This blog is part of a series on how open government can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The series came out of a collaboration between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Bangkok Regional Hub and the Open Government…

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…

Comment vous-êtes vous impliqués dans le gouvernement ouvert? En quoi votre formation vous a-t-elle mené à travailler dans ce domaine? J’ai commencé à travailler sur ce qui ne s’appelait pas encore le “gouvernement ouvert” en 2007. Cette année-là, la France…

¿Por qué estás interesado en el gobierno abierto? ¿Cómo es que tu experiencia te trajo hasta aquí? Yo empecé a trabajar en lo que aún no se llamaba “gobierno abierto” en el 2007. Ese año, Francia tuvo un nuevo presidente…

How did you get involved in open government? What in your background inspired you to work in this field? I started to work on what was not yet called “open government” in 2007. That year, France had a new president…

As in previous years, Global Legislative Openness Week (GLOW) showcased the fantastic work being done around the world to realize the principles of open parliament. Organized by members of the Open Government Partnership's Legislative Openness Working Group, GLOW featured more…

Originally posted on the Reboot blog. Over the past two months, I’ve had the privilege of getting to know leaders of subnational open government in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana and Jalisco, Mexico. Their passion for what they do—whether pioneering new ways of…

English version here. ¿Por qué estás interesado en el gobierno abierto? ¿Cómo es que tu experiencia te trajo hasta aquí? Yo vengo de una familia bastante pobre, así que he visto la pobreza muy de cerca, con mis propios ojos.…

Versión en español aquí. What got you personally involved in open government? What in your background inspired you to work in this field? I come from a quite poor family, so I could see poverty very closely, with my very…

In celebration of the third annual Global Legislative Openness Week, the OpenGov Foundation, Sunlight Foundation, National Democratic Institute and other partner organizations will convene a two-part panel discussion to explore the importance of open legislatures, discuss legislative openness initiatives around…

This piece originally appeared on the OpenNorth blog.  As it does every two years, the Government of Canada released its open government action plan, the third of its kind so far. And yet, for many of the millions of engaged Canadians…