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More than 4,800,000 users have been assisted in judicial procedures and services through LegalApp, a Colombian initiative of the Ministry of Justice and Law. This initiative is part of the second action plan within the framework of the Open Government…

Más de 4.800.000 usuarios orientados en trámites y servicios judiciales a través de esta iniciativa colombiana del Ministerio de Justicia y de Derecho, que hace parte del segundo plan de acción para la alianza del gobierno abierto (AGA) Colombia, calificada…

Originally posted on opengovernment.org.uk. Last year, Scotland was accepted to be part of the Pioneer Tier of the Open Government Partnership, a pilot program consisting of 15 subnational governments with action plans to open up government throughout 2017. This handed…

Originally posted by the organization Defending the Human Right to a Fair Trial  on FairTrials.org. Letters of Rights can have a really positive impact on the understanding of rights by people arrested or detained by the police, but are they adequate and being used…

  By the Global Legal Empowerment Network Team “Open government is really about this partnership, about civil society organizations and government working together to collaborate for the benefit of citizens and communities on the ground.” Nomboniso Nangu Maqubela    …

When people think of open government, they frequently think of open data, transparency, and anti-corruption - not necessarily a fair and responsible justice system. However, open government approaches are increasingly being used around the world to improve access to justice…

Last December, during the 4th Open Government Summit in Paris, more than 20 contributors from governments, civil society organizations and multilateral organizations endorsed commitment 13 of the Paris Declaration, prioritizing improved access to justice through a focus on measurement and…

Argentina presentó su Tercer Plan de Acción Nacional de Gobierno Abierto (2017-2019), resultado de los esfuerzos consolidados en la Estrategia Nacional de Gobierno Abierto, que propone transformar los modelos tradicionales de gestión pública y la relación del Estado con la…

As a result of the efforts surrounding the Open Government National Strategy, which aims to transform the business-as-usual public administration models and the relationship between the State and the citizenry, Argentina presented its third Open Government National Action Plan (2017-2019).…

Together with its broad constituency of advocates and champions across the country, the Philippines will officially launch its 4TH National Action Plan (NAP) on 15 August. Two significant milestones have been reached at this point - the launch of the…

As citizens, we rely on public services being accessible and reliable - to give us an education, keep us healthy, make our communities safe places to be, and ensure our basic needs are met. Public services are critical to an…