The open government movement has a very real challenge: ensuring that open government efforts continue to positively transform the lives of citizens around the world. In the pursuit of true, sustainable impact from openness, contracting is a key component. Open…

 Is access to open public data a service, like education, or a right, like free speech? Services are optional Governments collect taxes and use the money to provide services to their citizens. Because tax revenue is finite, no government can…

Barometer perspective by RangiferOnTheRoof (via Flickr) Up until now, in Romania, we were familiar with the national development plans that the EU demands according to the Cohesion Policy. These national plans indicate the economic and social development discrepancies from within…

Making All Voices Count: A Grand Challenge for Development (MAVC) brings together the Department for International Development (DFID), US Agency for International Development (USAID), Omidyar Network (ON) and other funders to create a Fund in the region of US$30-35 million, to…

The events of the past two years – from Occupy movements to civil unrest and revolutions – have served to reinforce the knowledge that global governance has new paramount actors. The primacy of regular people has never been so clear,…

Does the Open Government agenda have something useful to say about corruption?  The Open Government’s working assumption is that a revolution in openness will raise confidence in governments across the board by raising levels of public participation and ensuring more…

Since Croatia applied to join the OGP in 2011 when the then government was more focused on parliamentary elections than on plans for the future, OGP related activities were run by enthusiasts from civil society organisations (CSOs, e.g. GONG ),…

A snap survey conducted by Local Interventions Group in Kavre district of Nepal predictably reveals that in average 87% of the public are unaware of the money that the government is spending in their villages for education, health and infrastructure.…