Macedonia.jpg “Two years ago I was in this alone and now it’s seventy of us” – said the national coordinator for OGP in Macedonia, Irena Bojadzievska, in her opening speech for the second public consultative meeting for the action plan…

Martin Tisne of the Omidyar Network in his blog The Missing Link: How to Engage the Private Sector in Open Government Partnership, discusses the nascent Private Sector Council, which was set up to provide recommendations to the OGP Steering Committee…

EPPlenaryvote.jpg This article originally appeared on Access Info Europe and has been republished with permission from the author.  Access Info Europe has welcomed the decision[1] by the European Parliament to bring greater transparency to its decision making by recording and publishing…

Poland blog.png This piece was co-authored by Kalina Michocka.  In 2013 the Polish organization Jeden Świat and the Dutch Centre for Budget Monitoring and Citizen Participation started a project to introduce budget monitoring in the cities of Konin and Kalisz in…

Oscars.jpeg This post originally appeared on ONE.org and has been republished with permission from the author. The upcoming Academy Awards is a time to celebrate the best films, actors and behind-the-scenes players in Hollywood – so why not do the…

Data Days Feb 2014.jpg   Data Days 2014, a three-day global conference on Open Data, Open Innovation and Open Government just came to an end on Wednesday evening. Central to the event was the award ceremony for an App competition…

Website www.budzeti.ba has been launched - Civil society organizations, journalists and citizens do not have appropriate access to public data - An ad hoc coalition of non-governmental organizations that advocates Open Government Partnership has been established An Open Data event…

UK OGP NAP Launch.jpg Read about how the UK's 2013-15 National Action Plan was developed, the benefits, and what we learnt:http://www.opengovernment.org.uk/national-action-plan/story-of-the-uk-national-action-plan-2013-15/ New laws, standards, policies, processes and technologies are critical for opening up government, but arguably just as (if not…

One of the privileges of our work in the Transparency and Accountability initiative is the opportunity to bring together experts from every sector working on opening government. At OGP’s London summit, T/AI helped to organize a number of events, including…

This article originally appeared on the Guardian Public Leaders Network: Open Government 2013. The London summit of Open Government Partnership produced some plans and a lot of talk – now it's time to get to work. It took a quietly-spoken,…

Carlos.jpg El día 28 de octubre se ha celebrado en Barcelona, en el Palau de la Generalitat, sede del gobierno catalán, la I Jornada de Transparencia de la Generalitat de Catalunya (#TransparenciaGC).  En este evento focalizado en la perspectiva de…

This article originally appeared on FT.com and was written by Mo Ibrahim Leaders are embracing the idea that democracy is enhanced by information, says Mo Ibrahim. We have seen a global financial crisis triggered by bad corporate governance and increasing political unrest, from…