This blog post originally appeared on Salua Nassabay's blog and has been republished with permission from the author.  What is the first thing you do when you intend to execute a new project? You, of course conduct some research. In a…

How open is our administration and governance in Denmark? "Very open," you're probably thinking. But is it so? Do you for example know exactly what your municipality has registered about you? Or do you know how to access the information they have? Can you…

Hvor åben er vores administration og regeringsførelse egentligt i Danmark? ”Meget åben”, tænker du sikkert. Men er den så det? Ved du for eksempel præcist, hvad din kommune har registreret om dig? Eller ved du, hvordan du får adgang til…

This post originally appeared on Martin Tisne's blog Open Up and has been republished with permission from the author.  Exciting Open Government Partnership (OGP) related development: a ‘private sector council’ has been created to develop recommendations for the OGP Steering Committee on engaging…

Spain anti-corruption.png The anticorruption reports published by the EU at the beginning of February confirmed the worry that many Europeans had about the perceived levels of corruption in Europe: Eurobarometer survey results showed that three quarters (76%) of Europeans think…

Governance and open government are prerequisites of development.  The concept of such government allows all layers of the society to be able to enjoy the entire development process in order to achieve welfare and justice, which is the goal of the…

Governments the world over are struggling with the extent of the global surveillance revelations and the deep shock this has left everyone in. The level of trust in government has declined to new lows. How can citizens trust their governments…

For any government to move forward towards a better democratic system, it must find scalable ways to work alongside stakeholders and ensure citizen participation in the policymaking process. The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is an international, multilateral initiative launched in 2011 to…

  Following the Irish government’s letter of intent to join the OGP in May 2013, a tender was issued for an organisation to undertake the initial civil society (CS) consultation process on behalf of the Irish government. Transparency International Ireland…

One of the many reasons I look forward to the Open Government Partnership Summit in London is the opportunity to focus attention around open contracting. At first glance, open contracting – the movement to make public contracts available, accessible, comparable,…

SummitLogo1.png Money in politics. Intrusive government surveillance of the Internet. Personal privacy and media freedoms under threat. All of these issues sit at the frontier of the open government agenda. And virtually none of them are currently present in the…

Zambia 123.jpg On September 25-27, 2013, approximately 150 representatives from key stakeholders groups-government, civil society, media, private sector, academia, donors and regional and international organizations met in Lusaka, Zambia to reflect on the domestication of the African Platform on Access…