The mySociety International team recently had an opportunity to meet with Mzalendo founders in Kenya. As you likely know, Mzalendo is the Kenyan Parliamentary Monitoring site similar to TheyWorkForYou which mySociety has helped re-build since June 2011 with support from…
After the photo opportunities, early morning swims and talk of famous blues musicians last week in Lough Erne, the temptation is to think it’s all over for the UK’s Presidency of the G8. David Cameron staked his political capital on…
Devolution of government to the counties in Kenya requires civil society to be ever more vigilant if the objectives of devolution have to be achieved. This vigilance is especially required because Kenyan citizens have invested their hopes in these devolved…
Open government is one of the key strategic initiatives of the government of Indonesia. As an incubator for new and innovative ideas, the UKP4, also known as the President’s Delivery Unit (PDU), is responsible for ensuring that all key promises…
Photo credit: "Round the Table: G8 leaders" by G8 UK Presidency via Flickr. Illusions were shattered at last week’s G8 summit as transparency took centre stage. Leaders from large industrialised nations recognised the need for governments to be open and…
There is a great deal of flexibility in defining the individual National Action Plans that are at the heart of the Open Government Partnership. The ‘rules of the game’ of the OGP are not to lay out a single formula…
The late President John Atta Mills signed Ghana up to the OGP in September 2011, after which there was a prolonged period of inertia. It took a long time for the information to trickle down to the relevant ministry. ‘The initiative…
It’s a well known fact that summer brings out the revolutionaries. As the temperature rises, so does the level of rhetoric demanding social change: “We need a transparency revolution, so citizens can see exactly where and how taxes, aid and…
The government of the Republic of Moldova embarked on its e-Transformation agenda in 2010. This agenda involves a commitment to implementing Information Communication Technologies (ICT) with the aim of transforming the economy and governance. This will be achieved by driving…
In my previous post on the Open Government Partnership website, I posed the question: ‘Is Ireland closing the door on Open Government?’ At that time I expressed the view that Ireland’s government was uninterested in the benefits of open government.…
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