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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…

By OGP Support Unit, UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub and the Asian Development Bank Ensuring the provision of good quality public services is an essential function of government and critical to the lives of citizens. Experience and evidence built up over…

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…

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…

Earlier this year, civil society members of the OGP Steering Committee (SC) put forth an ambitious set of goals we wanted to accomplish together as a Partnership, building on the direction of OGP’s new strategic plan. We identified key challenges…

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)…

    This post talks about some of the things I’ve been working on over the last five months, my initial thoughts about the Open Government network and forum in Scotland and invites you to support me in building this…

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…

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…