Paris Civil Society Morning Welcome Remarks Good morning to you all, bienvenue a Paris and welcome to the OGP Civil Society Morning. It’s hard to believe it has been a year since many of us met in Mexico. And what…

Version Française » Exposing corruption has always been a dangerous job. It’s about to become even more dangerous, especially for those of us targeting one of the most corrupt industries - oil, gas and mining. A high-stakes sector, it is…

“The people are revolting”, goes the classic gag in Mel Brook’s History of the World Part I. Well, they are certainly angry, distrustful and fed up. When the Open Government Partnership was founded five years ago, it seemed that a…

Are we on the cusp of a global age of authoritarianism?  You could be forgiven for thinking so. The election of Donald Trump in the US, the rising popularity of the Front National in France, Brexit - the major political…

We are the known as the Pearl of the Orient - a proud nation of 100 million people, 7,107 islands, 16 billion metric tons of metallic minerals, 66 billion metric tons of nonmetallic minerals, and about a million and a…

CoST Honduras is part of the global CoST initiative, delivering better value from public infrastructure investment through transparency and accountability. Since our partnership with the World Bank to launch SISOCS, a subsystem of the national e-procurement portal in Honduras, information…

When you’re dealing with local governments or institutions, collecting data is a huge undertaking but not impossible. You just need to re-engineer government. Until recently, in the Netherlands it was impossible to gain access to financial open data of all…

The push for open government is turning into a global movement. By nature of its size and reach, the Open Government Partnership has become a central part of the movement, a place where reformers can make commitments and learn about…

    The world has just witnessed ‘charismatic’ populist politicians successfully tap a pool of discontent by promising easy fixes to complex issues to sometimes desperate people. The first outcome was Brexit, the second the victory of Donald Trump. The…

Ce blog a été publié à l’origine sur le site internet du World Resources Institute (WRI, Institut des Ressources Mondiales), et est reproduit ici avec leur permission. De nombreux pays ont pris des engagements nationaux dans le cadre des Accords…

Au cours du Sommet Mondial du PGO à Mexico City en 2015, le Sri Lanka est devenu le 69ème pays à adhérer au PGO. Depuis, le parlement Sri Lankais a adopté la Loi sur Droit à l’Information (DAI) et le…

A l’occasion de la nouvelle année, le site internet du PGO change de look, avec une mise à jour des outils et des ressources afin de mieux servir la communauté du gouvernement ouvert au sens large. Sur ce nouveau site,…