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OGP Rules of the Game

This post originally appeared on open up. I worry that civil society advocates working on Open Government Partnership are making a tactical mistake. There has been a lot of activity - rightly - around which OGP countries should be 'in…

Budget monitoring in an Amsterdam neighborhood

Graphics: Merijn Bram Rutgers The Centre for Budget Monitoring and Citizen Participation is a Dutch organization founded in December 2011. The foundation is the result of a co-operation between active citizens and social workers from the Netherlands and INESC from…

Open education paves the way for open governments

With the vast progress made in the sectors like food production, medicine, and communications in the postwar years, it is surprising to note that there has been much less improvement in the openness of government. This is a problem that…

Uganda, why not join the Open Government Partnership?

On 29th May 2013, an African Conference on Open Government Partnership (OGP) took place at Serena Beach Hotel in Mombasa Kenya, under the theme of “Taking OGP Forward in Africa”. The OGP Initiative was started in September 2011, seeking to increase openness in government practices…

Interoperabilidad: esencia del Open Government y de la Smart City

El pasado viernes día 10 de mayo, el Departamento de Ingeniería Informática de la Universidad Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona celebró un seminario sobre Open Government y Smart Cities. En este seminario -uno de los primeros en abordar especialmente las claves del Open Government también…

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