Originally published in the Huffington Post This is a pivotal moment for international transparency and open government. Just over a year after it was launched, the Open Government Partnership has 58 members, covering a third of the world's population. The United Kingdom is now…

Courtesy of Boyan Yurukov During a recent visit to Bulgaria, the European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes commented on the digital development in Bulgaria - both the good and the bad. The conference she attended, Digital Agenda for…

This guest blog by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, was originally posted on Wired.co.uk. Originally, the acute frustration which led me to invent the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989…

 What are you doing the day after Halloween? We are hosting an Ideathon in our new OpenGov Hub from 6:30 to 830pm and you should join us. We at Global Integrity understand that many of you have half-baked ideas that…

#wewillgather is a new platform to help people organise “good things” in their local community, leveraging the power of their online social networks.  The site has been running for a few weeks now so we thought it was time to…

gov.uk Francis Maude, the UK Government's Cabinet Office Minister gave a speech for the first anniversary of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) at a conference this morning organised by the think tank Reform. Using its status as the lead chair of the Partnership,…

Groups discuss approaches to open government during a workshop at the Open Government Camp Last week (25th September), the Danish national Open Government Camp was held in Copenhagen.  Open Government is being practised in isolated little pockets around the the…

                                    Maria Otero serves as the Under Sec. of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights. When President Barack Obama helped launch the…

On September 19th, many of British Columbia’s leading minds on freedom of information and privacy issues gathered in downtown Vancouver for the 2012 BC Information Summit. Under the moniker This Time, It’s Personal: Freedom of Information and Privacy Under Government…

This post originally appeared on Huffington Post Politics. The transparency movement has opened a Pandora's Box. It's transforming the world for the better. And now we have started, there's just no going back. But why would you want to stop…

  On the international stage, Ireland is very much a country of contrasts:  On one hand, Ireland holds an international reputation as a knowledge economy and as a global technological centre-of-excellence. On the other hand, its government is one of…

Open Government Standards is a citizen-led initiative to set standards on what open, transparent, accountable and participatory government really means. Open Government is a hot topic right now, but what does it really mean in practice? What should governments be…