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Progress on OGP Group Work in Mexico

The Governance Team of WRI Mexico is promoting the strengthening of a group of cities with a permanent dialogue and dynamic co-creation of knowledge and methods. These have been developed to build progress towards the integration of the main principles…

SO — What is Open Government?

This post was originally written in Hebrew and was published on the Public Knowledge Workshop (Hasadna) blog and on Medium. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about Open Data and the Desert, in which I explained that there is…

Public Call for Ideas to Strengthen OGP’s Eligibility Criteria

As you may have seen in the recently published minutes from the June working-level Steering Committee meeting, the Steering Committee has endorsed adding a small number of additional eligibility criteria (to be possibly framed as an “OGP core values” check)…

Promoting Paris in Zagreb

OGP Steering Committee members Sandra Pernar (Croatian government) and Helen Darbishire (Access Info Europe), were in action last week (10-12 July 2017) meeting with government officials in four ministries, as well as independent agencies, and civil society to promote strong…

After 600 days, whose government is it anyway?

Originally posted as an op-ed in The Citizen. Dr John Pombe Magufuli completed about one third of his first term as president of the United Republic of Tanzania in early July 2017. Most in Tanzania would agree that it has been…

Be a Part of the OGP 2017 Americas Regional Meeting in Buenos Aires

En Espanol Dear Colleagues, The Open Government Partnership 2017 Americas Regional Meeting, to be held November 21-22 in Buenos Aires, is expected to draw some two-thousand participants from OGP’s eighteen countries in the region and beyond including: senior-level government delegates,…

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