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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="480"] Screenshot of the African Voices series. Watch the videos at the links provided throughout the blog.[/caption]Rakesh Rajani, head of Twaweza, was interviewed by CNN and appeared on this week’s African Voices show. A civil society co-chair…
The OGP Europe Regional Meeting takes place May 8-9 in Dublin. For those of you unable to be in Ireland, some sessions can be watched live. Access details can be found below. We also welcome your input in real time via…
Bali summit.jpg This post originally appeared on the Open Data Research Network and has been republished with permission from the author. The plenary room of Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center was jam-packed at 845 in the morning, with representatives from…
The role of the OGP Steering Committee - consisting of 9 representatives from government and 9 from civil society - is "to develop, promote and safeguard the values, principles and interests of the OGP. It also establishes the core ideas,…
31 countries will participate in the first Open Government Partnership Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on May 6-7, hosted by the Government of Indonesia in Bali. For a region with over 60% of the world’s population, the conference is a tremendous opportunity…
At the beginning of next week Indonesia will host the first OGP Steering Committee Meeting of 2014. This ministerial level meeting will take place on the days before the Asia Pacific Regional Meeting and has a packed agenda. What should…
Dublin page.jpg Open government advocates sometimes struggle to offer a compelling vision of what they stand for. Too often the esoteric jargon around the issues obscures the fundamentals of an open society, in which civil society has space to…
The nomination phase for new OGP Civil Society Steering Committee members is now open (and will run to June 15). If you know somebody or have the ability to engage strategically and effectively at the global level with senior government…
The last couple of months have been quite an interesting time for those advocating for open government in Italy. The Italian government officially began participating in OGP in September 2011 and developed its first two-year action plan in early 2012…
OGP’s Independent Reporting Mechanism is proud to release a beta version of the data from the first 43 IRM assessments. The release comes on the eve of the OGP Steering Committee Meeting (in Bali, Indonesia), the OGP Asia Regional Meeting…
When: Wednesday 30th April 2014; 9AM-10AM EST The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is launching an annual awards program to recognize excellence among participating countries and civil society organizations. The Open Government Awards will celebrate a different theme each year. For…
For immediate release France becomes 64th country to join the Open Government Partnership Paris – At the Paris Conference on Open Data and Open Government, Minister Marylise Lebranchu today announced that France is to join the Open Government Partnership (OGP). …
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Every few years, an emergency arrives and governments move quickly to deal with it. How do we ensure that tech sovereignty rules aren’t used as a tool of repression through the tightening of civic space?
