Carleton University undergraduate students in Ottawa, Canada, are studying the link between communication and open government. In the class, the students examine how communication can be used to improve governance and to foster a more collaborative relationship between governments and…

Carleton University undergraduate students in Ottawa, Canada, are studying the link between communication and open government. In the class, the students examine how communication can be used to improve governance and to foster a more collaborative relationship between governments and…

It is never easy to set the limits of citizens’ engagement in participatory policymaking. The sky is usually too high, but a useful approach is: “consult early, consult often”. But how early is early, and how often is often –…

Corruption has always been a force to contend with. The work done by anti-corruption champions and reformers has made significant progress over time and created new global norms. Yet much remains to be done. Every time a new laundromat scandal…

By the end of 2019, the Open Government Partnership aims for at least 30% of OGP members  to take concrete gender actions, like more ambitious gender commitments and more inclusive co-creation processes. Later this month, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative…

Nuevas características del plan de acción de OGP de Ucrania   Según el más reciente informe de Freedom House, World Report, Ucrania es considerada una democracia parcialmente libre. Aunque el nivel de confianza de los ciudadanos en las instituciones de…

Read how Ukraine aligned their 2018-2020 OGP action plan with the Sustainable Development Goals.

This May, the Government of Canada (GoC) and Open Government Partnership (OGP) will convene the 6th OGP Summit in Ottawa, bringing nearly 100 national and local member governments of OGP and their civil society counterparts together to discuss the opportunities…

Today, we must consolidate the Open Government Partnership (OGP) as an effective platform to close the economic and opportunity gap. This is one of the main challenges that contemporary democracies are facing, especially in Latin America, the world’s most unequal…

Hoy la Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto (OGP por sus siglas en inglés) debe consolidarse como una plataforma útil para reducir las desigualdades económicas y de oportunidades. Este es uno de los grandes retos que enfrentan las democracias contemporáneas y…

In its last National Action Plan, France committed to 21 engagements for a more transparent and collaborative government. The Yellow Vests movement proves (once again) that it is urgent to implement our engagements with the Open Government Partnership to improve…

We are making it! In the Basque Country (or Euskadi in Basque), we are implementing an action plan at different institutional levels. It’s not easy. More than a local government, we are a group of institutions with various degrees of…