There is a great deal of flexibility in defining the individual National Action Plans that are at the heart of the Open Government Partnership. The ‘rules of the game’  of the OGP are not to lay out a single formula…

The late President John Atta Mills signed Ghana up to the OGP in September 2011, after which there was a prolonged period of inertia. It took a long time for the information to trickle down to the relevant ministry. ‘The initiative…

It’s a well known fact that summer brings out the revolutionaries. As the temperature rises, so does the level of rhetoric demanding social change: “We need a transparency revolution, so citizens can see exactly where and how taxes, aid and…

The government of the Republic of Moldova embarked on its e-Transformation agenda in 2010. This agenda involves a commitment to implementing Information Communication Technologies (ICT) with the aim of transforming the economy and governance. This will be achieved by driving…

In my previous post on the Open Government Partnership website, I posed the question: ‘Is Ireland closing the door on Open Government?’ At that time I expressed the view that Ireland’s government was uninterested in the benefits of open government.…

This post originally appeared on open up. I worry that civil society advocates working on Open Government Partnership are making a tactical mistake. There has been a lot of activity - rightly - around which OGP countries should be 'in…

Graphics: Merijn Bram Rutgers The Centre for Budget Monitoring and Citizen Participation is a Dutch organization founded in December 2011. The foundation is the result of a co-operation between active citizens and social workers from the Netherlands and INESC from…

This interview, conducted by Helen Crane, originally appeared on the Guardian's Public Leaders Network. You joined the Cabinet Office as director of open data and transparency in January. What will be your biggest challenge?  Promoting open data on the international…

El Mecanismo de Revisión Independiente (The Independent Reporting Mechanism, IRM) de la Alianza de Gobierno Abierto (Open Government Partnership, OGP), busca implementar un plan de investigación a nivel local en todos los países participantes del OGP, con el objetivo de…

The IRM of the Open Government Partnership (OGP)  carries out national-level research in each OGP participating country. The research tracks development and implementation of OGP action plans and individual commitments within the plan. In doing so, it aims to promote…

With the vast progress made in the sectors like food production, medicine, and communications in the postwar years, it is surprising to note that there has been much less improvement in the openness of government. This is a problem that…

On 29th May 2013, an African Conference on Open Government Partnership (OGP) took place at Serena Beach Hotel in Mombasa Kenya, under the theme of “Taking OGP Forward in Africa”. The OGP Initiative was started in September 2011, seeking to increase openness in government practices…