Four years ago it was pure utopia to think about an event around Open Government and its trends in Spain and Latin America. A group of young people came together and decided to create Fundación Sociedades Digitales (Digital Societies Foundation),…

The following blog originally appeared on OGP Africa. “What will distinguish the Africa’s OGP plan?” was a question Alison Tilley posed to the participants at the first Open Government Partnership Africa Regional Meeting. “We all know the common challenges that we…

Mombassa-beach1.jpg The following blog originally appeared on OGP Africa. The Open Government Partnership Africa Regional Meeting is currently underway at the Serena Beach Hotel, Mombasa, with representatives from 16 countries in attendance. This is the first OGP Africa Regional Meeting that…

Crawling pubs on a Friday night in Prenzlauer Berg, one of Berlin’s hip districts, chatting up guys in bars that have as special names as “Zu mir oder zu Dir” (“to me or to you”) and getting their autographs. This…

The compass of transparency (www.magellanopa.it/bussola) is an automated online instrument that gives the citizens the possibility to monitor, in real time, the implementation of all the data and information requirements imposed by Italian law on the websites of public administrations.…

The Open Government Partnership Networking Mechanism is pleased to announce the next Webinar on Asset Disclosures taking place on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST. We hope you can join us. Please see the details below.…

Acceder al siguiente ENLACE  para participar en la sesión 5 minutos antes del inicio Expositoras Gabriela Segovia Cantú  Directora General de Coordinación de Políticas de Acceso  Instituto Federal de Acceso a la Información y Protección de Datos, México. y Mariana…

Only a week after Hungary presented its OGP action plan in London, MPs of the governing Fidesz party initiated the amendment of the Freedom Of  Information (FOI) act watering down existing legislation by limiting access to data of public interest…

  Je suis un Québécois et je crois vraiment aux données ouvertes et au gouvernement ouvert. Il existe plusieurs initiatives qui vont en ce sens dans la communauté francophone. Les réseaux sociaux et le web 2.0 sont d'une grande aide…

The following post is one of nine articles published for a special supplement, Innovating Government on a Global Stage, produced for the Open Government Partnership in the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). To view the original post, please visit the SSIR website.  The…

Britain’s Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude delivered a speech alongside Acting South African President Kgalema Motlanthe to the delegates of the annual Government Leadership Summit in Pretoria on 2 April. While much of the speech focused on public service…

Originally posted on on 22 March 2013 on OpeningParliament.org During an OpeningParliament Google Hangout, Markus Schmidt discussed his study of the performance of the German, Swiss and Austrian parliaments against the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness. During the session, German PMOs…