This series explores inspiring reforms by OGP members around the world, from tackling corruption through open contracting reform to addressing the challenges posed by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.
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¿Quieres leer este blog en español?At the heart of a government’s participation in the Open Government Partnership is a biannual action plan, outlining reforms to make the country more transparent, accountable and encourage citizen participation. Civil society involvement in co-creating…
Want to read this blog in English? La parte central de la participación de los gobiernos en Open Government Partnership es un plan de acción bianual, el cual describe las reformas que el país deberá impulsar para crear un país…
Want to read this blog in English? Aquí en la comunidad de gobierno abierto hablamos mucho acerca de “avanzar a pesar de los fracasos” y de “aprender de los fracasos”. Ésta es una de las razones que hacen de trabajar…
¿Quieres leer este blog en español?Here in the open government community, we talk a lot about "failing forward" or "learning from failure." This is part of what makes working for OGP so great. Governments and civil society can admit momentary…
At the recent Open Government Partnership summit in Mexico City, the OGP steering committee endorsed a new pilot program to bring subnational governments into the Partnership via an experimental two-year pilot program. As OGP steering committee members Manish Bapna, the…
The Open Government Partnership is just four years old, but already has the potential to help fight against restrictions on civil society space. It will only achieve that, however, if it helps countries develop commitments that protect civil society and…
The mandate of the current Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) will end in February 2016. The EITI Board is comprised of representatives from each Constituency engaged in the EITI – governments of supporting and implementing countries, extractive…
18 months ago we set out to develop a tool for civil society in OGP countries to assess how open and ambitious their governments were being in developing their National Action Plans. After countless drafts of questions and two rounds…
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is pleased to announce that Sanjay Pradhan has been selected to lead the organization starting mid 2016. The Open Government Partnership was launched by eight Heads of State at the UN General Assembly in 2011,…
I am a huge fan of New Year’s Eve. It is not just the parties and the fireworks. It is the chance for honest and critical reflection on the past year. And the chance to get things right in the…
Country: UkraineCommitment: Regulating Access to Communist-era ArchivesNational Action Plan: 2014-15 Access to the files of the Soviet period secret services and law enforcement agencies remains a sensitive issue. Many of the archives remain closed for researchers or difficult to access.…
Public administration is evolving towards Open Government, a new paradigm that makes use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) but also changes the processes and information management within the public sector in order to bring the government closer to the…
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