This is the fourth post in our five part series of Q&As with selected countries and their experiences with the OGP process at the national level is with Patrice McDermott, Executive Director OpenTheGovernment.org, and Wayne Moses Burke, Executive Director Open…

In Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, we have taken the next step in building upon an already strong digital presence by launching our new openMontgomery platform. The platform consists of a series of tools that improve government transparency, service efficiency…

NASA Earth Observatory   Click here for a French language version of this post Looking at this map of the Earth at night published by Nasa on its website, I am struck by an interesting observation: with only a few points…

NASA Earth Observatory En regardant cette carte de la Terre dans la nuit publiée par la Nasa sur son site internet, une pensée peut frapper l'esprit: avec seulement quelques points de lumière, l'Afrique est littéralement le continent noir, en termes…

Courtesy of our friends at the guardian Public Leaders Network, the video below features Peter Ong head of the Singapore civil service, speaking about digital transformation in public services in Singapore. The video is also available on our YouTube channel. This…

This is the third in our five part series of Q&As with selected countries and their experiences with the OGP process at the national level. This post is a Q&A with Veronica Cretu, President “CMB” Training Center, Coordinator of the…

UK Prime Minister David Cameron today kicked off his country's year-long presidency of the Group of Eight Industrialised Nations by writing a letter to his counterparts. The good news for the open government movement is that it's clear that his…

This is the second in a five part series of posts based on Q&As with selected countries and their experiences with the OGP process at the national level. This post is a Q&A with Emilene Morales Martinez, independent Regional Civil Society Coordinator…

This is the first in a five part series of posts based on Q&As with selected countries and their experiences with the OGP process at the national level. This first post is a Q&A with Katarina Ott, Director at the…

This blog first appeared on the Huffington Post website. The movement for transparency and openness in government took decisive steps forward last week. As lead co-chair of the Open Government Partnership, the UK hosted the first ministerial level meeting in…

The UK's Cabinet Secretary was originally writing in The Independent about the motivation behind Whitehall's data crusade. For as many years as Britain has had a centralised civil service we have been rather good at collecting information. From the first…

This guest blog post was originally posted on the Guardian's Transparency Hub, which is hosting a Live Q&A with Jeremy Heywood at 12-1pm GMT on 4 December 2012 At the Next Web conference in Amsterdam, Hilary Mason, chief scientist at…