Content Category: Policy Resources

As local governments embrace digital transformation, they stand at the forefront of addressing critical challenges in digital governance. This paper explores how local governments can embed open government in their AI and digital governance policies, based on insights from six OGP Local members.

In Costa Rica, technology-facilitated gender-based violence, violence against women in politics and gendered gaps in public policies and automated decision-making systems are urgent challenges to democracy. This blog from ACCESA explores how to address these issues.

Data on political integrity is essential to understanding how public decisions are made. This blog explores the second edition of the Global Data Barometer, which helps reformers understand the gaps in collecting and publishing political integrity data.

This report captures the experience of public officials across different sectors on how they use beneficial ownership data in ways that go beyond anti-money laundering efforts.

Five action research projects funded by the International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) Feminist Open Government Initiative show that progress in gender and inclusion is possible when local coalitions have the right tools and allies, explore key lessons.

Open civic space is foundational to open government. This guide provides some strategies and resources for civil society actors and their allies on what can be done to remain safe and to defend civic space when it comes under attack.

In the decades-long discussion of the value of participatory and deliberative democracy, there have regularly been such criticisms of processes not being adequately empowered or connected to decision-making. This blog seeks to explore what a mainstreaming approach to public participation might mean.

The UN Global Digital Compact commits governments to making the digital space safe, inclusive, equitable, socially focused, and secure. This blog takes a deeper look at what’s inside the Compact and how it aligns with the work OGP members are doing.