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Mobilize! — Assembling an Open Data Community
Hello everyone! If you haven’t been following our blog, we recently organized the Open & Shut Conference, where we brought together a group of experts and open data practitioners to discuss th..

November 3, 2017

2017

Participatory Budgeting: Does Evidence Match Enthusiasm?
Participatory budgeting (PB) empowers citizens to allocate portions of public budgets in a way that best fits the needs of the people. In turn, proponents expect PB to improve citizens’ li..

November 2, 2017

2017

Herramientas para el Seguimiento de los Planes de Acción en Uruguay
English Version » Con el objetivo de promover y aumentar la transparencia en el proceso de seguimiento de los Planes de Acción de Gobierno Abierto, facilitar la creación de informes de autoevaluaci..

October 30, 2017

2017

Indonesia Open Government Jam: Reforming e-government, increasing public participation and renewing the spirit of collaboration and co-creation
Consistent with the efforts of having an open government, the Open Government Indonesia National Secretariat carried out the OpenGovJam on September 30th. With the topic of “Government Digitali..

October 30, 2017

2017

Una red mundial: colaboración desde Latinoamérica hasta Tanzania
Si trazamos una línea recta en un mapa, es muy fácil conectar Ecuador con Tanzania, están casi a la misma altura. Ambos países forman parte de lo que se considera el Sur Global, países en vías de desa..

October 27, 2017

2017

DataBootcamp: un boost a las capacidades para trabajar con datos
En agosto, muchos miembros de la comunidad latinoamericana de datos abiertos nos reunimos en Costa Rica en el marco de Abrelatam y ConDatos. Aprovechando ese mix de talento, organizamos un esp..

October 27, 2017

2017

El derecho a la tierra en Liberia
Tenemos casos de estudio. Tenemos seis años escribiendo blogs, investigaciones y páginas web dedicadas al gobierno abierto. Tenemos miles de funcionarios públicos y reformadores de la sociedad civil t..

October 25, 2017

2017

Food From This Soil: Land Rights in Liberia
Food From This Soil: Land Rights in Liberia
We’ve got case studies. We’ve got six years worth of blogs, research, and webpages dedicated to open government. We’ve got thousands of civil servants and civil society reformers working across th..

October 25, 2017

2017

The Participatory (R)evolution: Four Major PB Transformations over Time
Since its beginnings in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in the late 1980s, participatory budgeting (PB) has come a long way, both literally and figuratively. Today’s PB looks quite different from the original P..

October 25, 2017

2017

The Ethics of Working With Open Data in Closed Societies
The concept that sold open data was: “open all the data, people will do wonderful things, and the world will be a better place”. Has open data been sold as something more simple than it actually is?He..

October 23, 2017

2017

Trust: the tool of all tools to end poverty
Originally posted on the Poverty Alliance blog for Challenge Poverty Week. It becomes clear after flicking through the pages of Poverty in Scotland that the knowledge base exist..

October 18, 2017

2017

Open Government and OGP is not about change, it is all about transformation!
Originally posted on Veronica Cretu's blog. Whenever there is a conversation about public administration reform, open government or citizen engagement I can’t ‘pass by’ :)! I guess this is t..

October 17, 2017

2017