National action plans are at the center of OGP. In order to ensure that action plans are developed according to the principles of OGP and are implemented, the OGP Steering Committee has established the OGP Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM). The…
DR. KUNTORO MANGKUSUBROTO DELIVERING HIS KEYNOTE SPEECH ON OGP “EMBRACING THE COLORS OF OPENNESS” The Government of Indonesia hosted the first Open Government Partnership (OGP) Outreach in Asia at the 5th Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) in Bali, Indonesia…
Women's Campaign International: Accelerating Change The Open Government Partnership (OGP) offers communities around the world an opportunity to make government more accountable, and help citizens combat corruption, regardless of their gender. Even in countries where women and men enjoy “equality”…
Courtesy of Boyan Yurukov During a recent visit to Bulgaria, the European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes commented on the digital development in Bulgaria - both the good and the bad. The conference she attended, Digital Agenda for…
The potential of new technology for advancing transparency and open government was the theme of the Open Up! conference on November 13th in London. Co-hosted by Omidyar Network and DFID in association with Wired magazine, the event brought together an…
This guest blog by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, was originally posted on Wired.co.uk. Originally, the acute frustration which led me to invent the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989…
Open Government Summit Rome As an Italian, I know all too well that Italy has not always been considered at the forefront of the open government movement. But things are now changing fast. The crisis which brought about new economic…
What are you doing the day after Halloween? We are hosting an Ideathon in our new OpenGov Hub from 6:30 to 830pm and you should join us. We at Global Integrity understand that many of you have half-baked ideas that…
#wewillgather is a new platform to help people organise “good things” in their local community, leveraging the power of their online social networks. The site has been running for a few weeks now so we thought it was time to…
We are delighted to announce two new members of the Open Government Partnership Support Unit team. Joseph Foti joined as Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) Program Manager earlier in October and Linda Frey joins as Executive Director early in the New…
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