Germany's official policy on transparency and accountability is lacking commitment and leadership. Disappointed by the political elites, the community is countinuously trying to make the case for true open government as a means to achieving digital democracy. However, the game…

The Hungarian government published its draft action at the end of January. While it was developed in cooperation with CSO participants, the final draft does not contain but a few elements of the NGOs’ suggestions - its major part is…

The 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…

The implementation of open government principles in Indonesia is unique because of the country’s structure as a unitary-decentralized state. As a result, openness has to be promoted both at the national and local levels. OGI Regional Pilot Projects, an initiative…

The Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC), in collaboration with the World Bank Institute, has organized a video conference for civil society organizations (CSOs) from the five Open Government Partnership (OGP) countries in Africa (Ghana, Liberia, Kenya, Tanzania and South…

Janice Charette, associate secretary to the cabinet, Government of Canada, talks about integrity in public service. The degree to which public servants are held in high esteem, she says, depends on their own high integrity, transparency and accountability. They must…

Participatory budgeting -  which involves local people when making decisions about how public money is spent on specific projects -  has proved popular with voters and is here to stay. Our certainty about that comes at least in part from…

As one of the founding members and the current supporting co-chair of Open Government Partnership, Indonesia has its own experiences dealing with the issues of opening its government. This blog post explores the unique situations and dynamics of open government…

By Linda Frey, OGP Support Unit Executive Director On January 2nd I started as Executive Director of the Open Government Partnership Support Unit.  Quite a mouthful, huh?  Most of my family members still have only a vague sense of what this…

  As many colleagues and friends know, I'm not a huge fan of traditional multilateral organizations given their historic high-effort, low-return ratio. Having worked in and around some for a number of years, I grew weary of the rhetoric not always (or ever?) matching…

The City of Vienna was the first public agency in a German speaking country to develop an Open Government Initative and to commit itself to the concept of Open Data – an open and transparent system that makes city data available to…

On January 11-12, USAID G-3 Program (Good Governance in Georgia) organized the civil society forum (see the list of participants and the agenda) about Georgia’s participation in Open Government Partnership gathering some 25 representatives of NGO-s and government, as well…