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…

En agosto, muchos miembros de la comunidad latinoamericana de datos abiertos nos reunimos en Costa Rica en el marco de Abrelatam y ConDatos. Aprovechando ese mix de talento, organizamos un espacio de entrenamiento de alto impacto para todos aquellos que…

Tenemos casos de estudio. Tenemos seis años escribiendo blogs, investigaciones y páginas web dedicadas al gobierno abierto. Tenemos miles de funcionarios públicos y reformadores de la sociedad civil trabajando en todo el mundo para crear gobiernos más transparentes, confiables y…

We’ve got case studies. We’ve got six years worth of blogs, research, and webpages dedicated to open government. We’ve got thousands of civil servants and civil society reformers working across the globe to make governments more transparent, accountable, and responsive…

Since its beginnings in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in the late 1980s, participatory budgeting (PB) has come a long way, both literally and figuratively. Today’s PB looks quite different from the original PB, which was created by a local civil society…

The concept that sold open data was: “open all the data, people will do wonderful things, and the world will be a better place”. Has open data been sold as something more simple than it actually is?Hello everyone. If you…

Originally posted on the Poverty Alliance blog for Challenge Poverty Week. It becomes clear after flicking through the pages of Poverty in Scotland that the knowledge base exists to tackle poverty. We also know this simply through the everyday response of Scotland’s third sector.…

Originally posted on Veronica Cretu's blog. Whenever there is a conversation about public administration reform, open government or citizen engagement I can’t ‘pass by’ :)! I guess this is the kind of passion one has for life, as once you…

Elections are sensitive times in Georgia, with rising media attention directed towards politicians. As a result, politicians have become more cooperative with the public, and use the opportunity to discuss critical social and political issues. This has bolstered the discourse…

On September 21, Small Media and Iran Open Data hosted the first ever Open & Shut Conference in London, looking to delve into the challenges and opportunities offered by the open data movement in closed societies around the world.Bringing together…

Participatory budgeting’s (PB) roots lie in a radical democratic project led by the leftist Workers’ Party in Porto Alegre, Brazil in the late 1980s. Radical democracy includes incorporating ordinary citizens into government decision-making priorities, an inversion that led governments to…