By the Global Legal Empowerment Network Team “Open government is really about this partnership, about civil society organizations and government working together to collaborate for the benefit of citizens and communities on the ground.” Nomboniso Nangu Maqubela    …

When people think of open government, they frequently think of open data, transparency, and anti-corruption - not necessarily a fair and responsible justice system. However, open government approaches are increasingly being used around the world to improve access to justice…

Last December, during the 4th Open Government Summit in Paris, more than 20 contributors from governments, civil society organizations and multilateral organizations endorsed commitment 13 of the Paris Declaration, prioritizing improved access to justice through a focus on measurement and…

Argentina presentó su Tercer Plan de Acción Nacional de Gobierno Abierto (2017-2019), resultado de los esfuerzos consolidados en la Estrategia Nacional de Gobierno Abierto, que propone transformar los modelos tradicionales de gestión pública y la relación del Estado con la…

As a result of the efforts surrounding the Open Government National Strategy, which aims to transform the business-as-usual public administration models and the relationship between the State and the citizenry, Argentina presented its third Open Government National Action Plan (2017-2019).…

Together with its broad constituency of advocates and champions across the country, the Philippines will officially launch its 4TH National Action Plan (NAP) on 15 August. Two significant milestones have been reached at this point - the launch of the…

As citizens, we rely on public services being accessible and reliable - to give us an education, keep us healthy, make our communities safe places to be, and ensure our basic needs are met. Public services are critical to an…

By OGP Support Unit, UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub and the Asian Development Bank Ensuring the provision of good quality public services is an essential function of government and critical to the lives of citizens. Experience and evidence built up over…

The Governance Team of WRI Mexico is promoting the strengthening of a group of cities with a permanent dialogue and dynamic co-creation of knowledge and methods. These have been developed to build progress towards the integration of the main principles…

This post was originally written in Hebrew and was published on the Public Knowledge Workshop (Hasadna) blog and on Medium. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about Open Data and the Desert, in which I explained that there is…

Earlier this year, civil society members of the OGP Steering Committee (SC) put forth an ambitious set of goals we wanted to accomplish together as a Partnership, building on the direction of OGP’s new strategic plan. We identified key challenges…

As you may have seen in the recently published minutes from the June working-level Steering Committee meeting, the Steering Committee has endorsed adding a small number of additional eligibility criteria (to be possibly framed as an “OGP core values” check)…