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  • (www.voanews.com)
    May 04, 2012

     
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  • (The Independent)
    May 03, 2012

    Slowly but surely we are seeing this change. Last year, we saw a small number of governments including the United Kingdom join the Open Government Partnership to promote openness and improved engagement with their citizens. The efforts of this partnership were stepped up at a recent conference attended by Hillary Clinton and Francis Maude and hosted by Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff. The conference saw 43 new countries join and announce their plans to increase government transparency, openness and accountability.

  • (www.pbs.org)
    Apr 30, 2012

    Hundreds of delegates from government, civil society, and business gathered in Brasilia recently for the first Open Government Partnershipmeetings since the inception of this initiative.

  • (www.theatlantic.com)
    Apr 30, 2012

    The Open Government Partnership co-chaired by the United States and Brazil, aims to fight corruption by securing concrete national action plans to fight corruption from governments. The Publish What You Pay and Publish What You Lend campaigns call on...

  • (www.state.gov)
    Apr 30, 2012

    Recognizing the actions taken to eliminate corruption, the US and the Philippines are steering committee members of the Open Government Partnership, which aims to develop norms and standards for open governance, transparency, and civil society....

  • (www.neurope.eu)
    Apr 29, 2012

    Speaking at the first high-level meeting the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in Brazil, Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri said that the government is establishing an agency, Georgia Reforms and Partnership Enterprise (GRAPE) to promote and share...

  • (dailynews.co.tz)
    Apr 29, 2012

    The occasion was the Open Government Partnership (OGP) meeting in Brasilia, Brazil, recently. The meeting — which brought together scores of top-notch world leaders, including Heads of State and Government — heard Kikwete say on Apr. 18 that the...

  • (www.guardian.co.uk)
    Apr 25, 2012

    It believes this transparency will make government itself more effective, more accountable and more in touch with the people it serves, and will also drive economic prosperity. As co-chair of the international Open Government Partnership (OGP) –

  • (www.guardian.co.uk)
    Apr 23, 2012

     Governments around the world are using policy to make financial data more accessible to their citizens, in response to growing demand for more open and transparent government. At last week's Open Government Partnership in Brazil, politicians from ...

  • (www.voanews.com)
    Apr 23, 2012

    Civil society also plays a key role in the Open Government Partnership, an initiative President Barack Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched in September 2011. The Open Government Partnership has grown in the last eight months to become ...

  • (techpresident.com)
    Apr 23, 2012

    Last week the Open Government Partnership(OGP) met in Brasilia. Roughly 1200 registered participants from 60 countries, including 200 from civil society groups, met to share the work they are doing to make their ...

  • (techpresident.com)
    Apr 23, 2012

    Last Wednesday, the Spanish government presented a draft freedom of information law at theOpen Government Partnership conference in Brasilia, but faced strong criticism coming from civil society and NGOs, voiced by human rights NGO Access Info.

  • (www.scoop.co.nz)
    Apr 23, 2012

    Thank you very much, and it's a great pleasure to be here at this first high-level conference of the Open Government Partnership. And I want to commend and thank Brazil, in particular President Rousseff, for the leadership that they have given to this ...

  • (www.sundayszaman.com)
    Apr 21, 2012

    Last year, we saw a small number of governments, including the United States and Turkey, join the Open Government Partnership to promote openness and improved engagement with their citizens. The efforts of this partnership will be stepped up, ...

  • (http://times.am/)
    Apr 20, 2012

    Armenian deputy MFA presented the OGP program during the session devoted to the South Caucasus. 

  • (AllAfrica.com)
    Apr 20, 2012

    In his keynote address at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) forum, the President told the audience that of late the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) reports were a good source of news and debate in media and National Assembly.

  • (times.am)
    Apr 19, 2012

    On April 17-18 the annual summit of the “Open Government Partnership” initiative took place. Brazilian President Dilma Russef and the US State Secretary Hilary Clinton opened the conference, press and information department of Armenian Ministry of ...

  • (allafrica.com)
    Apr 19, 2012

    In his keynote address at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) forum, the President told the audience that of late the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) reports were a good source of news and debate in media and National Assembly.

  • (www.guardian.co.uk)
    Apr 19, 2012

    Where next for the open government partnership? That was the question hanging in the air over the conference centre in Brasilia on Wednesday evening as the politicians and their entourages packed up and went home after two days of intense discussion ...

  • (The Guardian)
    Apr 19, 2012

    As the UK prepares to co-chair the Open Government Partnership, Francis Maude is determined that Britain will reap the benefits of making public data open to all.

  • (http://www.globalpost.com/)
    Apr 19, 2012

    At the inaugural meeting of the Open Government Partnership in Brazil, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton details what she believes will become a new divide among nations - how open or closed their societies are.

  • (Panorama.am)
    Apr 19, 2012

    At a session dedicated to South Caucasus countries, Mr. Hovakimyan presented an Open Government Partnership Action Plan for Armenia. 

  • (Public Service)
    Apr 19, 2012

    Transparency and openess are now forcing governments "out of their comfort zone", Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said as the UK took over co-chairmanship of the Open Government Partnership from the United States.

  • (Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am)
    Apr 19, 2012

    The Open Government Partnership (OGP) international organization's annual conference was held in Brasilia on Tuesday and Wednesday. 

  • (www.publicservice.co.uk)
    Apr 19, 2012

    Transparency and openess are now forcing governments "out of their comfort zone", Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said as the UK took over co-chairmanship of the Open Government Partnership from the United States. Maude told a delegation of ...