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How do OGP participant countries interpret the ‘fight against corruption’ and ‘citizen engagement’?
When governments' efforts of promoting transparency and accountability in the governmental sector are accompanied by engaging civil society in the decision-making and monitoring processes, the achieva..

October 31, 2012

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What do we have after a year of OGP initiative implementation? (An overview of OGP progress in the post-Soviet field)
The Open Government Partnership initiative is truly popular and completely necessary worldwide, but when it comes to the post-Soviet space, its importance is hard to overestimate. The reason is prob..

October 23, 2012

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Philippines Department of Public Works and Highways makes step toward transparency
The government of the Philippines has made a big step forward in terms of openness and transparency. The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has fulfilled its promise of “full transparency ..

October 19, 2012

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Open Government: the raw material of the 21st century
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 thi..

October 18, 2012

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Update from the Second OGP European Outreach and Support Meeting in Dubrovnik
  Slinn1.jpg David Slinn, UK Ambassador in Croatia, speaking at the Second European Outreach and Support Meeting in Dubrovnik The second European Outreach and Sup..

October 16, 2012

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Open Government In Action: e-Petition platform launched in Montenegro
  OGP participating government, Montenegro launched an e-petitions platform this week (9 Oct), which will enable citizens to submit e-petitions to the Government. The website, which is yet to be lau..

October 12, 2012

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Romania lacks a Local Democracy Barometer
Barometer perspective by RangiferOnTheRoof (via Flickr) Up until now, in Romania, we were familiar with the national development plans that the EU demands according to the Cohesion Policy. These ..

October 11, 2012

2012

Civil Society, Global Governance
The events of the past two years – from Occupy movements to civil unrest and revolutions – have served to reinforce the knowledge that global governance has new paramount actors. The primacy of regu..

October 5, 2012

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‘Open’hagen: an update the Danish national Open Government Camp
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 Govern..

October 4, 2012

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Celebrating Open Government Progress on International Right to Know Day
                                    Maria Otero serves as the Under Sec. of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights. When President Barack Obama helped launch the..

October 1, 2012

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Open government doesn’t naturally flow from open information: big ideas meet challenges in British Columbia
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 Tim..

September 28, 2012

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Open Government Partnership – the UK takes the lead
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..

September 26, 2012

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