…

The Open Government Partnership's Independent Reporting Mechanism releases the first in a series of reports looking at the initial cohort of eight countries that submitted OGP action plans. First up is the IRM report on South Africa, which can be found below.…

After joining the OGP in January 2012, Costa Rica took the decision to present its first National Action Plan at the OGP International Steering Committee meeting a year later in April 2013. ‘We didn’t want to rush the process. It…

The Georgian government agencies have not been very proactive in releasing relevant public information about their decisions and activities. Whenever a citizen, a journalist or a researcher wanted this information, one had to send a Freedom of Information (FOI) request…

Do you know the actual status of Open Government in Kosovo? Are you aware that in Albania the only existing Open Data platform was created by a non-governmental group? That is what, among other issues, we are exploring along our…

OGP’s unique review mechanism, the IRM, takes a proud step forward as it announces its new cohort of researchers for the countries joining OGP in 2012. The IRM tracks progress on development and implementation of OGP action plans on a…

Since  August,  2012,  BEMFAM  (Family  Welfare  in  Brazil),  a  Brazilian  NGO  focused  on  family planning,  sexual  and  reproductive  health  and  sexual  and  reproductive  rights,  has  been developing  a  project  in  partnership  with  IPPF  (International Planned Parenthood  Federation) on the Brazilian’s…

Open government principles were well entrenched within the Obama Administration by the time the Open Government Partnership was launched in September 2011. Since the first day of Obama’s presidency, in January 2009, the federal government has worked to make government…

The Open Government Partnership, National Democratic Institute, and the Congress of Chile are pleased to announce a webinar to introduce the Legislative Openness Working Group on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 9:00 am EST. We hope you can join us. Please see the details below. REGISTER for this webinar here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEx1Z3Z1WndTRVVGeUY1WTNlcnNCR0E6MA…

This post originally appeared on The Transparency and Accountability Initiative website.  Advocates inside and outside government are working hard to embrace open data practices. International bodies, governments and even rock stars have moved past the question of why we need open, shared systems of government data to…