Stories

UK Prime Minister David Cameron today kicked off his country's year-long presidency of the Group of Eight Industrialised Nations by writing a letter to his counterparts. The good news for the open government movement is that it's clear that his…

The Open Government Partnership blog launched in April 2012 and has since featured 48 guest bloggers and had 13,000 unique visitors -- so we'd like to say a big thank you for your support and that we're really looking forward…

This is the second in a five part series of posts based on Q&As with selected countries and their experiences with the OGP process at the national level. This post is a Q&A with Emilene Morales Martinez, independent Regional Civil Society Coordinator…

open-right-conference-dmitry.jpg Source: RIA Novosti/Ekaterina Shtukina We are happy to share with you the information about OGP-related activity in Russia. On 12th -13th December, an open government conference took place in Moscow. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, officials from Russian federal and regional…

Source: Chris Herwig, Mapbox       In our conversations surrounding open government data, both domestically and internationally, we should be discussing best practices for making open data more open and accessible. Concretely, open data projects should include bulk data…

This is the first in a five part series of posts based on Q&As with selected countries and their experiences with the OGP process at the national level. This first post is a Q&A with Katarina Ott, Director at the…

India has joined growing number of nations that plan to use open data as a tool to promote transparency and greater citizen engagement in governance. Information is now easily accessible at the click of a mouse with the launch of…

This blog first appeared on the Huffington Post website. The movement for transparency and openness in government took decisive steps forward last week. As lead co-chair of the Open Government Partnership, the UK hosted the first ministerial level meeting in…

On Thursday October 25th 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Fundación CiGob - Development of Science and Methods of Government along with Thinknet conducted a workshop about Digital Planning, which brought together experts and referents from the public sector related to…

About 80 representatives from 16 governments, international organisations and five civil society organisations came together on 10th December, 2012 in Rome to debate at the third European Outreach Meeting of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) dedicated to Transparency, participation and…