In 2024, sixty-five general elections will take place all over the world, including India, Mexico, Indonesia, and the United States. In past years, the underinvestment in safeguards by big tech companies could have contributed to allowing for misinformation and disinformation to run rampant and negatively impact democratic outcomes and human rights, with disproportionate harms in global majority countries.

How citizens of the city of Brussels, Blegium creatively leveraged institutional shortcomings to create a new space for political expression free from the usual partisan logics.

The Open Government Partnership (OGP) and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) have much in common. These global multi-stakeholder initiatives both aim to deepen open governance and transparency and share a number of strategic and thematic objectives. With more than 30 shared member countries, they offer a powerful platform to drive positive governance outcomes.

In recent years, the open government agenda has taken on increasing relevance in mining public policy based on the implementation of reforms, regulations, and tools focused on transparency and participatory dialogue...

In this month's Faces of Open Government feature, meet Liia Hänni, a trailblazer in open government and e-democracy.

In challenging times, the Open Contracting Partnership seeks transformative ideas for open government. They prioritize positive outcomes, combat corruption, and drive impactful initiatives. Join their workshop at the OGP Global Summit in Tallinn to be part of this transformative movement.

To make public participation meaningful and inclusive, we need to synthesize knowledge, make it easier for reformers to connect with the right experts and use participation to solve big public problems.

In this month’s issue of Faces of Open Government, Cielo D. Magno, Undersecretary for the Department of Finance’s Fiscal Policy and Monitoring Group, shares her insights on how openness can uniquely impact the extractives industry, women, and government.

This September, Estonia will host the 8th OGP Global Summit. Explore Estonia’s development through six action plans, and how the government has been able to institutionalize co-creation, public participation, transparency and openness at the local level.

The open government community is more active than ever in Québec, Canada! This effervescence is the fruit of many years of efforts to establish a legal framework for open government, form partnerships with civil society, and implement appropriate technological solutions.

Arantza Otaolea from the Bilbao Women's Council and co-president of OGP Euskadi, and Mikel Barturen from Sareen Sarea, an association that groups the networks of entities of the social sector, are participants in OGP Euskadi's civil society forum. In this interview, they share why citizen participation is fundamental to open government.  

With the rise of a strong open contracting community in Asia, OGP and the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP) launched the Asia-Pacific cohort of the Open Government Leadership Collaborative. Learn how the cohort provided opportunities for reformers to channel innovation.