Dear friends and colleagues: In just a few days I will be stepping down from my role as the Executive Director of the OGP Support Unit.  I want to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support and…

We pledge to be more transparent at every level -- because more information on government activity should be open, timely, and freely available to the people. We pledge to engage more of our citizens in decision-making -- because it makes…

Country: Costa Rica Commitment: Public Institution Transparency Index National Action Plan: 2013-14 In Costa Rica there is no transparency index that measures all State institutions according to the same standards, nor a local body that systematically publishes reports on the…

Listen to award-winning journalist and head of the IRM South Korea research team, Geoffrey Cain, talk about the country's state of democracy and commitments he feels the South Korean government should make within the framework of OGP in order to…

In this section of the OGP newsletter, we feature open government champions both from government and civil society, and ask them about their OGP experiences. Here is what they have to say:  How does open government make a difference in…

Civic engagement is at the heart of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). In signing the Open Government Declaration, OGP members commit to engaging citizens in the development, implementation, and monitoring of their National Action Plans. As OGP is nascent, we…

The past couple of weeks I have been reading many of the 300+ submitted proposals for this year’s OGP Global Summit. At times it has felt a bit like being at the Saturday morning market full of all kinds of…

The government exchanged experiences with other countries in the region to implement the law on access to information that will benefit all Paraguayans   Paraguay passed its Access to Information (ATI) law in September 2014, which became the national ATI…

The Governance Data Alliance (GDA) is a new initiative uniting non-governmental organizations, multilateral donors, and governments who produce and consume governance data.  OGP is thrilled to be participating in this project.  As the GDA’s Vision Paper details. “The current state…

Es similar a una pupila que se ha acostumbrado a la oscuridad por días (décadas en el caso de nuestro país), y, repentinamente alguien enciende la luz. La adaptación de la visión molesta, duele inclusive. Las reacciones van desde el…

This article originally appeared on Insights, World Resources Institute. The open data movement—the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone—can drive innovation, make government and corporate activities more transparent and improve decision-making about natural resources. Global Forest…

As readers of this blog may have gleaned from the recently posted minutes of the steering committee meetings last month in South Africa, there’s a major push underway to explore ways in which OGP can engage with subnational governments around…