The Interamerican Development Bank shares the view that the concept of open government is a platform for rethinking public management and the way governments engage with civil society. Open Government Partnership (OGP) is not just another transparency initiative, but rather…

In 2012, the City of Palo Alto designed and deployed a platform for making it easy for departments to publicly post raw data and for a wide variety of community stakeholders to access that data. In addition, this open data technology enabled…

Susan Crawford and Beth Noveck in conversation at Social Media Week New York 2013 about open government, social media and technology. Towards the end, Councillor Gail Brewer of NYC talks about the implementation of the city's Open Data Bill, coming into force March 7, 2013.…

Germany's official policy on transparency and accountability is lacking commitment and leadership. Disappointed by the political elites, the community is countinuously trying to make the case for true open government as a means to achieving digital democracy. However, the game…

The 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…

The Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC), in collaboration with the World Bank Institute, has organized a video conference for civil society organizations (CSOs) from the five Open Government Partnership (OGP) countries in Africa (Ghana, Liberia, Kenya, Tanzania and South…

Janice Charette, associate secretary to the cabinet, Government of Canada, talks about integrity in public service. The degree to which public servants are held in high esteem, she says, depends on their own high integrity, transparency and accountability. They must…

The City of Vienna was the first public agency in a German speaking country to develop an Open Government Initative and to commit itself to the concept of Open Data – an open and transparent system that makes city data available to…

On January 11-12, USAID G-3 Program (Good Governance in Georgia) organized the civil society forum (see the list of participants and the agenda) about Georgia’s participation in Open Government Partnership gathering some 25 representatives of NGO-s and government, as well…

Coming out of the regional meeting of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) held in Santiago, Chile, from January 10-11, it’s clear that the movement to open the world’s parliaments has a number of allies outside of civil society and parliamentary monitoring…

Alejandro Ferreiro: "Hemos sido capaces de definir como país lo que queremos en esta materia" Video of Alejandro Ferreiro: "Hemos sido capaces de definir como país lo que queremos en esta materia"   En el Parlamento chileno y la Comisión…

Federico Allendes, presidente de Pro-Acceso: "Los avances en transparencia en Chile han sido notables." Federico Allendes: "Los avances en transparencia en Chile han sido notables" Video of Federico Allendes: "Los avances en transparencia en Chile han sido notables" Como parte…