Presentación       Desde el 2014, el Paraguay dio un gran paso sobre acceso ciudadano a la información pública con la promulgación de la Ley 5282/14 “De libre acceso ciudadano a la información pública y transparencia…

Since 2014, Paraguay has taken big steps toward access to information by enacting Act 5282/14 of “Access to public information and government transparency”, which came into effect in 2015. Rules of operation 3064/15 were published that same year. This regulatory…

How did you get involved in working in the transparency and accountability field? Was there a driving force behind your interest? I am originally from Sierra Leone, and as you know, this is a country that has been through a…

Everyone knows that implementation of commitments is at the core of the Open Government Partnership (OGP)’s mission for transformational reforms. However, more than a third of commitments reviewed to date by the Independent Reporting Mechanism have not been implemented. For…

Sanjay Pradhan – Opening Panel Remarks at GPSA Forum 2017 This is a tale of two partnerships – the Global Partnership of Social Accountability (GPSA) and the Open Government Partnership (OGP).  Both had their origins in 2011.  And they had…

Hace algunas semanas, OGP inició una campaña a favor de la reconstrucción de la confianza en el gobierno que inició con un evento en la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas donde lanzamos el documento: La Lucha por Recobrar la…

A few weeks ago, OGP began a sustained campaign on rebuilding trust in government, kicking it off with an event at UNGA where we launched Trust: The Fight to Win it Back, and where leaders from government and civil society…

Hello everyone! If you haven’t been following our blog, we recently organized the Open & Shut Conference, where we brought together a group of experts and open data practitioners to discuss the challenges and opportunities posed by open data in…

Participatory budgeting (PB) empowers citizens to allocate portions of public budgets in a way that best fits the needs of the people. In turn, proponents expect PB to improve citizens’ lives in important ways, by expanding their participation in politics,…

English Version » Con el objetivo de promover y aumentar la transparencia en el proceso de seguimiento de los Planes de Acción de Gobierno Abierto, facilitar la creación de informes de autoevaluación a través de procesos descentralizados de reporte y…

Consistent with the efforts of having an open government, the Open Government Indonesia National Secretariat carried out the OpenGovJam on September 30th. With the topic of “Government Digitalisation: Transforming the Public Services and Interactions”, OpenGovJam aimed to maximise the potential…

Si trazamos una línea recta en un mapa, es muy fácil conectar Ecuador con Tanzania, están casi a la misma altura. Ambos países forman parte de lo que se considera el Sur Global, países en vías de desarrollo con sus…