As public servants, disinformation and the degradation of public trust have a palpable impact on our ability to effectively serve the public. To address this, the Government of Canada developed a guidebook to provide Canadian federal public servants with an understanding of the threat disinformation presents, as well as to offer a consistent approach to navigating this growing threat.

Disinformation, online gender-based violence (GBV), and hate speech greatly impact online civic space and democratic processes. Governments should take steps to promote healthy and safe information ecosystems online while also protecting the exercise of online civic freedoms.

The right to seek and share information is a fundamental element of free expression and a core component of the freedom of association and assembly. When digital identification systems make it harder to seek information or increase the threat of surveillance and harassment, they impede these fundamental freedoms.

Access to an open and free internet is integral to individuals’ and organizations’ ability to exercise fundamental freedoms online, and to benefit from, and contribute to, digital open government initiatives.

People Powered has developed resources to help governments and civil society engage people online.

2024 has been dubbed the “year of elections”, with over four billion people expected to vote across more than 60 elections. This should be a cause for democratic celebration, but instead much of the attention is focused on the specter of democratic vulnerability and decline.

A core tenet of the OGP model is that regular feedback leads to more effective policies. For this reason, over the past two years, we (the OGP Support Unit) have continued to survey our civil society partners to learn how the OGP process is working (see past results here). Below are four takeaways from the survey results, including how they relate to the new OGP strategy. 

Read how the 2021 OGP Local Accelerator Awards, supported civil society organizations and local governments in collaboration to carry out reforms and deliver public services.

Introducing the OGP Data Dashboard - a powerful tool for unlocking evidence and examples in data.

This blog post includes provisional results of our online strategy discussions. The results will be out of date as soon as this is published. You can dig into the live results yourself at the bottom of this post. Last month…

Having served as a national researcher for Georgia from 2013 to 2019 for OGP’s Independent Reporting Mechanism, I have developed a particular interest in implementing the values of openness and accountability in local governments. From 2014-2015, Georgia implemented a series…

Discover highlights of the 2021 OGP Academy, and see what's in store for continued collaboration on open government research.