Document Type: Perspective

Ines Pousadela is a researcher for OGP’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) and is a Senior Research Specialist at CIVICUS.

Since 2015, INAI has been promoting its co-creation strategy, working to gradually pave the way...

Since its creation in 2011, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) has successfully promoted open government reforms in 78 countries. Of these...

Rural citizens of La Libertad in Peru will be able to find drinking water as well as submit reports on the location and quality of drinking water in their region, following the launch of an interactive map platform.

Building on its experience supporting the co-creation of Costa Rica’s most recent action plan, which was supported by ...

The UK leads the way with a pioneering beneficial ownership register, in an effort to stem corruption and strengthen measures against money laundering and tax evasion.

Learn about the transparent, elaborate and highly competitive selection process for the Civil Society Steering Committee.

Italy’s online platform OpenCoesione publishes both budgets and expenditures of European Union Cohesion Funds and Italian National Funds for territorial development to make public spending more transparent for its citizens.

In France, the Digital Republic Law requires that all algorithms used by the government be made open and accessible to the public. Etalab has produced guidance for government agencies on the legal framework and how to publish this information, and is working on practical guidance to build public registers of algorithms. Through this work, France’s citizens can start to see how the government uses algorithms to make decisions that may impact them, laying the groundwork for greater accountability.

Ecuador forges a path to environmental justice by ratifying and starting to implement a historic agreement to protect the environment and give democratic power to its people.

New Zealand gathers all of its laws into one user-friendly website, improving access to legal information for the public.

To change a longtime problem of secrecy between businesses and the public in Kenya, the government created a registry of businesses to create open records of transactions.