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Participatory budgeting -  which involves local people when making decisions about how public money is spent on specific projects -  has proved popular with voters and is here to stay. Our certainty about that comes at least in part from…

As one of the founding members and the current supporting co-chair of Open Government Partnership, Indonesia has its own experiences dealing with the issues of opening its government. This blog post explores the unique situations and dynamics of open government…

By Linda Frey, OGP Support Unit Executive Director On January 2nd I started as Executive Director of the Open Government Partnership Support Unit.  Quite a mouthful, huh?  Most of my family members still have only a vague sense of what this…

  As many colleagues and friends know, I'm not a huge fan of traditional multilateral organizations given their historic high-effort, low-return ratio. Having worked in and around some for a number of years, I grew weary of the rhetoric not always (or ever?) matching…

The City of Vienna was the first public agency in a German speaking country to develop an Open Government Initative and to commit itself to the concept of Open Data – an open and transparent system that makes city data available to…

On January 11-12, USAID G-3 Program (Good Governance in Georgia) organized the civil society forum (see the list of participants and the agenda) about Georgia’s participation in Open Government Partnership gathering some 25 representatives of NGO-s and government, as well…

Coming out of the regional meeting of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) held in Santiago, Chile, from January 10-11, it’s clear that the movement to open the world’s parliaments has a number of allies outside of civil society and parliamentary monitoring…

Alejandro Ferreiro: "Hemos sido capaces de definir como país lo que queremos en esta materia" Video of Alejandro Ferreiro: "Hemos sido capaces de definir como país lo que queremos en esta materia"   En el Parlamento chileno y la Comisión…

Federico Allendes, presidente de Pro-Acceso: "Los avances en transparencia en Chile han sido notables." Federico Allendes: "Los avances en transparencia en Chile han sido notables" Video of Federico Allendes: "Los avances en transparencia en Chile han sido notables" Como parte…

The Open Government Partnership Networking Mechanism is pleased to start the new year with a Webinar on Codes of Practice for Consultations taking place on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 10:00 AM EST. We hope you can join us. Please see the details below.…