¿Quieres leer este blog en español? In ancient times, people were privileged with several chances to meet their king in the streets, who would be dressed as a beggar to talk to his citizens. “Are you happy with your king,…

This piece originally appeared on Open Knowledge Greece On the 5th of July in Athens, the open dialogue on Greece’s Third National Action Plan to the Open Government Partnership commenced where Open Knowledge Greece presented its 3 commitments for the…

NDI is pleased to launch the Civic Tech Leadership Program in collaboration with Stanford University's Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). The program aims to cultivate tech-empowered leaders and encourage cross-cultural collaboration between innovators in the…

President Obama Delivers Remarks at White House Development Day Video of President Obama Delivers Remarks at White House Development Day Ronald Reagan Building Washington, D.C. 3:35 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you!  Thank you, everybody.  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Everybody, please…

Ce mois de septembre marque le cinquième anniversaire du PGO. En cinq petites années, nous sommes passés d’une petite initiative en phase démarrage à un partenariat regroupant 70 gouvernements et plus de 2.500 organismes de société civile. Afin de marquer…

ENGLISH En septiembre de este año se cumple el quinto aniversario de OGP. En solo cinco años, hemos pasado de ser una pequeña iniciativa a ser una alianza de 70 países miembros y más de 2500 organizaciones de la sociedad…

ESPAÑOL This September marks OGP’s fifth year anniversary. In just five short years, we’ve grown from being a start-up initiative to a partnership of 70 participating governments and over 2,500 civil society organizations. To celebrate the milestone, we are making…

Nigeria just became the 70th country to join OGP. What kind of commitments are you hoping to see from Nigeria in its first National Action Plan? We are glad to see Nigeria as a member of the Open Government Partnership.…

The Regional Meeting in Montevideo marked a milestone in the history of the Open Government Partnership: for the first time four local governments from Latin America officially participated – Buenos Aires, Argentina; Jalisco, Mexico; La Libertad, Peru; and San Paulo,…

OCYGA.png En el marco del Encuentro Regional de las Américas de la Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto  celebrado en Montevideo el pasado 1 de junio, la Procuración Penitenciaria de la Nación de Argentina realizó el lanzamiento de la publicación “OCYGA - Organismos…

We, the undersigned organisations and campaigners working on freedom of information issues, are concerned by news that the World Bank has significantly downgraded its capacity to pursue a global right to information agenda at a time when the World Bank’s…

Speech by Sanjay Pradhan at the OGP Americas Meeting, Uruguay 1 June 2016 Thank you, Uruguayan government and civil society, for hosting this wonderful conference and for welcoming us so warmly on this cold morning. It is an extraordinary pleasure for…