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Sunset in Dublin hdr.jpg Photo credit: Sunset in Dublin hdr by Edgaras via Flickr. The Europe Regional Conference for OGP will take place in Dublin May 8-9, hosted by the Irish Government.The planning committee for the conference are inviting ideas…
EPPlenaryvote.jpg This article originally appeared on Access Info Europe and has been republished with permission from the author. Access Info Europe has welcomed the decision[1] by the European Parliament to bring greater transparency to its decision making by recording and publishing…
Recognising that good ideas come from everywhere, the Asia Pacific Regional Conference presents an opportunity to highlight innovative reforms in transparency, accountability and public participation that engance the state of open government across countries in the Asia region. Seven individuals…
Poland blog.png This piece was co-authored by Kalina Michocka. In 2013 the Polish organization Jeden Świat and the Dutch Centre for Budget Monitoring and Citizen Participation started a project to introduce budget monitoring in the cities of Konin and Kalisz in…
Oscars.jpeg This post originally appeared on ONE.org and has been republished with permission from the author. The upcoming Academy Awards is a time to celebrate the best films, actors and behind-the-scenes players in Hollywood – so why not do the…
Data Days Feb 2014.jpg Data Days 2014, a three-day global conference on Open Data, Open Innovation and Open Government just came to an end on Wednesday evening. Central to the event was the award ceremony for an App competition…
After a burst of activity around the time of the London Summit, I’m afraid it has been way too long since I’ve posted on the OGP blog. I now have a good excuse to check in. Today we are publishing…
Website www.budzeti.ba has been launched - Civil society organizations, journalists and citizens do not have appropriate access to public data - An ad hoc coalition of non-governmental organizations that advocates Open Government Partnership has been established An Open Data event…
The Open Government Partnership’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) is in the process of publishing 35 progress reports on the group of countries that joined OGP at the Brasilia Summit in 2012 - known as Cohort 2. IRM progress reports are designed to…
Spain anti-corruption.png The anticorruption reports published by the EU at the beginning of February confirmed the worry that many Europeans had about the perceived levels of corruption in Europe: Eurobarometer survey results showed that three quarters (76%) of Europeans think…
UK OGP NAP Launch.jpg Read about how the UK's 2013-15 National Action Plan was developed, the benefits, and what we learnt:http://www.opengovernment.org.uk/national-action-plan/story-of-the-uk-national-action-plan-2013-15/ New laws, standards, policies, processes and technologies are critical for opening up government, but arguably just as (if not…
Governance and open government are prerequisites of development. The concept of such government allows all layers of the society to be able to enjoy the entire development process in order to achieve welfare and justice, which is the goal of the…
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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?
