To sustain the benefits of the OGP initiative under its local pilot program, the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) and its civil society partners prepared its second local action plan, comprised of potentially high impact open government commitments. This action plan…

Inese Kušķe, Public Administration Policy Department, the State Chancellery of the Republic of Latvia, is responsible for elaboration of the Whistleblowing Law adopted by the Parliament on 11 October 2018. Inese Kušķe is a consultant for the Department For Public Administration Policy…

We are making it! In the Basque Country (or Euskadi in Basque), we are implementing an action plan at different institutional levels. It’s not easy. More than a local government, we are a group of institutions with various degrees of…

On November 25, 1960, the bodies of three sisters, Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal Reyes were found at the bottom of a cliff in the Dominican Republic. Murdered for their outspoken advocacy, the sisters and their driver had been…

Cuando establecemos mecanismos para solicitar retroalimentación ciudadana, solemos operar bajo el supuesto que los ciudadanos (una gran diversidad ciudadanos, tanto los que tienen poder como los que no) efectivamente estarán dispuestos a ofrecer su retroalimentación. Como ciudadano, ¿para qué tomarse…

¿Cómo hacemos para recapturar la agenda anticorrupción que ha sido tomada por líderes populistas?Yo creo que no han capturado a la agenda, lo que capturaron es la narrativa. Uno tiene que explicar y mantener claro que una cosa es hablar…

When we set up a way of collecting citizens’ feedback, too often there’s a big assumption we are making. We assume that the citizen – indeed, a diverse range of citizens – those who have power and those who do…

What can we do to retake the anti-corruption agenda, captured by populist leaders? I don’t think the agenda was captured, what is captured is the narrative. We need to make clear that it is one thing to talk about corruption,…

Opening up governance activities to citizen participation is slowly, but surely, becoming the norm, thanks to the Open Government Partnership (OGP). Aided with computer technology, government entities have established mechanisms for citizen feedback in the hope of using them as…

Reflections from the OGP Asia Pacific Regional Meeting 2018, Seoul, South Korea I arrived at the Westin Chosun Hotel in Seoul, South Korea, the official venue of the 2018 OGP Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting on November 4, a day before the…

The OGP Asia-Pacific meeting from the 5-6th of November 2018 in Seoul, South Korea gave prominence in bringing in new frontiers to open government, most notably the voice of the youth in the region. The same sentiment was also expressed…

Access to justice and legal empowerment are increasingly viewed as essential elements of open government. They’re vital components for participation and inclusion. The Tbilisi Global Summit included enthusiasm for justice and open government not present in previous meetings; multiple sessions…