PressA call to action for making government open and transparent
The Hill (blog)
Remember President Obama's call to action on making governments open and transparent? OpenTheGovernment.org, which has coordinated United States participation in the Open Government Partnership the president touted, just released its evaluation ...
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Tech in Asia
"Open Government Indonesia" Wants to Put Public Services Online
Tech in Asia
Meet Open Government Indonesia. It is part of the Open...
Cape Town kicks off Code4Democracy civic hackathon
The Media Online
ODADI hopes to build on South Africa's early support for the Open Government Partnership, by inspiring a grassroots data-driven movement in South Africa, giving ordinary citizens the tools and information they need to make better informed choices about ...
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Ukraine Makes Another Step Toward Transparency
U.S. Politics Today
Ukraine committed to Open Government Partnership right at the time when the initiative was launched by the eight founding states: Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, South Africa, the UK, and the USA. Ukraine's efforts in the OGP framework ...
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White House to open We the People platform
FierceGovernmentIT
The effort will fulfill one of its objectives under the National Action Plan it revealed as a member of the international Open Government Partnership. One OGP member country, Latvia, plans to use the platform as soon as it's available, said Vein June ...
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Government Technology
S.F. Mayor Lee Launches U.S. Mayors Open Government Innovation Partnership
California Newswire (press release)
/California Newswire/ -- On Monday, S.F. Mayor Edwin M. Lee, as Chair of the...
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.
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.
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...
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....
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...
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...
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) –
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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, ...
Armenian deputy MFA presented the OGP program during the session devoted to the South Caucasus.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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